The Home Guard demonstrates the Northover Projector - the real Dad's Army

[@euansmith3699]

Thank you for this exemplary demonstration of this devastating addition to our national arsenal, Major Short-Cummings, Brigadoon Dragoons (ret).

[@Muppet9204]

You have done us proud there. Well done to all concerned.

[@ronnieomlettes1369]

Excellent. Well done chaps.

[@Keyswiz71]

Excellent job, well done from us at the 3rd Batt Suffolk Home Guard!

[@WgCdrLuddite]

My Grandad was in the 25th West Riding Home Guard. He was really disappointed that Jerry bottled it and never came.

[@Barneyandbobby]

He wasn't alone, my uncle was in the 19th Durham Btl HG and said very much the same.

[@komsomolzenbolzen6747]

@@WgCdrLuddite i am swiss and fairly young - would you mind to explain?

[@WgCdrLuddite]

@@komsomolzenbolzen6747 I mean that the Nazis never invaded Britain because they were scared of the Home Guard (and my Grandad).

[@MBKill3rCat]

@@WgCdrLudditeMore like they were scared of the Royal Navy and failed to gain air superiority during the Battle of Britain to secure a channel crossing. Not shitting on the HG but they weren't exactly at the top of the Germans' list of concerns.

[@gunner678]

Very well done!

[@Biffo1262]

Straight from the pens of Perry and Croft!

[@extraterrestrialfascisti7625]

Outstanding!!

[@artic1133]

neat instrument

[@chrissheppard5068]

Also known as CRAP Cheap Rubbish Antiquated Projectile. Your film however is very well done.

[@wotan20]

Everything is well, when it ends well. In this case, no one was hurt during this exercise, in spite of the incredibly cheap and crude experimental weapon involved. But seriously, after the Dunkirk disaster, where the BEF lost all of its heavy weaponry and vehicles, and a good deal of their personal weaponry too, in addition to the German U - boat menace, choking off overseas supplies and reinforcements frightfully well, the HG had to do a lot with a lot less. At the beginning they didn't have either uniforms, or weapons. It was a real progress, when they started to receive one, then the other. That is the sobering context, what we need to keep in mind.

[@GrumpaGladstone1809]

The last black powder and percussion weapon to be produced?

[@MBKill3rCat]

Something about this video seems very off. There seems to be almost no actual 'training' content, and something about the visuals make it look like it was filmed on a modern camera and desaturated. Also, none of the weapons have visible recoil, the audio is weirdly crisp and none of the soldiers are, well, acting like soldiers.

[@buckthegoth]

Seriously man don't know if you are sarcastic or what, but it's a spoof video done by a modern re enactment group replicating a 1940s Government training newsreel.

[@MBKill3rCat]

@@buckthegoth Oh, is it? I came here with no knowledge of the channel, wanting to learn more about the Northrop Projector. That makes a lot more sense, thanks for enlightening me.

[@buckthegoth]

Sorry if I was a bit rude, but sometimes it's a bit difficult to decipher people's comments in whats genuine and what's snarky. The video was very well made in trying to replicate a 40s training film. Just the film quality gives it away ( I watch alot of British Pathe films)

[@chrissheppard5068]

@@MBKill3rCat You would defo fail a snipers course.

[@MBKill3rCat]

@@chrissheppard5068 Ok? If you say so? What does that have to do with anything?

[@mashbury]

Whilst a commendable effort in making this film i do feel the poor tactical deployment of the troops and frankly unrealistic firing stance of those shooting does give a poor impression of the more professional " Real" Home Guard.. I see what is meant in the video but the acting is poor and needs to reflect the real men who served in the HG .. Many experienced soldiers of the Great War. If this was a display at a public event i'd walk away after 3 mins. As it is i skipped the slow parts

[@snowflakemelter1172]

The gayest pistol shooting at 8:30.

[@alexanderk.4077]

At 8:30 the video ends, although I see what is meant

[@stephenhicks7632]

Standard revolver shooting stance pre second war.

[@AndyPawlakOfficial]

imagine this lot against a squad of german paratroopers. its laughable.

[@myyoutubechannel5848]

Their purpose was to slow the advance of an attack not stop it, they were cannon fodder. The war game conducted on paper conducted by Sandhurst Military College with former German commanders running through the Operation Sealion battle plan used the Kent Home Guard with good results. Sure the Kent Home Guard was annihilated but the Germans wouldn't have made it past the first stop line so it can be said there was definitely good value in having the Home Guard.

[@yereverluvinuncleber]

Don't talk rubbish. A volley of .30" from a Home Guard Volunteer is just as effective against a paratrooper as a 7.62mm. It just has to hit. The LDV were expected to harass in the rear, nothing more. Almost all were experienced older men who had served in WWI. They knew how to handle a rifle, grenade and had been subjected to battle before. Honestly, your ignorant comment tells us nothing but the limit of your knowledge.

[@mrdoggo6094]

Better than nothing!

[@Barneyandbobby]

Fallschirmjager were extremely vulnerable when they landed because of the technique they used at that time . Most landed without any firearms on them and those that were armed had the inferior Luger, and that was underneath the smock and parachute harness and difficult to get out quickly They still had to locate their drop cannisters and recover their Kar98K's, MP38/40's, MG34's and grenades before conducting any attack on the Home Guard. If the HG could stop them getting to their cannisters there was very little the Fallschirmjager could do, they would've either been dealt with or contained until the regular army showed up. And you have to remember the mindset of the HG in 1940, they were defending their homes and their loved ones from the "murderous Hun". Just because "Dad's Army" portray the HG as bumbling old fools, don't be fooled into thinking they were. Dad's Army was using the experiences of the HG, who according to most of whom were part of it, had "the most fun in the War".

[@alritedave]

It's designed more for anti-vehicle work AFAIK. I can't imagine it would do a whole lot even against a Panzer II. They'd of been better off bodging together an anti-tank gun out of old car/trucks parts and hydraulic pipe.