The Fat Electrician: M65 Atomic Cannon - It's Real and Terrifying! Reaction

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[@dulmater]

How did the second one get the nickname "sad sack"? Lmao

[@nachtderuntoten3682]

Because it never got fired during testing.

[@raymurray3401]

If i had to make an educated guess I’d say the reason it was nicknamed “sad sack” was probably a bit of military dark humor due to the fact that unless annie malfunctioned all it got to do was sit in the corner alone while it’s “sister” got all the attention.

[@leonardchurch7675]

Sad Sack was a WWII Military Comic/Propaganda About the worst type of soldier, lazy, unmotivated, always getting in trouble. It was also the term for any Infantryman .... similar to calling someone a 'Hillbilly' or a 'Doofus'

[@HistoryNerd808]

It's a miracle that the planet survived the Cold War

[@metalavenger23]

What a great prank they played on us saying it ended.

[@justsoicanfingcomment5814]

Just wait a little bit longer.😀😅😐☢️🍄☁️😨😱🔥💀

[@charlesbryson7443]

2.0 is already on

[@BigGator5]

A 15 day turnaround is amazing and something we'll never see again.

[@lovehawks2814]

The M65 cannons themselves were produced in Watervliet, New York, a few miles up the Hudson river from Albany, at the venerable Watervliet Arsenal. One is still on display outside the old foundry building. This! This is why Canada has to stop including Albany, New York in their invasion plans! This is the sort of things made here.😂

[@Raggmopp-xl7yf]

I think it takes so long now b/c of paper-work.....and red-tape. You'd think with no-bid contracts some of that would be eliminated, but never underestimate the idiot-power of government redundancy.

[@pugsbella]

sad sack was a comic about a private in the us army at the time.

[@almasbaibolov1446]

8:38 Yeah, about that… Unlike Americans, Soviets were either less confident in capabilities of their strategic nuclear weapons or thought nuclear artillery thing that worth investment. Either way, starting from late 1960’s all Soviet artillery from 122mm to 203mm were standardised to fire special nuclear shells. Such artillery shells were marked as highly dangerous, were kept separately and were authorised to use only by direct permission of General Secretary of Communist Party of Soviet Union (equivalent of the US President). Oh, and Soviets transferred such methods to Chinese who used it until 1980’s and completely abandoned such concepts was too expensive and gave little in return. North Korea on the other hand desperately tried to get nuclear artillery shells for themselves until they developed their own nuclear weapons. And since then they also abandoned this idea. Turned out keeping, maintaining and using airborne or missile launched nukes is way easier in comparison to traditional (simpler) methods.

[@MD-gb2nf]

About rail guns... as in gigantic bunker busters on rails: the thing is... that to the east of germany number of roads is "Not many" let alone ones that could support that and number of railways was "A bit more" also contrary to what german ww2 propaganda will have you belive number of gasoline powered vehicles on eastern front was "Some, but we have 3-5 times as much horses and all the rest is walking on foot or by steam train" also one more thing: you know Karl Gerat? you know what is scarry about it? It is NOT a train... it is a very long tracked vehicle

[@nathanielrohwer4186]

If you're looking for more content to do reactions to, I suggest the Dark Documentaries series. They have channels specifically for aircraft and naval vessels called Dark Skies and Dark Seas respectively. Those two are my favorites at least. I have not explored their other channels yet.

[@dulmater]

I'll check it out

[@redactedredacted4080]

4:40 the axis powers still used horses in the second world war. It was apparently so lopsided in terms of production that Ford in 1944 built more cars that Italy built during the entire war mechanized equipment of all types. That’s not even a monstrous match that is the late war, US and versus the late war IJN. It’s so utterly lopsided that from 1940, 1945. Ships the US and commissioned more war ships both in pure numbers and in tonnage then the IJN did in all types of ships throughout its entire existence. That’s including all three of the Yamato’s. And that is just the warships for the USN. The amount of ships commission was utterly absurd. For example, there were 175 the Fletcher class destroyers commissioned. And 24 Essex class fleet carriers. When the US decides it needs more warships, we lose all of our cool.

[@thomasohanlon1060]

The Chinese were in Korea War. MacArther and U.N. troops had the "N.K. Forces" pushed up to the Chinese boarder, if china had not gotten involved the Korean nation would be one nation today.

[@m2hmghb]

MacArthur wanted to nuke the chinese as well.

[@m2hmghb]

Railroad artillery was smart and stupid at the same time. It took a company to a battalion to man them and they couldn't fire more then a couple shells per hour. However they had a range of up to 29 miles. Against heavy fortifications it makes sense. Against long range targets it makes sense - especially when you can't directly attack it. There were rocket assisted projectiles planned for the german rail guns with ranges of 93 miles that were abandoned after Operation Overlord.

[@KaoretheHalfDemon]

That video of the test firing was beautiful and terrifying.

[@SuperUltimateLP]

4:36 America didn't have a unified road network at the time, this started after WW2 modeled after the autobahn. The railroad cannons were build because accuracy wasn't really a concept in WW2 the Allies carpet bombed the shit out of Germany and by the end of the war, about 50% of the bombs dropped visually hit within 1,000 feet of the target. This is why many countries tried to build a big bomb or shell that eliminated the precision requirement by brute force...

[@anzaca1]

The US also built special nuclear shells for the Iowa-class battleships.

[@henryvandeventer2457]

The name Sad Sack could be a reference to the WWII era comic by Sgt. George Baker. "Sad Sack depicted an otherwise unnamed, lowly private experiencing some of the absurdities and humiliations of military life." Soldiers in the 1950's would definitely have been aware of the comic strip and the character

[@TheCluelessLucent]

think the fallout fatman reminds me more of a piat had a love child with an air compressor.😅 but thats just my thoughts. (piat being that spring loaded/anti tank crossbow toob thing the british and commonwealth forces used in the second world war)

[@johndunkelburg9495]

“Sad Sack” was a character in a series of informational animated shorts produced by Warner Bros who basically showed everything not to do in a given situation. The name comes from “a sad sack of s**t”, meaning something or someone that was pathetic and/or worthless. Probably nicknamed that because these things were so big that they were practically useless on the battlefield. The Sad Sack videos can be found on KZbin, for what it’s worth.

[@jaybox4284]

and sad sack got the name from never being fired and a benchwarmer.

[@frednone]

"The US didn't have any guns that big." The US Navy, "Hold my beer." Rail Guns were used mostly because they were too big for a wheeled carriage, or too heavy to move conventionally. Now if you want a really big rail gun you should do a show on the Gustav.

[@RyuUrami]

Germany invented motorways, to answer how many 'roads' were available in Europe.

[@ericmuskopf-kl4rf]

I was born in Madrid Spain in 69. The Spaniards were first generation drivers. Many GI's gave driving lessons to the civilians that worked on base.

[@dorbie]

That bazooka is the Davey Crocket and there's some great footage of President Kennedy watching its atomic test from the bleechers with a bunch of other important people with medals. Literally sitting there watching the show, wearing goggles of course.

[@charlesbryson7443]

We’ll be back to catapults and trebuchets before long.

[@skarletfenrir6979]

I have no idea how you heard about the Davey Crocket but not Atomic Annie I showed like 5 people the video he did on Atomic Annie and every 1 of them had heard of it before(though only 1 of them actually knew what it was) but none of them heard of the Davey Crocket(its the same with me I already knew about Annie but never heard of Crocket). Granted most people wouldnt have heard of either of them but I would imagine most people would be more likely to have heard of Atomic Annie since its more famous

[@raymurray3401]

Surprisingly I knew of both of them due to the history channel (back when they were focused on historical events/stories instead of making reality shows).

[@dulmater]

Honestly can't even remember when I first heard about the Crocket. Might have been a highschool history teacher or something.

[@jaybox4284]

atomic annie is parked at the ordanance museum in aberdeen proving grounds maryland right next to anzio annie.

[@HMSAtomicDreadnought]

I think it gotthe name sad sack because it didn't fire a nuclear shell P.S. I don't have a document that that said this and I came up with the reason for the name from my head

[@somthingbrutal]

when naming secret projects you really shouldn't name it anything that could give a clue to the nature of that project, just look up the Spanish governments Operation Mengele ;)

[@dulmater]

I had never heard of that! Wow!

[@jhavisto]

Have you watched the OODA LOOP video yet?!

[@dulmater]

The quackbang one? Yup! Should be in the playlist!

[@puddin94]

Funny 🤣

[@furcrafter4105]

Damn content thieves

[@almasbaibolov1446]

5:45 Eh…I believe that you meant general McArthur, because Patton died shortly after the end of WW2, in December 1945. Nonetheless, yep, McArthur was very much into using both tactical nukes against human waves of Chinese “volunteers” and strategic nukes against Soviets during Korean War.

[@Rammstein0963.]

You did it! Awesome, thanks. 😇 Imagine if someone tried to make a *battleship* shell version of this, for the Iowas....wait, I think that WAS suggested. 🤣

[@iKvetch558]

Not just suggested...called the W23...they made 50 of them, that are known to public...it was basically just the same as the Atomic Annie shell with an adapter to fit the bigger 16 inch barrel.

[@Rammstein0963.]

Most Murica thing ever...

[@chazo1367]

@@iKvetch558 how have we survived this far as a species?

[@iKvetch558]

@@chazo1367 As others have noted, quite a bit of luck has been involved...but there is also Vasili Arkhipov to thank a great deal...though, it was kind of lucky that he happened to be on THAT particular sub, so we are back to it all being a matter of luck. We should definitely be glad the US makes pretty decent safety systems, especially the fuse safeties for nuclear gravity bombs...and that US screening tests for nuclear responsible personnel were better than the ones in Stanley Kubrick's imagination.👍