The BEST Airforces in WW1 - Which Nation Had the Greatest Advantage?

Dive into World War I and explore the various air arm effectiveness in this conflict. From Russia's logistical issues, Austria-Hungary's lack of advanced air service, US contributions despite late entry, UK's technological prowess, France's aircraft production and reconnaissance superiority, and Germany's renowned Luftstreitkräfte with fighter aces like the "Red Baron," get ready to uncover the untold story of WWI air arms!
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:08 Russia
6:03 Austria-Hungary
9:01 USA
12:50 UK
16:14 France
18:49 Germany
21:57 A New Element to Warfare

[@ItzJustHistory1916]

When you’re such a badass fighter ace that you manage to sneak your way into being mentioned in two different countries’ sections that aren’t even your own

[@alexcc8664]

I had a relative who served in an observation balloon in the RFC from 14-16 then an observationist in a plane 16-18. He somehow survived 4 years in the air only to be gassed on October 28th 1918 and died just after the war

[@christianarchambault6111]

God that sucks

[@user-vo8tk5lr5j]

Another ace worth mentioning was billy bishop A Canadian who scored 72 victories over the course of the war.

[@gavintoole9325]

A Canadian shot down the Red Barron too. Believe his name was Roy Brown from near Ottawa.

[@vincentlefebvre9255]

​@@gavintoole9325No he was shot down by an australian soldier.

[@DavidHumphrey-fu5gb]

Allegedly. Recent research suggests he probably not.

[@chaowingchinghongfingshong3109]

Afaik his kills were highly inflated

[@vincentlefebvre9255]

Flying for the british empire were numerous canadians. Of the 12 greatest aces of the war 4 were canadian. How could you omit that ? Because they were just canadian or because they survived the war ? Raymond Collishaw, Will Barker, Donald MacLaren and Billy Bishop.

[@hgman3920]

I'd love to see a part 2 to this video exploring the development of air forces during the interwar period coming out of WWI i.e. which nations learned the most and did the most with those lessons in the lead up to WWII

[@TheFront]

This is an interesting idea!

[@YahBoiCyril]

Same!

[@brokenbridge6316]

I fully expected to hear about the Italian, Ottoman, and Canadian Air-forces too. Along with anyone else who put planes in the air in WWI.

[@scottmccambley764]

The Canadian Air force RCAF didn't effectively come into its own until WWII, while at the same time, still providing the RAF with 25% of its frontline pilots

[@brokenbridge6316]

@@scottmccambley764---And yet I asked to hear about all countries who put pilots into the air. Regardless if they fielded their own type of plane or not. But thanks anyway.

[@ArfiniGa]

The italian airforce was no joke either. And we also had few important aces like Francesco Baracca who's symbol was the horse that now is recognised as and official logo for the Ferrari.

[@connorgibson5224]

-Sabaton fans sweating trying not to make a Red Baron joke-

[@anastassiosmaragos7380]

Pisser hahahaha

[@Cuccos19]

Okay, correct list, but where are the Italians? Austo-Hungarian flyers regularly fought against Italian flyers over the Adriatic and the Alps. Also famously flying boats fought against flying boats over the Adriatic.

[@paulwoodman5131]

The French air forces may have not used multi engine craft effectively, but Germany, in first place here , did field some iconic multi engine planes.... AFAIK since it wasn't mentioned.

[@BobBob-sb3zv]

This is meh and all, but where's Italy? Literally the first country to use aircraft in combat in history (1911 Italo-Turkish War), and the creator of it's most important contribution to the aviation of the allied forces, effective large, multi-engined bombers, such as the Caproni's, vital for tactical and strategic bombing and used by many allied nations on important missions?

[@brokenbridge6316]

I heard in a documentary that whenever a Fighter pilot in WWI spent a day off his mind was always in the air despite what he might've been doing physically. Which really says something about their dedication.

[@nemesis7774]

It's always harder to compare aces by killcount in this era, because for example french rules on kills needed to witnesses to confirm an aerial kill, so some aces like Fonck or Nungesser might have more kills if we took the ones they didn't have two witnesses to prove them. I think the rules on german kills needed less witnesses. I'm not trying to say that aces of one side or the other were better, but that it's hard to compare with hard data when the hard data is not really the same from one side to the other...

[@Parocha]

I believe the German Air Service was also strict in the verification of claims before officially awarding the “kill” to the pilot. Confirmation had to be provided by another pilot, ground units or physical evidence; I believe Von Richthofen himself landed his plane a couple of times to get a souvenir from a downed aircraft in order to verify a claim.

[@chaowingchinghongfingshong3109]

​@@ParochaYeah, the also took photos of downed aircraft

[@MystiXash]

OMG THE YASH IN EDITORS IS ME

[@MystiXash]

Gon put my own comment in comment of the week section for next video

[@ChillyMole]

Who are you? 😂

[@TheFront]

@MystiXash 😂

[@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311]

About 30 years ago I went to a function at the German Embassy in Berkeley Square. The Ambassador at the time was Hermann von Richthofen, the grandson of the more famous WW1 personality.....

[@Parocha]

Imagine what would it feel like to say you are related to the Red Baron ❤

[@skyden24195]

I have no qualms against the given list. The explanations for the ranking makes sense. I'd even add, as I'm sure others probably have or will mention, that Germany even developed the first planes to have weaponry synchronized with the propeller rotations which prevented self-inflicted damage and made aiming the weapons as easy as pointing the front of the airplane at the intended target. A major advantage in dogfights.

[@klamlk7466]

17:03 did he just say "streets ahead"?

[@csonracsonra9962]

AS I EAT A RED BARON FROZEN PIZZA(WHICH IS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS AND BEST TASTING) WHILE WATCHING THIS, I WONDER HOW THIS HAPPENED😅

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Thank you for sharing this incredible content. (The front) channel is always the good 👍🏻

[@ThePoobird]

I'd like to hear more about the Italians and Ottomans but otherwise great video

[@Wykletypl]

Fokker D.7, Sopwith Camel or SPAD 13. Let the battle begin.

[@Of_Your_Volition]

It’s almost a mythical dance of mortals in machines as they fight to the death.

[@johnryder1713]

There was never a time when you wonder more when pilots who took to the air in a canvas and wood box would have made of modern technology of air war, not just the planes but the weapons and Radar, etc

[@microwavegommmm916]

Great vid boys, amazing how fast technology progressed in just 60 years. War has been the biggest driver for advancements

[@dashinysnorlax7720]

Good question

[@indianajones4321]

Well done

[@aguywithahelmet]

They possibly named the main character of All Quiet On The Western Front after the pilot

[@marcbrown9413]

Yeah, caught that too! You might be right about that but it is a rather common name in Germany. Interstingly enough though, the word itself means "bold and renowned."

[@dubaikay5871]

Also hope for A video about ww1 or first tanks per nations like The Mark 1 and sturmpanzerwagen

[@The_whales]

Llya-muroment in real life: too big of a target, poor escorts, and lacked train pilots Llya-muroment in battlefield one: killfeed overloads with one pilot smashing half of the enemy team on the control point

[@Xenophaige_reads]

The wright brothers had the first manned powered flight. The first powered flight actually occurred in Chard, Somerset in the UK in the 1848. An unmanned aircraft built by a man called John Stringfellow.

[@alissondourado5140]

The first manned powered flight was made by Santos Dumont on Paris

[@salvadormuro7346]

I always learn something new 😎 Still miss old intro 😢

[@tylerschofield]

“We consider satellite surveillance as futuristic warfare” Errrrrr no we dont? Who on earth things satellites being instrumental to warfare is “futuristic”?!? Like you said, its been a thing for decades. Since the 1970’s

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

It took 50 years for man to reach from biplanes to jets...

[@josephstalin8684]

4:57 Where can I find this quote (What's the source)? I'm genuinely curious and astounded by this.

[@TheFront]

Hey there! That's a quote from Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich. This article mentions the quote directly: This is the article with the direct quotation

[@josephstalin8684]

​@@TheFront Did you perhaps forget to link the article/source or is that literally the name of it?

[@jangrosek4334]

@@josephstalin8684 I would not be surprised if this phrase has the same origin as the words of Nicholas 2 of the uselessness of soldiers’ helmets in the Russian army.

[@johnryder1713]

When you think how soon it was, only 11 years since the first powered flight, and now the technology was used in war really it wasn't as long a time since software and computer virus technology was first invented to when it was used in war

[@jeffreybeckham1130]

Whatever happened to "The Braved"?

[@davidskala8738]

Italy deserves to be on the list 👇

[@liveseldiesel2628]

thats true so many are born in one day how many planes are made today

[@leonardkrol2600]

I note that you did not mentioned the Italians.

[@222jakub]

You are actualy wrong with patent for parachute... first guy that came up with parachute was slovak with name Štefan Banič

[@majkl4801]

Štefan banic was hungarian

[@patrickmiano7901]

Some aviation historians say Roland Garros was the first French ace.

[@Parocha]

I’ve read the same. In fact, he got captured right after his fifth air victory after the bullets from his machine gun struck the propeller of his plane and was forced to go down. This was before the development of synchronization gear, and all they did was bolt armor plates onto the propellers to deflect some of the bullets.

[@easyganer]

The 3 cross 😅

[@ekdromoi8408]

YOOO aviation

[@tobingallawa3322]

Thank you for the excellent content, always good. Ze Germans had it all industrial capacity, engineers, pilots. No surprises, 1 and 2 who else would it be?

[@felipescheuermann1736]

First slingshot flight😂

[@Parocha]

Another point in favor of the Germans: they had the best early air combat theorists: Boelke and Immelmann.

[@akumaking1]

MAN AND MACHINE, NOTHING THERE INBETWEEN!

[@beepboop204]

[@Gibbo81]

Italy? ☹

[@victxbr]

Cited and Credit two guys who plane with a help of a Catapult, but doesn't cited and Credit the Brazilian French inventor who literally invented the first Airplane (Capable of flying without be shot by a Catapult). You guys really disappointed me with this one

[@stuartahrens6775]

See how it always comes down to Technology because if your men fighting weather it's the army Navy or Air force. The people building the plane's from start to finish had to make sure that the German guys in the plane's had a chance by making use of the best scientific brains from the hole country. And in 20 between the first and second world wars you can see the big jump in Technology of most countries especially Germany. Nazi regime was one thing and the other was that the Germans still had the best equipment. That's my opinion. 🇩🇪⚔️

[@vroomvroomdaddy]

Man you sound alot like geetsly

[@Nicky-cu5mo]

I's so fuc king bored of seeing these lists of WW1 and WW2 and never seeing Italy mentioned. Who do you think the Austro-Hungarian fought in WW1? The British?

[@randystolz]

Your failure to mention North Americans like Billy Bishop & Eddie Rickenbauer betrays a bit of chauvinism, imo...

[@moin7227]

Germans being germans again