The German Wonder Weapons That Could Have Changed WWII [4K] | Nazi Secret Weapons | Spark

Just prior to the end of WWII, the German military secretly undertook a massive push to design miracle weapons such as colossal tanks and the world's first guided missiles and long-range bombers that could attack New York. The technology advanced generations in little more than a decade and the machines were on a grander scale than reached even today. Now, nearly 60 years later, a team of experts examine the original blueprints to determine if these so-called Wunderwaffen, or "wonder weapons," could have changed the outcome of the war.
This program will travel into the past to discover the fascinating details of Hitler’s wonder weapons - colossal tanks, suicide bombers and the first guided missiles. What weapons were successful and why, which weren’t deployed soon enough to give Germany the edge, and what was their ultimate fate after the war? Do the original blueprints have clues to revolutionary potential or fatal structural flaws?
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[@medwaymodelrailway7129]

Wow nice update you done thanks for sharing.

[@_HMCB_]

Is it just me or is the narration quality/level on this video sub par? When they were driving near that bomber, both parties were talking over each other. Music and background audio is too loud also.

[@rukiddinbro]

Yes, I've noticed that too multiple times. Also the music didn't fit to the genre in my opinion and commentary was bit too sensational. The cinematography was great though.

[@maalekashter5621]

Ppp

[@the_rakan]

Yep.

[@lazy_lefty]

Yeah its a pretty shit documentary tbh lol couldn't even finish it

[@thomashenebry8269]

It's both.

[@BillHalliwell]

It really was a lot of fun to see this group of ‘old codgers’, like me, play with some truly impressive 'toys'. Who wouldn't like to have a WW2 bomber and a 'crazy' Nazi 'wonder bomb' trying to 'sink' a battleship-sized piece of American desert! It was great to see these blokes having such a good time. On the other hand, the premise of this Spark documentary was based on a ridiculous, totally incorrect premise that the Nazis had, "...war changing..." cutting-edge weapons. They did not. Program researchers could have found out, in an afternoon, that it has been known for decades that, aside from the V-1 and V-2, every one of the remaining so-called Nazi 'wonder weapons' were basically useless. Obviously, unknown to the program’s producers; they missed the well-documented fact that one of the key, non-scientific, drivers of the 'Wonder Weapon' program was the Reich Minister for Propaganda, Dr Joseph Goebbels. His task was to use the myths of the new weapons campaign in dozens of newsreel films; hundreds of Nazi newspaper articles and endless radio broadcasts; all aimed, squarely at the German population, and their men in uniform, to convince them that the Third Reich was winning the war. Luckily, for the Allies and the rest of the world, Hitler became, some might say, the ultimate weapon; against the Third Reich, himself. Hitler could not resist coming up with hare-brained weapons and messing around with decent weapons development until, they too, became useless. Never being satisfied and because of his medicinal addictions, he would issue orders to change a ‘good’ weapon, into an impractical waste of money, oil and metals. Hitler didn’t like ships and was prone to seasickness so, he simply gave the Kriegsmarine the ‘scraps’ from military budgets. Hitler’s admirals could never persuade him to use their 'Big Ship - Small Navy' in a tactically beneficial way, with the only exception being the U-Boat fleet. Had he allowed the concentration of large numbers of only one or two weapons systems, say 1000 effective interceptor jets, and the 400 U-Boats the Navy desperately wanted, for instance, Germany may have had a, long-shot, chance of physically preventing US forces from reaching Britain. Planning for weapons to stop those forces should have begun as soon as Hitler became Chancellor in 1933. By 1939, it was far too late to aim for such a ‘war stopping’ force. Hitler’s duplication and diversity of many weapons programs, collectively, had little to no impact on Allied air or ground power. So it was with the ‘Fritz Bomb’; a brilliant and potentially devastating weapon but, again… too little, way too late. Cheers, Bill H.

[@worksv3]

Even if a miracle had happened and Germany created a fleet that stopped US forces from reaching Britain, that would’ve only lasted for… 5 minutes tops. The US had everything Germany didn’t, and would’ve turned the tide in the US Navy’s favor anyways, probably within a year at least.

[@williammchugh4361]

If they would have managed to perfect the Toten Core from the documentary film Shock Waves it would have made a lot of difference. They had already perfected uniforms which wouldn't disintegrate no matter how long under water.

[@yooyoolah5550]

Propaganda has its uses, then and today. Your statement has truth. Thank you.

[@nofaceshadow3106]

🎉🎉

[@johnhagemeyer8578]

HS 293 was rocket propelled, Fritz-x gravity propelled so it had to be dropped from a higher elevation. They both were flown from the dropping airplane and the airplane had to keep line of sight with the devices which made the aircraft easy to spot and shoot down.

[@51WCDodge]

Kennedy was part of Operation Aphrodite- The aim was to use war weary aircraft loaded with explosive as R/C drones. . The Mimoyecques V3 site was bombed by RAF 617 and 9 squadrons. The original patent for multi chamber artillery was granted in 18 50's to a US inventor Azel Lyman. The idea was later revived by a Canadian Gerald Bull as a 'Supergun' for Iraq Saddam Hussien under the code name Babylon. British customs sized componetes in 1990, and Bull was assinated.

[@peterthomas5792]

Were those replica bombs radio controlled, or just dumb? I didn't see any reference to flight controls, which seems to negate the whole experiment.

[@dougphillips3334]

too many ads

[@stevelewis7263]

They could have flown 1000' - 2000' higher to give the Fritz controller longer time to correct the flight path, considering the original Fritz X was controllable via remote control from the bomber.

[@homers5699]

But they didnt want to because then it would work to 100%

[@bighands69]

If they could have just had he Americans make weapons for the Germans in WW2 they may have won the war. But then again everybody wants to win the lotto.

[@nikerailfanningttm9046]

The THIRD REICH is my favorite faction when it comes to WW2. It’s their technology that makes them great.

[@HUNTERHUNTER806]

This documentary deserves billions of likes 👍🏼 thanks for uploading this masterpiece 👌

[@ronmailloux8655]

masterpiece ? Hardly over hyped sensationalism . Poor over dubbing and weapons that were never produced in quality and quantity . The R.A.F. EATHQUAKE bomb worked when it missed.

[@HUNTERHUNTER806]

@@ronmailloux8655 lol

[@dofthej8279]

What the hell. How Is this not getting clout, this Is wunderbar..

[@Beemer917]

The fritz X was definitely ahead of its time. It did have some problems though. One was that you needed a long fairly flat run in to guide it from , say , a big Junkers bomber, or maybe a Condor? Now here's where the problem part comes along. You want to use the fritz X on a large warship and the Americans at about this time had perfected their 8 in 55 automatic 8-in rifle.. I think the number was 8 or 9 rounds per minute per tube! These guns were radar guided and they had an anti-air shell available. A medium bomber on a long run in wouldn't stand a chance. Just saying. The fritz X could be used against anything so I'm sure, a very valuable weapon,and the path to the Future.

[@bighands69]

It is one of those fantasy weapons that never stood a chance in the real world.

[@briandstephmoore4910]

Had they used it as a bunker buster so to speak would of been bad for us

[@fabiosunspot1112]

The fritz was quite remarkable for a weapon it's time,it will go through a heavily armored ship and exit the bottom before exploding and not come apart is quite something.

[@bighands69]

It was just nonsense and never was going to be able to achieve anything. Rockets were effectively the least effective weapon in WW2 and were just glorified artillery without the ability to saturate a battle space.

[@maheshpatel3738]

Superb video

[@TheBabarada]

Hitler was hoping for secret weapons that could be game changer in WW2 why does that remind me of Elensky???

[@bighands69]

Who is Elensky and what are you talking about.

[@ayush21399]

God bless spark for uploading quality content

[@Skarry]

Currently watching death machines... God bless spark. Indeed.

[@scy1038]

Gods not real.

[@Thomas_Geist]

Must have been fun and expensive to make, but I without the proper weight and guidance system, what was the point?

[@ukaszhabdas9950]

He just wanted to achieve his father's goals and bomb murika...;)

[@apPaulpie]

I've seen Steve Wiper on a documentary about bismark he still looks the same :D. he is a Naval historian BTW love to see him here

[@stevelewis7263]

34:46 getting the outline is a race against time as the bomber is on it's way, the bomber lands and the bombing is the following day, so there's NO real race against time then is there.

[@4bmuhammadsyakibbinshamsul190]

3:33 imagine bring those bombs with woods carrier in a wheel like that

[@chubbydaniels1695]

Why is your latest video "history of space" not available to Nigeria

[@jasoncuculo7035]

I wrote my capstone paper for my bachelor's degree on the assertion that the Wunder weapons of the Third Reich were constructed to fool the German people into keeping up the fight because the Nazi high command knew that they would lose the war and did not want to surrender to either the western allies or the USSR as they knew that they would be executed for war crimes. Internal memos between Hitler and his Reich ministers prove this. Hitler did not delay production of the Me 262 for two years over the question of fighter or fighter - bomber, it was five months, and they knew even before that it would not change the outcome of the war. The Maus used 1,100 gallons of fuel to travel 30 miles and was impractical, The Fritz did not reach the Normandy beaches, the V-2 was too inaccurate and so on.

[@bighands69]

I do not think that was the case. Nazi Germany was a delusional socialist culture that assumed it could just assert its flawed ideas and everything would be OK. Hitler himself went all in as he was playing for broke which meant it was worth failing to achieve what he wanted. This delusion thinking was part of the whole culture of Germany at the time. It infiltrated everything from military tactics through to engineering and weapons systems. This is the exact same culture that tried to wage global war without a legitimate fuel source to act as a foundation for their industrial system or military forces. I doubt that Nazi Germany thought they were going to lose the war.

[@jasoncuculo7035]

@@bighands69 We sourced Hitler's internal memos, we know what he stated. Wunder weapons were to fool the German people to fight longer so they could escape. They stated that these weapons could not change the war outcome, and many of his generals followed orders but knew the truth and actually disagreed with Hitler or even were anti Nazi. These are historic facts.

[@bighands69]

@@jasoncuculo7035 Hitler memo do not change the fact the whole culture was delusional and such things as weapons technology was part of that delusion. Another delusion was them thinking they could take the atlantic with submarines and fighting a war with out fuel resources. You may think that there was some internal secret conspiracy that they knew they could not win but the reality was that the culture as a whole was deluded.

[@jasoncuculo7035]

@@bighands69 The Wunder weapons with few exceptions were developed later in the war. Hitler invaded USSR because he believed Slavs were inferior. I do not dispute that. However, once they realized that they were screwed .... The memos are the private onversations between high command not meant for the consumption of the masses or public. They are not therefore, propaganda. This is why they were made. This is recorded factual history. They were of course deleted to undertake such an effort in the first place Why else would a medium sized nation with significant material shortcomings attempt to invade the USSR. Insanity unless explained by flawed ideology.

[@michaelmckinnon7314]

This video is about gaining a better understanding of WWII weaponry. Would have been better if it was guided like the real thing though. If during WWII the Germans were going to have any chance of stopping the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1945, it would have been with the Henschel Hs 293 and Hs 294 rather than the Fritz-X.

[@bighands69]

They were nothing more than fantasy toys that were never going to be able to stop D-Day.

[@Kammler262]

@@bighands69 True because by 1944 the Allied had thousands of aircraft and pilots while the Germans had only a handful of pilots.

[@PacoOtis]

Thanks for the effort, but maybe five times longer than it needed to be?

[@MarkkuKoljonenwTinja]

Interesting! :D Thanks!

[@stephenkalatucka6213]

"Mommy! Nazi Santa is scaring me! He asked if I wanted a V-2 for Christmas."

[@williammcdermet6932]

Many photos and videos are misplaced. Like, B-24s being launched from an aircraft carrier while discussing Joseph Kennedy's fatal bombing raid. And, Kennedy's plane was targeting a V-2 plant, not artillery.

[@HANAAEWAS2023]

Very. Good work 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@wadepenley7380]

What would be even more awesome with this demonstration of the Nazzi guided bomb would be if they actually had a German bomber that actually dropped it. That would be an awesome air show for a replica demonstration. But that's just my thought.

[@oxcart4172]

There is a Stuka and a He-111 that have already started their restorations that have recently been sold on, so fingers crossed!'

[@boom89809]

Hitter after making the MAUS PROTOS:I want ze ratta

[@thomasnewton8997]

Both the mouse and the rat would have a devastating effect on the mind but in practical terms they were just to big and heavy

[@reginaldmcnab3265]

19:00 the ultimate breakthrough tank

[@TechnologyJunkie]

I'll second that. The topic, while interesting, is ruined by a terrible audio mix, with the music tracks overwhelming the narration and the narrator frequently walking over dialogue from the filmed subjects. Definetly needed proofing and quality control before being released.

[@poucxs9246]

whats the name of the music @ 4:15 & 6:48?

[@josephvaes6987]

i like this docu very much👍

[@genesis2936]

After WWII, the Soviets and the allies took the cream of the crop of German scientists who eventually put the Soviets in space and the Americans on the moon,Werner von Braun headed the American project to be the first to put man on the moon contributing prestige and admiration by every one. Einstein, von Braun, Oppenheimer and countless other leading scientists were a staunch “German workers party” members themselves !

[@kurikingfinance]

Germany was flooded with great scientist

[@homers5699]

@@kurikingfinance German scientists invented the modern world

[@dofthej8279]

Indeed.

[@zacksulics8021]

The Jewish Einstein was never a member of the German workers party he actually was a founding member of the german democratic party in 1918. He fled Germany in 1932 realising the Nazi were about to come to power and warned Roosevelt about the possibility of Germany making a nuclear bomb which then pushed the Americans to start the Manhattan Project. The Nazi wanted him dead and published a picture of him on the cover on one of their many papers saying not hanged yet.

[@MVC670]

The US already had the cream of the crop with Robert Goddard, and the German rocket scientists said so: "Goddard was ahead of us". It's just that the powers that were in the US didn't feed Goddard money to develop big rockets, instead shunting him off into RATO. If they had, who knows? The US could have put in the equivalent of Atlases in the UK to pop Nazi Germany in 1944, maybe? But - why?? The B-17's, B-24's, Lancasters, and Halifaxes were doing a bang-up job of it themselves.

[@zillsburyy1]

the henschel 293D had tv guidance

[@if6was929]

40:10 With this team, only a fool would take that bet!

[@Thomas_Geist]

The ME-264 bomber looks a lot like the American B-29

[@bighands69]

The B-29 was based on US aerospace engineering from the early 1930s and ME-264 was designed in the late 1930s.

[@fionawimber1028]

If it wasn't for the D-day invasions in '44, there is no way the Allies would've been able to make Germany surrender in '45. If that landing was delayed by a year (which could have happened if we lacked just one particular ship) we can be certain that Germany could have gotten its wonder weapons off the ground. And the war would have ended very differently. So, all I can say is thank you RMS Queen Mary for preventing this horror from coming true!

[@BarryE48]

This would have been a wonderful documentary except that the "music (noise)" makes it very unpleasant.

[@karlbark]

😮 (I just wanted to say that) (😮) I'm really impressed with this video. (Just to elaborate, I was born in 1968 -and I have been really lucky in that - I have known many, many people who actually lived & experienced WW2. There was a great deal of activity here in Iceland 🇮🇸 ...but I have also lived in Norway 🇳🇴 for many years. Iceland 🇮🇸 - was occupied by the British (& then, later, by the Americans). But Norway 🇳🇴 was occupied by the Nazis. So I have gotten to know people.. ..both sides....

[@bikenavbm1229]

excellent well done all

[@RogueAngel97]

To summarize, the Nazis didn't have time to perfect most of the experiments. Just imagine if they had an additional couple of months to work......

[@mrtim5363]

Sinking the Tirpitz was helped by bombs that 'missed & hit the water'. When Wallis's, Tall Boy bombs exploded underwater nearby they created a shockwave, & the Tirpitz felt it. We now know 'the underwater bomb blasts buckled her hull'. (45m) 150' That ship ain't safe. You could easily crack the ship's hull, it's a HIT ! 👏

[@jyjimbugi]

i wanted to hear the man tell the story, the f****en background track was so loud?

[@master-rx8mc]

Hitler was mentally insane,his generals new this but was too scared to do anything about it,apart from A small few brave generals that nearly succeeded in his assassination,god rest there souls👍👍🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@annamosier1950]

have been to that museum in Arizona a few times

[@oxcart4172]

So, they built 2 replicas of guided bombs the weren't guided? OK...

[@christepherbatts3446]

Additionally.... The sandy haired , bearded fellow has a strong resemblance to the gnome on the early VERNORs ginger ale bottles until its removal in the. Late 90s.

[@infantryattacks]

Hitler was always hoping a wonder weapon would reverse his declining fortunes. But there was no panacea solution to the fact that by the end of 1941, the Third Reich was fighting a military-political-economic alliance that Germany had no hope of defeating. As one Luftwaffe pilot remarked in 1944, "You can't declare war on the world and then expect a few fighter wings to sort it out." The same applies to King Tigers, Me-262s, and guided antiship weapons. Indeed, given the state of the overstretched and battered German economy and industrial base by late 1943, Germany probably would have inflicted heavier losses on Allied shipping if it had invested more in magnetic-influence mines than guided antiship weapons. By 6 June 1944, Germany had made significant strides in developing ever-more effective antiship mines, but these types of defensive weapons had a low production priority because Hitler and his minions were mostly focused on developing offensive weaponry. Accordingly, very few of the more effective antiship mines were produced and deployed along the coast of France prior to D-Day.

[@radzewicz]

The B 36 was not a WWII response. It was a cold war nuclear capable response. And it first flew 8 August 1946, entering service in 1948.

[@williammchugh4361]

what we've discovered is, they missed the non-moving target twice in great conditions without anti-aircraft fire. So, in this case it wasn't an effective weapon. But it did manage to hurt some sand and possibly killed a couple lizards.

[@christepherbatts3446]

Quite interesting..... Yet; did anyone else observe that one guy truly looked like peter sellers" police inspector" in the pink panther movies? 😀😃

[@annamosier1950]

good job

[@wewillovercome5834]

so tell me why the peace maker is an inflatable? take a close look at it just before the 10 minute mark and tell me thats not an inflatable

[@fulgosogotham2427]

Its a memory of the cruel war

[@Spartanm333]

Thanks for the video and your work on it. For a counter point, let's not forget that the British also had a good deal going on tech wise. Notably Barnes Wallis bouncing bomb and the incredible dam raids, structures the German's claimed were impregnable to aircraft attack. Also the conversion of the Lancaster bomber to carry the most effective bomb of WW2 - the 6 tonne Tall Boy that sank the Reich's greatest war machine, The Tirpitz and severely hampered Atlantic operations. And then the Grand Slam (10 tonnes) deep-penetration earthquake bomb which required another Lancaster conversion and a new bomb sight which provided unrivalled damage and accuracy for the period. These are technologies that Britain managed to deploy effectively, unlike this German tech that had great expectations but were poorly realised. Like the ME 262 - incredibly fast, but no range and too expensive / reliant on specialist fuel. And that's the point, the technology has to be effectively deployable.

[@reycollazo5362]

+

[@bighands69]

America had more innovation than Germany, Britain and Japan combined.

[@faharraza9620]

The v2 was very distractive

[@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13]

Die Glocke may have changed the outcome of the war... Or maybe it did.

[@mikeblazey3906]

Is the music nessy at 17-18?

[@mikeblazey3906]

17.18

[@danr1920]

D Day didn't happen until the Allies had control of the sky. Even with a perfected guided bomb, they had hardly any aircraft to drop them with. The same old story, if only more jets, more tanks more etc.

[@bighands69]

The reality is that it takes lots of time to build the infrastructure to carry out such an invasion. Germany realized that it simply did not have the resources to do it them self to invade the UK. Japan had the same problem. Only the US had the resources to conduct large scale invasions in WW2 and carried out several of them through out the war in both Europe/africa and the pacific.

[@jacobsparry8525]

Well I haved now watched it this video and I remember it they acshully dided to hit at least one of ship ined WWII and I thinked they dided all so to sink one dided they not? I thought it I saw a film of them to sinked a destroyer or was just that of my imagininged it?? The one whiched I do remembered was having a wires guider on to it so could it geted steered. Haved I dreamed it that?

[@normanhills8603]

if you would not place noise (music) with the presentation i could here the words

[@markrowland1366]

The Fritz 10, was radio controlled and the Allies were able to defeat that. At Anzio only one ship was lost to the many used during that invasion. That is a story I'm waiting to read.

[@daniald8986]

I don't need a robot to tell me histories and the audio is sickening!

[@qmarceloq]

badass

[@jimclymer4795]

I think it ok. I gave a donation. Now much but hope it helps.

[@christepherbatts3446]

Yes ..yes..no relevance , I am aware. However, I was a trained observer; early in my military career.....certain skills ; cannot be unlearnt!

[@jacobsparry8525]

Hello I am Jacob and I am at 14 and I haved a question whiched did I thinked of when dided the bomb camera guy did to show of how the littler camera would geted extractored fromed the bomb. How it will geted pulled out of the bomb is reminded me of how did it they geted lite of tanks and armors cars and logistical pallets on to unimproved of air crafts run way places. The camera set uped is sort of liked a LAPES extractor only very much of higher altitudes….right? Or haved I geted it as wronged? And all of ready am I knowing it I writed difrenter. At when was I at 11 I geted my head craxked and I geted a TBI. I haved to haved a brains opiration and now do I haved little of aphasias brains damagings whiched haves leaved me as muted and haves wrecked how cand I writed it stuff and readed stuff and walked good and others stuff . All ready do I know it so do you not haved to call to me a retard and all of that others stuff to castigated me. Only it does to wrecked how cand persons communicationed and still I amed pretty very smarters. I go at a magnets school and I haved grades averaged at 3.67 My helpers are not being at here for doing it some of edited stuff for me be caused it is on to Sunday. Sorry ifed you haved troubles for readed it well.

[@brewiy8149]

If you are talking about how they got the smaller camera out of the bomb then what they did was they strapped a parachute to it so before it smacked the ground it would detach from the bomb and glide down safely.

[@jacobsparry8525]

@@brewiy8149 Thanked you for answering backed to what haved I asked. I writed it that as liked all of most 3 months ago so will I haved to watched agained it to maked sure and thened I will tryd for sended backed to you a answering. But thanked you for answering to me. Mostly just do persons ignored me or called me names.. I amed very of fascinated by many of stuff but be for was I a orphaned my father and too my grand of father, my REAL of fathers, were being as missiles engineers to at Aerojets / Rocketdyne and my grand of father dided to helped works on to Polaris SLBM series of nuclears missiles and too dided he worked on to NERVA Project of nuclears engines for spaced crafts and my father dided to work on to Standards Blocs missiles and motors for Patriots and ASATs and some stuff about it THAADs motors stuff. It does to interested me about it how all it did geted to start I GUESSED OF IT BE CAUSED of my fathers dided to do it that stuff at here ined USA very later.

[@brewiy8149]

@@jacobsparry8525 Very cool! Some people in my family also worked with missiles and rockets.

[@knuppel8875]

too bad they didnt run on coal, so germany could actually use those toys :')

[@jeanpauls123]

the Intermittent Rock Music is annoying, might be ok when they are changing location but not in the middle of someone talking.

[@shaynecraig]

Awful audio

[@cliffbird5016]

Britian had advanced weapons as well. like jet fighters in 1933. 2 squadrons of gloster whittle jets hidden away in Ireland. never released for action. They could of ended the war a lot earlier as Germany had nothing to counter them. Atom bomb built and ready to use in 1933. never used cause it would of ended the war too soon and they didnt have enough resources to build more than 1. But they did send it on a Lancaster bomber to bomb Tokyo in 1945 but the plane got recalled 2 hrs from target as japan had surrendered. 2 weeks later USA dropped its 2 on Japan 2 weeks after Japan had surrenderd. Bouncing bomb used in the dam busters raid built and ready to use in 1933. That raid was planned in 1930 3 years before Hitler got into power. the atom bomb program started in 1930 as well. Giant guns built in Dover in 1930 to hit targets in France. the biggest 1 could hit Paris from Dover. Bigger and loner range than the German guns. Manchester bomber could fly from UK bases to Moscow and back and drop bombs so could hit any city in Germany. that had 2 engines and carry double the bomb load the Lancaster could carry. But it had engine probs and they kept catching fire so the engines were swapped for the merlin engine which reduced its range and bomb load and they needed 4 merlins to get off the ground. with the merlin engines they renamed it Lancaster. the german guided bomb needed 2 planes to use it. 1 to carry the bomb the other to guide it. It used radio control to guide it so the 2nd plane had to guide it and to keep it on target. it wasnt very accurate. the British version only needed 1 plane and used radar to guide it to target. that was the 1st fire and forget weapon.

[@topspeed250k5]

Mate, "would of", (like could of, should of, must of) is not a thing. It comes from hearing " would've " which is a contraction of "would have". I jumped, I have jumped, I would have jumped but it was too far, I would've jumped...etc Sorry to be that grammar Nazi PITA but correct English sounds educated & helps the credibility of your argument, & bad grammar detracts from it

[@bighands69]

Britain never had the atom bomb it had theories and science in regards the field but not actual working technology that would allow them to engineer such a system. Building the atom bomb required advanced material science, advanced chemistry/physics, control system engineering, high output manufacturing and extremely deep pockets to keep attempting it over and over with hundreds of failure points.

[@MikeYm98875]

​@@bighands69Britain was set to be first to get the atom bomb Tube alloys was the world's first and most advanced nuke project Without British help the USA wouldn't have even been able to drop on Japan in time The manhattan project was literally 50 pervent British, look up the quebec aggrement

[@bgc4637]

ALL A DREAM.. ONLY 2 GERMAN PLANES WERE AT THE BEACH HEAD

[@notyermonkey2134]

Fortunately for these Guys, they weren't on the Fuhrer's team.

[@harrytuttle4069]

"a flappy wood model fly the same as 2 tonne metal dart." Cool story Bro.

[@annamosier1950]

it is ok

[@annamosier1950]

they named the guns

[@davidwoods7408]

Footage from the Doolittle raid? Really? The graphics for the V-3 are also wrong. Sloppy. Sloppy.

[@reginaldmcnab3265]

6:20 it was not destructive fantasy! When other countries took those same weapons and developed them is a destructive fantasy too

[@bighands69]

What other countries could you give an example what you mean?

[@reginaldmcnab3265]

I will have watch the video again.

[@andrewnicholson4811]

11.30 go through ??!! they mostly just went around and between them .... the maginot line was a joke !!

[@fabiosunspot1112]

I think that the fritz x was one of the best weapons of ww2 but the Germans didn't apply it properly,too little too late.

[@terminusest5902]

If Hitler been nicer to the Jews they could have helped developed the nuclear bomb. But the Jewish scientists went to the US and built the bombs. The allies would have more bombs in 1946. By 1950 the US had 300 bombs. US and British jets were deployed to Europe in 1945. Apart from oil, one of Germanies and most significant shortage was in competent pilots.

[@ronelaugustin7484]

Awesome

[@nofrackingzone7479]

Changed the outcome. Short answer no, long answer nooooooooo. Lol😂

[@larsulrich3356]

and the allies could have shelled the beach before landing. Why didn't they?

[@npc.no1]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think they'd did

[@jakhaughton1800]

Wailway twacks?

[@iamarobotninja]

They are as annoyed as I am with him saying "nose heavy" 753 times

[@michaelwackers6475]

Laughable gargantuan tanks! Stuka ace Rudel however did sink a Russian battleship!

[@richarddetlaff-gc3kk]

These weapons were ahead of their time,but were a dollar short and a day late.....numbers and fuel win wars

[@johnnynephrite6147]

Maus means mouse, not "rat".

[@spartan-s013]

most ''disgusting'' weapons!? you wanted to say the most ingenius ones

[@zhoubaidinh403]

57 yards ain't gonna cut it...when u deal with America, you deal with d best, gotta' be in the smoke stack!

[@annamosier1950]

no tank has a.c. or seatbelt s wow

[@thanhleusacuocsongmy8168]

Germany and Japan already lost WW2 once America joined the war!

[@sagarpuna2896]

lol it took three superpowers or you could say top5 of the most powerful countries at that time usa,uk and ussr both combined power to stop germany from winning the world war 2 and also germany had far weaker allies than allied powers. only thing germany wer e laking is natural resources such as oil,etc but even yet they fought over many countries single handely . at that germany had best army in the world , best aircraft at the early world war 2 , decent navi, japan had the best navi power , if only hitler could have not attack too many countries at the same time then germany would have won the world war2 and we all were be speaking germans.

[@thanhleusacuocsongmy8168]

@@sagarpuna2896 Not a chance, the countries that got invaded by German and Japan in WW2 were either colonies of the West or weak European countries at that time. Even Russia was weak and ill prepared in the beginning, and the US did not mobilized until after Pearl Harbor. By 1944, it's all but certain Germany and Japan had lost the war but they refused to surrender so they got destroyed. Germany got separated & Japan got NUKES for good.

[@michaelwackers6475]

And megalomaniac Hitler declared war on the USA! LOL

[@michaelwackers6475]

@@sagarpuna2896 Thank God!

[@bighands69]

@@sagarpuna2896 3 Super powers? You cannot possible mean the USSR and UK?

[@kerentolbert5448]

If, would have, could have. Glad we don't have to see it. Can only play games with the revision of the unchangeable.

[@savagex466-qt1io]

Are you sure Hitler never played Warhammer 40 000 ?

[@awafall3942]

Kone nex de 998

[@karloimmanoel]

Nice

[@agwhitaker]

Over-rated weapon, Yankees figured out pretty quick that the bomb was controlled by watching a bright flare in the tail and steered it by radio control. Smoke screens and radio jamming made the bomb go wonky. A further issue was the launch aircraft had to fly slow-straight-level while the operator guided the device - hard to do during heavy flak or fighter attack. As far as sinking the battleship Roma, I suspect a lot of the Italian crew were too busy celebrating the end of the war to look up in the air.