War Factories: Bouncing Bomb, Colt & Kalashnikov, Giant Factories | FD Engineering

The real limitation is experienced Pilots who understand tactics. U.S. Pilots flew as teams and learned to kill enemy aircraft regardless of their performance. The tactics changed with experience and advancements in Aircraft. I flew the F4E Phantom II. Taught by an Instructor who instructed me to think outside the box.

Your presentation segment on the M-16 failure rate, leaves the impression that Colt was somehow responsible. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and his cadre of collegiate whiz kids, decided that they were collectively smarter than designer/engineer Eugene Stoner. Whereas Stoner's specifications called for use of the newer conical propellant, the whiz kids changed it to ball powder that was already in supply. Stoner likewise specified chrome lined chambers and bores, that the whiz kids discarded thinking it to be an unnecessary extravagant expense. Just those two government overrides, to ball powder and non-chrome lined chambers and bores. produced carbon fouling that adhered to the interior of the weapon, thus creating a jammomatic suicide machine. AK-47s at 100yds. were far more effective over American troops armed with bayonets at the end of a M-16 stick. I would suggest that our current cultural self-destruction again sources directly back to the collegiate theoretical universe.

In all fairness you can't have factories without access to natural resources like oil to begin with. We in America had oil, Japan and Germany didn't.....in fact, that's why the war started to begin with.

Yes the Zero was a top of the line plane when it was first introduced. But, the technology was advancing so quickly at the time, two years later it wasn't so great.

The massive drop in production by the end of January 1945 had nothing to do with the bombing campaign but with the final Soviet Winter offensive that captured, often entirely intact, most of the German heavy industry on the Eastern Front.

Man I love this doc series ! Almost 3 hours ? What’s not to love !?

WE SHOULD BE HUMBLED BY SUCH EFFORTS

Brilliant Video thanks for the Upload !!!!!!

Very cool documentary, thanks for sharing this. 👍

That gentleman loves his country and his dad. I can’t imagine what it would cost to build that airplane

Arguably browning should be up there with colt and kolashnikov

I have an old car that have a Mitsubishi SATURN 4D32 engine chain type w/ sidedrop Webber's and still roars like a monster!!!

This documentary had 190 ads, be ready for them in this 2hours and 50 minutes. The normal YouTube ads that you can scip after 5 seconds. However some you can't scip which were like 13 seconds.

I absolutely love stuff made in Japan..from hobby stuff to cars ...yes Biuld a zero 😮

Shoigu reminded the west yesterday of the kalisnikov Which was interesting

The Lancaster was undoubtedly a suburb aircraft and had capabilities that were unique at the time. However, I have always believed that it was used incorrectly. It was used to do things that could have been just as easily been done by other aircraft, using it to destroy entire cities just to make sure that SOME of the militarily significant targets in that city were hit. Britain should have diverted the majority of it's aircraft production to the plane that could hit targets, and hit them hard. The De Haviland Mosquito was cheaper, quicker to build and only need two Merlins instead of four. It's speed at all flight levels meant it could actually find and hit targets with a good chance of escaping unscathed, it only had a crew of two, needed significantly less maintenance and plane for plane could probably do more damage than a Lancaster when comparing where bombs actually landed. Harris fought the introduction and production of the Mosquito in favour of the 'heavies' when a much smaller force of Lancasters could have been used only for operations that no other aircraft could achieve, the Dam Busters Raid being one and dropping of Tallboys being the obvious other. Lancasters were also ideal as support for army land forces, providing carpet bombing of enemy defensive lines as the 8th Air Force did in Operation Cobra and the Lancaster itself did on D-Day and for Operation Plunder. Using them as city-busters was, to my mind, a waste of an exceptional aircraft. Nearly 600 heavy bombers, including over 300 Lancasters, were used in August 1943 to attack Peenemunde with mixed results where a raid by 500 Mosquitos would have been devastating. Even in 1944-45 most Lancaster raids actually relied on Mosquito pathfinders to locate and mark the targets, especially after the introduction of OBOE, due to the need for Lancasters to bomb from high altitude to avoid being shot down.

This was a great video !

VERY BEAUTIFUL AND WONDERFUL... CHARMING DOCUMENTARY

Would it be in bad taste for Mitsubishi to build a sports car and name it Zero??

Great Vid , the Zero was an excellent insight into a Great Aircraft and later its Short comings , Luv Guy Pearce , but a Great vid.