Discover the bizarre world of German Wunderwaffe – wonder weapons – in WW2. From the sun gun that could burn cities to the gigantic tank never built, see the costliest and most eccentric projects that fell short.
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Where is the V3 project?
the horton 18 desgin would become the base to the american B2 bomber. the Horton 229 was the only working Prototype for the flying wing known to exist and survive the war.
I love your choice of subjects, very interesting approach!
Imagine how many millions of dollars worth of content these creations have made.
There is in fact evidence of Nazi germanys flying saucer.
why didnt you include the DG-2?
800 mm caliber??? Lol
Supposedly, fairly early in the war [1940? '41?] a wreck of a lend-lease plane provided to England w/ Pratt & Whitney radial engines was salvaged and given to Luftwaffe engineers to evaluate the American technology. When asked for their analysis, the engineers informed the higher ups that the American engine was made to tolerances that German industry couldn't match, and did not leak oil the way their radial engines did. The executive summary was "We've already lost the war…"
Imagine if Third Reich Germany had been able to mass produce even half of what had been designed, and it worked the way they wanted it to?
How about an episode on Kurt Diebner, and his supposed atomic bomb? The one that equally supposedly took down telephone systems with EMP, and put several senior SS officers in hospital with terminal radiation poisoning.
Interesting story, if true.
A lot of the wonder weapon myths were from nazi scientists making shit up so they could get work with the allies.
Flying saucers were real. You can see them in the documentary "Iron Sky".
Our famous german scientist Axel stoll mentioned them often in his lectures. According to mr stoll germans flew in them to Uranus in the forties. ☝️
Like your videos Simon!
No evidence of flying saucers or ufos….Simon, hold my beer.
I admire Simon's courage to keep talking when somebody is firing a gun in his general direction.
How to spend all 90 percent your resources in few years for unproductiveness
Keep Calm, We're Back. The West is Rising.
The H class: the H 42-H44 were just concept studies to see how large a battleship needed to be to carry enough deck armour against the latest and heaviest armour piercing bombs. Nothing more than that. The "designs", if you can even call them that, did get these oversize heavy guns was just as a space/weight filler, no one ever seriously considered arming vessels with these guns. No one in fact even considered designing or even building such guns.
That the H42-44 are just some concept studies is clear from the only original document where the parameters of these designs are listed. After the attack on Tirpitz with the 5 ton Tallboy bombs the document ended with mentioning that in regard of the latest use of 5 ton armour piercing guns, any even conceptual study to armour ships against these weapons was useless adn one were done anymore.
the rest of the H class "history" is internet-modeller-people not doing any research lore……
The conversion of Europa into an aircraft carrier was never started as the design was never actually completed: Adding a hangar and flight deck to the existing hull created so many strength and stability problems that could not be solved and the study to convert Europa was abandoned. No work was ever done on her to convert her.
With the German navy, they were always on to a loser. At the beginning of the war they could have done with more submarines, or more Deutschland class surface raiders (like Admiral Graf Spee). But whatever they would have started to build in quantity before the war as well as during, the British would have noticed and proceeded to build more countermeasures (anti-submarine escort ships, aircraft carriers and fast long range battleships). And seeing as the British had a huge head start in the number of ships (even though many of them were old), Germany could never catch up.
Imagine how scary Germany would be if they did manage to develop a nuke. With the V2 as a delivery method they'd be getting close to having ICBMs decades ahead of anyone else. And I don't think Hitler would've hesitate to use them either. With the frontlines, the UK destroyed and with the US developing their nuke it would become a battle of who could deliver such a weapon to the enemy first. With the V2 insufficient for this range on its own it would need to be launched from a ship/u-boat. Or the amerikabomber project would become top priority for them. Not sure what timetable they would need to get all that ready though
1:07 This is literally the first time I'm hearing about this…
Yay wonderwaffles!!
The German obsession with capital ships cost them a huge advantage. For the money, manpower and material that the ships like Scharnhorst, Bismark, Graf Spee, Prinz Eugen, etc. etc. cost, they could have built many submarines. In 1940, Germany had around 30 operational in the Atlantic. And this was already causing the British huge problems.
If, and this is a big if, they had had a hundred of them active, or more, things would probably have looked disastrous.
Maybe it's time for Simon to re-consider the Nazi UFO claims? The name in question regarding this issue is Viktor Schauberger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0PwEwLG9No
None of them were worth it, and nothing short of 10 nukes were going to stop the allies from reaching Berlin.
So jets came very close to make a big difference….
Interesting, imagine if they just focused on 1 jet fighter and making lots of em…
That would have won the air completely
James Bond, Diamonds are Forever
And now we have that maybe
The stg44 was one of the best weapons to come from the wunderwaffe program. But like the jet fighter, it came in too late
Had Germany done a better R&D job earlier in the war, the Wonder weapons might have won the war for them or at least in the Western Front for sure.
Viktor schauberger was hired for book keeping huh?
I am aware of the wonderful waffle