I would like to note, this isn't the first time this has happened and the woman who did it became a saint.

@captain-commander8138

10 ай бұрын

Ya with pigeons if I remember correctly

@carissamace

10 ай бұрын

St. Olga of Kiev.

@Bluelyre

10 ай бұрын

@@carissamace The best saint.

@mekelwander6551

10 ай бұрын

So is she the patron saint of firebombs?

@Gerald-Slayers

10 ай бұрын

​@@mekelwander6551 I believe she was the patron saint of widows and converts.

The brits are pretty nuts themselves because during the cold war they made nuclear land mines that they would bury at the german border to detonate them if the Soviet invaded but they couldn't find a way to keep the electronics from freezing so they were gonna put chicken inside the land mine so there body heat would keep the electronics worm enough not to freeze

@kc0dawnte

10 ай бұрын

FatElectrician has a video on it.

@crustybomb115

10 ай бұрын

hes got a video on that too

@johnsmithfakename8422

10 ай бұрын

The small scale nuclear weapons thought up during the war were terrifying. Fortunately they were not put into production and use.

8:01 EXACTLY, the "bomb" worked perfectly and so did the explosives. Sure the whole BASE has been lit on fire but as a test it all worked perfectly.

@gilmadreth680

3 ай бұрын

Things have gone well and truly ass over tea kettle when the Marine is the voice of reason in the situation.

If you think this was completely insane, the first guidance system for missiles was a pigeon that was trained to peck on a screen to home the projectile in on a ship. Yes this happened.

@brigidtheirish

10 ай бұрын

Yes! There was a documentary on it with *video footage!* It's *hilarious.*

@retr0bits545

9 ай бұрын

Pigeon pecking at an enemy ship: “I’m going to get my treat after this!”

Please watch more fat electrician, he's incredible

Look up his bazooka tank video it sounds like it came straight out of 40k.

@crustybomb115

10 ай бұрын

also sorta looks like one lol

Your first time seeing the Fat Electrician?... Welcome to a wonderful world of imagination! and war crimes, lots of war crimes...

The best part about this is that he didn't even mention that this tactic was allegedly used successfully before by St. Olga of Kiev. When besieging the Drevlian capital Olga demanded a tribute of one pigeon or two sparrows from each house to lift the siege, when this was provided she had her men tie brands of sulfur to their feet light them and release them all at once. The birds returning to their nests in the eves of all the thatched roofs of the city causing so many fires that the city was effectively destroyed.

@Yuki_Ika7

10 ай бұрын

yup, and i like to think that if the afterlife exists that St. Olga is giving her blessings to the defenders of Ukraine right now, i feel like it would be what she wanted

@brigidtheirish

10 ай бұрын

@@Yuki_Ika7 Why do you think the Russians have been experiencing such hilarious losses as having a *tank* stolen by a *farmer?*

@Gilhelmi

10 ай бұрын

​@@Yuki_Ika7Yes, she should become the protective Patron Saint of Ukraine. (In addition to being the Patron Saint of Widows and Converts.) I root for her every time I hear her story.

Congratulations, you've now met the Fat Electrician! May I suggest his videos on Sergeant Reckless, Aimo Koivunen, and Cassius Clay? If you want an unofficial two parter he did, go for the ice cream ships of WWII and America's cheese bunkers. Everything he does is an absolute riot.

@Tar-Numendil

10 ай бұрын

Sergeant Reckless is my favorite story ever now.

@djmagichat1721

10 ай бұрын

@Tar-Numendil I'm glad I could help give that story more exposure! I never knew about it myself, until his video dropped. His channel was a total case of "Came for the knowledge, stayed for the sense of humor" for me.

This is an example of a weapon so fucking ridiculous that no matter how effective it is, actually putting it in standard service would cause too many questions to be asked lol

If I remember correctly Fat Electrician was medic in the national guard

@MikeF_44

10 ай бұрын

correct

Yo. Personal recommendation, look up his video on "The submarine that sank a train". It was the first FE video that I watched, and it's what sold me on his channel. (also taught me a hilarious meme about electricians due to a joke he made in the video, and an explanation he put in the comment section afterwards) There is a running gag he uses however, about "Quakebang grenades", and if you want to get the joke there, find his video on "11 Bravos", and possibly the follow-up where he explains it a little further about how a Quackbang grenade is a decidedly effective weapon, despite evidence to the contrary. Also, I knew you were gonna be a fan of his simply from the fact that you almost share a catch-phrase.🤣 "Remember kids, it's never a war-crime the first time."

I mean... it wasn't even that novel of the idea. Saint Olga of Kiev did basically same thing with birds in X century

@zeanyt2372

3 ай бұрын

Yes, and that's probably the reason why they continue with this. Because, if it worked once, it could work again.

The bat bonb was never a serious idea...the only reason it even got tested is because the guy who thought of it was an acquaintance of Elanor Roosevelt...the First Lady. And the whole idea was basically dropped by the Army about 2 years BEFORE the end of the war.

@Gilhelmi

10 ай бұрын

To be fair, the Crayon Eaters (Marines) were the ones to continue it after the Army decided not to commit that many warcrimes. The Marines take everything to the next crazy level. 😊

@selonianth

9 ай бұрын

It was dropped BECAUSE of the test. And then the Marines as said went "... yea let's do this." The only reason the idea was ACTUALLY dropped was because it ended up not being necessary, as they went with the nuke instead.

@panther-nk2hn

9 ай бұрын

@@selonianth Though I bet if they'd dug these designs out of the trash bin in the 60s and pulled all US forces out of the jungle, Vietnam coulda been over a couple days.

@selonianth

9 ай бұрын

@@panther-nk2hn perhaps. It would've been a LOT of unecessary civilian casualties though.

@prestonjones1653

9 ай бұрын

​@@selonianth Welcome to Vietnam.

There's my history lesson I didnt know I needed.

It's never a War Crime the First Time

We need to watch out for dentists. A dentist invented the Gatling gun and Doc Holiday was a dentist.

I love your reaction of the fat electrician I hope you watch more of them

0:44 The joke you being Ferrus Manus only gets stronger with time I see

You should watch his video about the M-50 Ontos next. “The Thing”.

now do the fat electrician pigeon bomb video

@brianfite4740

10 ай бұрын

Was going to ask who wanted to tell him about the pidgeon bombs or the anti tank dog.

@crustybomb115

10 ай бұрын

@@brianfite4740 dont forget about the atomic chicken

I will always recommend his "temper temper" incident and"New Jersey sinks and Island"

The difference between genius and insanity is measured only by success.

Hey old man hope you check out his Sergent Reckless the American horse from ww2

Army here, Gulf War…I ain’t trying to tickle them to death.

Official motto of the navy: "If it makes sense, it's wrong."

A nuke could take out a city. The bat homb would have likely taken out a prefecture

@Azorees-oj5zr

10 ай бұрын

The prefecture and than some.

@crustybomb115

10 ай бұрын

a single one would probably turn an entire prefecture into ash with fires still raging in surrounding prefectures...

@Azorees-oj5zr

10 ай бұрын

@@crustybomb115 agreed.

The catchphrase "good times rhymes with war crimes." Is something that connects with me on a special level, especially as a canadian.

You neeeeeeed to binge react to him. He’s great.

Wait till he learns about the guided pigeon bombs.

We also made a guided bomb using a pigeon.

I always thought the motto of the Navy if it's broke, F it duct it all. It's only temporary til you get to shore. At least that was a normal saying my dad would say when I was growing up. Lol the last line

Had to chime in. My Uncle was an Ironworker with NJ Steel for decades... Much respect! Killer video that cut my PTSD to shreds. Thx again for what you do👍👍👍

@TheNotSoFatman72

3 ай бұрын

And the Enterprise in the background is worth a like all day...lol

When the truth is stranger than fiction!!

My favorite videos of this guy are probably the most gangster Marine ever and the gangster politician ever

I highly recommend a lot of this guys stuff. The Cassius Clay video is great.

At the same time the usa was making the world's worst stink bomb to also use on Japan

When I was in the Army we called the Marines, Navy gate guards.

Also for those who don’t the guy who invented the Gatling gun…was also a doctor…whic later became the basis for the M134 minigun and variants. And every other electrically or hydraulically driven machine gun/cannon. Let alone all the PHD’s obviously involved with the atomic bombs, then h bombs, so yeah, doctors of one kind or another have invented, or helped to invent some of the deadliest weapons ever made.

The Fat Electrician does some great videos and you should watch more. He goes over a lot of different weapons (he has a good one on the flying ginsu knife missile) and different units in the US military.

Please do his video on the A1 Skyraider it's such a good one and a good example of doing something in hardcore mode.

Behold the power of "if it looks stupid but it works, then it is not stupid" the mantra of grunts and craftsmen everywhere.

Took a page right out of Olga of Kiev's playbook. Context: Olga of Kiev did more or less this with birds and I want to say sulfur pieces but I don't recall what the payload was. She's worth watching some videos about. Burned a city with birds, buried an enemy's envoys alive, and to top it all off she's a Catholic Saint.

Theres also the soviets that trained dogs to jump under tanks to blow them up(they strapped bombs to the dogs) the only issue is the soviet tanks were diesel and the german ones used gasoline so the dogs always jumped under and friendly fired soviet tanks

As The Fat Electrician says "I's never a war crime the first time!"

Seeing as how Geneva wasn't until 1949, I think this would be safely classified as "not a war crime."

@crustybomb115

10 ай бұрын

you know what they say... it aint a war crime the first time...

Oh you werent aware of this? It was my understanding thst everybody knew The Bird is The Word. Seriously, they tried putting pigeons inside bombs to guide them.

Fun fact, Queen Catherine of Russia did the exact same thing but with pigeons

Absolutely needs to do the one on the cheese bunkers

There is also anti tank dog mines (russia) Chicken heated nuclear land mines (us/uk) Pigeon guided cruise missle (us also another fat electrition vid) And many more animal weapons

The fat electrician is great, he does a lot of naval stuff or has done. Check out his channel and check the videos he's done.

You know you're on to something when step 1 of the process is figuring out how to weaponize your raging hate-boner for small flying mammals.

13:35 I guess you could say we are bat-shit crazy, huh? 😂

Ngl I would’ve like to be born in the alternate reality where we did use project x ray over the nukes

Just wait till Oldman hears FE's various catchphrases

Just wait till you realize we also weaponized cat guided anti ship bombs and the Pidgin guided anti ship bombs that honestly would have worked

The Tyranids should have an equivalent force. Jus saying

@astroboy6515

10 ай бұрын

...maybe the Sisters of Battle should have the actual fucking thing. It's right up their alley. Or abbey if you prefer.

This has been one of my favorite stories since I first read about it. I just love how unbelievable it sounds, while being one of the scariest weapons ever created.

Both world wars had *A LOT* of crazy ideas that failed in testing or were never tested in the first place.

@Azorees-oj5zr

10 ай бұрын

The Brits attempted to make a poison to turn hitler into a female.

Maybe they called it project x-ray cause they were gonna make all the japanese buildings see through

5:18 To be fair to him, bats are extremely plentiful. They are the furthest thing from extinction. A few thousand being used for these bombs wouldn't dent the population at all.

Oh man, you've found the Fat Electrician, you're in for a treat. I stayed up until 4am the day I found his channel. If my high school history teacher had been more like him (and to be fair, my teacher was a Marine), I might have gone into military history as my major.

If you think that the Marines' Project X-Ray is bonkers you might want to look at the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Operation Aunt Jemima.

Old Man watching Fat Electrician?! Is it already Christmas?!

We humans are experts at finding a way to kill one another, from the dawn of humanity to present day. 100% experts at it. 😂 im not even surprised the first time i heard of this project.

A glorious crossover indeed.

One of the things I hate most about Cold War era posturing/propaganda is the Japanese surrendered because of the power of the bomb they didn’t japan didn’t think the us had anymore bombs they surrendered because of the continued us fire bombing ordered by Curtis Lemay specifically after the emperor saw the destruction of the Tokyo fire bombing they also gave him a medal for the firebombing and it’s role in ending the war

Love you reactions, and I can't wait till you get to Sgt Reckless.

I thought that you would have watched his cheese bunker video before this one. You should watch more of his videos

Oh my god, Fat Electrician...please do yourself the favour of watching all his videos 😂

ok BUT hear me out. what if u make robo bats with a bat mimicking AI to eliminate the moral delima? eh? drop bomb, bomb opens, thousands of tiny drones swarm all over the place gettin in all the nooks n crannies then explode

God, I love being an American 😂

The shit we Americans get into when we end up with a case of the fuck around's because we want to find out.

I've watched all of TFEs video his old stuff is great especially his military job/weapon videos. His newer longer videos are even better.

to be fair it isnt that weird the british tried something similar with homing pigeons

Quick someone get this man a fat electrician playlist

...I'm calling the SCP Foundation's Ethics Committee.

14:25 though Fat Electrician didn’t say it in this video, and you keep saying stuff about it being a warcrime, I’ll just respond with a quote from the Fat Electrician himself……..”It’s never a Warcrime the First time” 😉

His saying is it isnta war crime the first time

Did someone say…BATS???

I think the firebomb was about 80k dead, so 12x that

So for the sake of your sanity, should we not tell you about America's pigeon guided munitions.

wait till you watch the one about the chicken powered nuclear landmines

look up pidgin bombs too

Trust me, the Bat Bomb thing is NOT the craziest idea anyone ever had in ww2. A group in British intelligence did a complete psychological profile of Adolf Hitler, and concluded that it would be possible to drive him completely irretrievably insane. How? By overdosing him on pornography, of course. The group gathered a huge quantity of German smut, and the plan was that a bomber would drop this by parachute over Hitler's estate at Berchtesgaden. Yes, I am quite serious. This was an actual thing. But then, when they told a senior military officer about this, he basically said, "This is the stupidest idea I ever heard of," and basically killed the entire project.

Please do more Fat Electrician!

the burth of DARPA

Old man should look at more of his videos he's amazing !

What is it with dentists and weapons?

good times with war crimes the first time.

You forgot old man react Life is stranger than fiction

Americans don't fuck around, much less marines 😂

Dresden is not, for the same reason neither the bat bomb nor nukes would have been as destructive in Germany... buildings made of stone, not wood.

This will probably make someone mad but it needs to be said Dresden isn’t nearly as bad as it’s made out to be with 25,000 Compare it with other conventional bombings like London, Berlin, and Hamburg all ranging between 40,000 to 50,000 yes Dresden suffered but no more than anyone else

Old man React just you wait old fat electrician He's gonna tell you about The USS Texas

Ok but why though…..

@Azorees-oj5zr

10 ай бұрын

Because good times rhyme with war crimes.

@crustybomb115

10 ай бұрын

because giant war needs insane weapons of mass destruction... hell america made pidgeon guided missiles...

Please do more

your tactics confuse and frighten me sir.

This was not one of his ones

Kamikaze pigeons

@crustybomb115

10 ай бұрын

atomic chicken?

@kalebhookom678

10 ай бұрын

The first tracking bomb