Flak (1943)
FlaK the german short term for Flugabwehrkanone (Antiaircraft gun)
This once-classified U.S. Air Force training film depicts evasive maneuvers used by bomber pilots to avoid being hit by enemy antiaircraft fire.
The film includes animated illustrations by Disney studios and captured footage of enemy antiaircraft batteries in action
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Better Than 99% of Power Point presantations in my class
@treeinafield5022
3 жыл бұрын
Well obviously, this is a high production presentation.
@Lxcx333
3 жыл бұрын
@@treeinafield5022 but its 77 years old!!!
@gunchbandit4422
2 жыл бұрын
Wartime production doesn't fuck around.
@discordmemes5471
Жыл бұрын
Would love to see the 1%
@AC13O
Жыл бұрын
They made it ebttet quality thats why
I was skydiving in Germany, thank god I watched this 16 minute video about flak evasion otherwise I'd be toast! My grandma didn't stand a chance
@thecamocampaindude5167
3 ай бұрын
Lmao
@anXiaryMusic
3 ай бұрын
My buddy did, too. A week ago.
@Ulyssestnt
3 ай бұрын
Your skydiving with your grandma? ..badass.
@denniscrane9753
3 ай бұрын
Rip Grandma! 😢
@Ulyssestnt
3 ай бұрын
@@denniscrane9753Ripcord Grandma ;)
My great grandfather was a first lieutenant flying a b24 named Ole Blister Butt in WWII. They hit flak and was shot down. I still remember him telling me in detail what it was like. He said the engine got hit and ripped a hole in the fuselage, black smoke and fire started pouring in, they couldn't see anything in the plane and he was blinded by the smoke and fire. He still made sure all his men were out of the plane before they and he bailed over Italy. They were reported MIA for weeks before the Canadian expeditionary force found them. He never fully regained his sight from this.
@torosdepamplona
4 ай бұрын
May God bless and keep his soul! I’m literally crying here. Thank God for THE Greatest Generation!
@pbhurley19
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing this. I bet he was one hell of a man.
@emankcin1334
3 ай бұрын
My great grandfather also served on a b24, I wish I could’ve met him
@MessyKrieg
3 ай бұрын
What do you do?
@num3willie
2 ай бұрын
My dad was a bombardier in a B-24 shot down in the Battle of Anzio. Got hit with shrapnel in his right side while parachuting down (the metal was never removed). Luckly he was found by some nuns who dressed him in a habit to sneak him across the enemy line back to the Allies.
He protec, He attac, But most importantly, He take flak.
@charles9571
3 ай бұрын
What is the origin of this?
Also that duck with a parachute was pretty awesome
@user-rp5vx2pb9i
3 ай бұрын
The duck made me wonder the horror of having to bail out in a flak field.
I had a late friend, (now deceased - R.I.P.) who was an officer in the Luftwaffe Anti-aircraft Division, that’s right! the Luftwaffe! (Luft Flak Division, the “Flak Korps”) who commanded the 88mm and 105mm AA guns against the B-17s and B-24s. He said the whole irony of the flak is the falling shrapnel, that the Germans call, “Stahl Regen” (“Steel Rain”), would fall back down to earth and caused more casualties than the bombs did ! 😧
@JA-rk9cg
5 жыл бұрын
Wayland Lee that’s very interesting. I couldn’t imagine strolling along and shrapnel starts raining from the sky.
@vajeye-nar6172
5 жыл бұрын
@@JA-rk9cg you wouldn't be strolling along while there's bombers in the air LOL
@JA-rk9cg
5 жыл бұрын
Vaj Eye-Nar just realised that 😂
@spreadeagled5654
5 жыл бұрын
JackA D123 - Yeah, not during an air raid!
@hint0122
4 жыл бұрын
@@davidschlieber2543 you put anything in the air that high, it's going to come down with force. That's why they don't want people dropping pencils and pens off tall buildings
I’ll never understand how some of these planes flew hundreds of miles after literally losing 20% to 50% of the aircraft
@Jan_372
4 жыл бұрын
That's a lot of luck. Mostly the struts and control surfaces were still intact. Also trained pilots. But damn, I wouldn't want to be in any WW2 bomber.
@varun009
Жыл бұрын
The frame in tact and most of the Hull in critical areas prone to flexure as well as some very gentle flying and very insulative sheepskin suits.
@crawdadlando4053
Жыл бұрын
Couldn’t now.
@DugiDevetCarabolium
11 ай бұрын
No electronics like today ;)
@lt.spears1889
3 ай бұрын
Cause the B17 was a badass plane
Graphics like this are easy to understand. They don't distract me.
that was actually pretty interesting.
Why did i watch a video on flak evading?
@marcisjaunpaulis8645
7 жыл бұрын
Maybe you just play World of tanks? :D
@jaihadgeppo150
7 жыл бұрын
marcis jaunpaulis Maybe...
@roadsigncheems1566
5 жыл бұрын
Because you like seeing the intense pops of smoke around a plane while it flies
@ryanjones9498
4 жыл бұрын
Because the government wants you to be a mindless vegetable laying in bed watching you tube videos
@skedichlavender2
4 жыл бұрын
@Rick O'Shay I am going to show this the my grandpa
For how old this is, I actually learned something.
At around 80 years old, this video is pure gold. Simple and easy to understand.
Our granddads had balls much, much bigger than ours
@llVIU
5 жыл бұрын
no, they were stupid and reckless. Giving their lives to a bunch of idiot rich people who were greedy and wanted more land to themselves.
@kruppcorp2359
5 жыл бұрын
@@llVIU so the lives that were taken to defeat the Nazi Germany force that could've taken the world by themselves, burning innocents alive/gassing them including you, were idiots? life and War ain't no shitty fortnite game, kid. Realise for once that there are NO fucking respawns.. none.
@TheMarrrk
5 жыл бұрын
@xc5647321 xc5647321 That was a conventional war with wide spread support completely different
@TheMarrrk
5 жыл бұрын
@xc5647321 xc5647321 What are you talking about being shamed into service you are completely changing the subject here buddy and women did their part in the factories and if they were allowed service in the armed forces I'd imagine many would do so
@CC-xh3eo
5 жыл бұрын
And most obviously they had a very, very small brain, just like you! So in the end, you have more in common with them than you might think. They were idiots with big balls and you are an idiot with hot air in your pants.
I talked to this old guy that fought in WWII as a fighter pilot, he had some awesome stories.
@Sulkanator
4 жыл бұрын
I would love to have done that. Not many WWII heroes left with us. Mad respect for them and our other military personnel.
@tmo2798
2 жыл бұрын
I'da flacked the sh)(*&&^)(*&t out of him.
I’m watching Masters of the Air on Apple TV+ and they are making a great job recreating the air battles of the WWII.
@rafaelromeromedina1135
3 ай бұрын
Me too!!
Just watched the first part Catch-22, and memories are flooding back.
@Tarwarz
4 жыл бұрын
That is the exact reason im here
My grandfather was a german flak gunner. I never got to meet him because he died of other causes before i was born. All info i had was from my mother, but he didnt tell her too much. I wish i could have met him.
@Ealdorman_of_Mercia
10 ай бұрын
So your grandfather fought for Hitler?
Damn i actually learned a few things. Thanks for putting this out there
Thanks for this great video !
This makes sense to me. The gunners have to lead the airplanes, so if they change course and speed they should be less predictable. Very cool to see this old training film
@KC-bg1th
4 жыл бұрын
Michael Bauers This rarely worked since the entire sky was blanketed in flak bursts, restricting movement; in reality, it wasn’t just one flak gun shooting at you like shown in this video, but instead was dozens, if not hundreds. All it allowed you to do was fly straight and hope you survived; this was propaganda similar to how you could duck and cover to avoid being killed by a nuclear blast. Cool in theory, but like everything in war, is chaos in reality.
@veyolaski4324
4 жыл бұрын
Kevin C it's sort of like expectation vs reality
@hakimber837
2 жыл бұрын
Are you alive?
@Waitukubuli
Жыл бұрын
"The gunners have to lead the airplanes." In more ways than one. :(
@JohnyG29
4 ай бұрын
@@KC-bg1th Did you even listen to what the guy in the video was saying. He covers all your points, and evasive action was indeed very helpful.
and the flak does 43 damage to a ground enemy in battlefield 1 at 22 feet
@IndoLiberation
5 жыл бұрын
Theres no flak at bf 1 , it was 37mm pom pom gun (QF 1 pounder) , the 37mm round is basically a cannon fired frag grenade , i dont see any problem a sharpnel can reach 22 feet
So crazy, I wish I could see a FLAK being used by real soldiers. Every man back then was tough as nails. These presentations are so great, I wanna see more of these!!
@myblacklab7
3 ай бұрын
Every man? Huh - seems unlikely.
@dikon0172
2 ай бұрын
These Flak Gunners were boys, 15 to 16 years old.
@chrism8996
2 ай бұрын
@@dikon0172 Not entirely
why the fuck did I watch this? It was interesting though
During ww2 the us developed the proximity fuse. Instead of a timer, radar in the warhead would explode when the radar in the shell picked up the plane
@jamesdrake2058
Жыл бұрын
Actually a British invention that required the yanks to perfect it (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_fuze)
@Theiliteritesbian
3 ай бұрын
I watched a video how this was one of the most important technologies that aided the allies winning the war. Makes sense to me. I think they used it for other projectiles too.
This is very interesting, thx for sharing!
Thanks I really need this for Friday ;)
And all the animation we just watched was done by hand! No CGI back then, just paint on cels.
The shell knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the shell from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.
So damn captivating and illustrative.
That was incredibly advanced for those days! Never knew this, thanks!
@JohnyG29
4 ай бұрын
It wasn't the dark ages 😂
@Lecruque
4 ай бұрын
@@JohnyG29 some ethnic groups would disagree with you ;)
@phunkeehone
3 ай бұрын
It's basically math/calculations, which have been around for a while.
My grandfather flew in one of those. His planes name was “the sneaky jew”
@neverwinta7702
3 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂
This 16 minute video would end and the instructors hit the lights like “alright boys go get ‘em”
My son is watching this , and going to use this in a maths project, very informative thanks for sharing
GREAT video!
American military has always put a big emphasis on the class room, these guys probably sit in classrooms and presentations like this more then they shoot hot rounds I'd think Or atleast until there a certified(idk correct term) soldier,airman,marine and recieved specialist training, these videos are actually super informational.not boring at all
the flak almost looks harmless with the little stationary puffs of black smoke in the air...but anything but harmless. i can only imagine flying into the stuff in a slow moving Lancaster or B26 or something like that. Those guys while obviously terryfied had balls of steel flying multiple missions over Germany or France. Sometimes flying those planes to the absolute limits of their range with barely enough fuel to return home. What would they rather deal with i imagine, Nazi fighters or crazy amounts of flak over cities. Probably neither.
@CC-xh3eo
5 жыл бұрын
Ever thought about the people who were sitting in their basements, waiting for the bomb that would hit and kill them all? Old men, women and children? My mother was eight years old when the war ended and she told me about her nights sitting down there and waiting to die. Now don't tell that shit about "balls of steel" or anything, war is simply shit and everybody involved should be felt sorry for, not be admired as a "hero"! Americans seem to need a war in their own country to be cured of this ignorant shit!
@dg1006
4 жыл бұрын
Paul Popel ...Do you also feel that way about the German pilots bombing British cities with English women and children sitting in their basements ready to die? Plus this all happened BEFORE the situation you described.
@Jan_372
4 жыл бұрын
@@dg1006 actually britain did a small bomb raid on Berlin first, but whatever. Point is: a (world) war is bad.
@bocahdongo7769
6 ай бұрын
It doesn't look that deadly because on top of everything video describe, the timed fuse used were innacurated. Once Allies change their flak from timed fuse to VT fuse (using motion detector, in this case enemy plane) instead, everything went instantly shred like nothing tomorrow because the calculation processing was streamlined and shell always explode right near the enemy plane.
Nice, pretty informative.
I did not know you could avoid flak. This was very interesting.
@hakimber837
2 жыл бұрын
Are you alive?
@johannsebastianbach9003
2 жыл бұрын
@@hakimber837 I don't he is
@gyrospinup
3 ай бұрын
If the enemy had enough guns in the batteries to expand fire, this wouldn't work so well.
I just wanted to learn about flak guns. Watched the whole thing. Quite informative
Well I didn’t know the formations performed evasive flying like this on their way to the target. Very cool!
See now why didn't they teach us practical every day living skills like this in school? I'm literally 35 years old and never had anyone tell me how to evade flak batteries until now smh
@neverwinta7702
3 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂
This footage is priceless
this is very clever... the army is not just shooting one at another but planning and evading
That was really cool.
I was looking up a lot of aircraft information and different generation air craft and got here from Safari to KZread hehe
Why am I watching and enjoying this
Just remember the reason we lost so many men on D-Day - the assumption that the enemy did not have competent generals and planners when in fact theirs was even better than ours. Despite all this knowledge on how to avoid flak, we still lost thousands of ships and tens of thousands of men to flak - we forgot that the enemy thinks as well. Most of the losses were due to the so called 'weakest' of the flack laying methods - barrage fire. What they did was concentrate the flak in smaller and smaller areas, giving fighters more and more space to hunt. Directly laid flack was mainly used to evaporate night bombers.
@chrism8996
2 ай бұрын
Yep! The allies at normandy thought they were going to be met with second rate troops. Instead they were met with fanatical SS troops and alot of seasoned wehrmacht divisions. Allthough there were also alot of inexpereinced and foreign troops protecting the beaches of normandy.
One crewman who survived and went home, went to a movie theater. Before the movie started, there was a newsreel which showed bombers going into flak. The crewman stood up, yelled "flak" at the top of his voice, and ran out of the theater.
good thing renting this is free
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In germany instead of quack quack ducks do flak flak!
This is super interesting
That animation is 10,000x better than Microsoft PowerPoint
This video is interesting and educational. Never knew science technically were used to plan the flight of attack by the military. Wow me.
Watching this is as a War Thunder player. This is a helpful video!
Very interesting indeed,very brave young men .
A very interesting system albeit rudimentary given our modern equivalent. The way it works is actually very simple, basically The flak shell knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the shell from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the shell is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the flak shell must also know where it was. The flak guns guidance computer scenario works as follows; Because a variation has modified some of the information the computer has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error. It's really quite elementary when you think about it but technologically impressive nonetheless.
IN MEMORIAN ! Erich Hartmann Hans-Joachim Marseille. (Jagdgeschwader 52)
These gunners are crazy lethal asf, I can see why we are so great at leading, I be leading a lot in hunting and in games
Iron Maiden brought me here! There goes the siren that warns of the air raid Then comes the sound of the guns sending flak Out for the scramble we've got to get airborne Got to get up for the coming attack Jump in the cockpit and start up the engines Remove all the wheel-blocks there's no time to waste Gathering speed as we head down the runway Gotta get airborne before it's too late Running, scrambling, flying Rolling, turning, diving, going in again Running, scrambling, flying Rolling, turning, diving, Run, live to fly, fly to live, do or die Run, live to fly, fly to live Aces high
The artillery shell knows where it is by knowing where it isn't
These guys were heroes!!! Can’t imagine flying my airplane thru this hell and trying to survive…
Germans got the best toys...
@World_Premier
8 жыл бұрын
All the bad guys do
@Florianpimpf
7 жыл бұрын
Old glory but now we are not bad boys anymore
@World_Premier
7 жыл бұрын
Florianpimpf :(
@thegoat5334
6 жыл бұрын
F.u.c.k Allah in deed, fuck allah....
@Dan-pf1jf
4 жыл бұрын
@14miki Rubbish
This was pretty interesting tbh
Why don't I get to see more of this at Disneyland!!!
After the USA joined WW2 and started bombing specific military targets in Germany and France, a report on bomb accuracy concluded that under 10% landed within a half mile of their target. Pilots were ordered at one point not to take evasive action as they neared their bomb runs. In the end, despite initial moral.misgivings, a policy of area bombing was adopted leading to mass civilian casualties.
I'm just curious whether the flak cannon in red alert 2 is exist or not. That's why I come here
I wish I could ask grandpa if he remembers watching this.
I can see the sign on the classroom door saying; To Save Your Ass, No Sleeping in Class
did they had hit markers or how did they know they shot a plane down?
@billylukito5522
6 жыл бұрын
well, the plane will descend in altitude, or if they hit the plane fuel tank or engine, the plane will be burning and losing altitude? i mean, as long as the plane is crashing down to earth is all that matter to AA crew, right?
It was really smart.
I thought this was going to be about the lady who sang such hits as ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’ and ‘Killing Me Softly With His Song’.
@superhet7281
3 ай бұрын
lol!
I wonder how many friendly fire casualties occurred when fragments of spent shells hit the ground.
@BR-it2qe
3 жыл бұрын
I would totally be outside walking around while being bombed
I cant believe the shell keeps traveling up for over 30 seconds
Now they have heat seeking missiles.
@rutabagasteu
4 жыл бұрын
Which may or may not work. Look up air combat from Vietnam.
Fortunately proximity fuse shell never used. When used in England against V1 success rate 80%.
Interesting
Here because of Catch 22.
Dude, its a training/educational video for new pilots who haven't flown yet It's not fake or gay considering these men later put their lives on the line for the sake of freedom. If they failed, you might not be here today. Stop spamming the comments with you hate messages. It ruins it for everbody else. Get over yourself.
@Odin355
4 жыл бұрын
Freedom.... said the american.
@ryanjones9498
4 жыл бұрын
And they knew there’s no bailing out
People are awesome.
in theory it is the same tactic that is used with depth bombs to hit a submarine relying on sonar
Were these loaded with proximity fuses?
@greenfingernaildirt356
7 жыл бұрын
Alex C. timed fuses
@rutabagasteu
4 жыл бұрын
Proximity fuses were not used by the Axis.
something learned for IL2!!!
At the same time, the allies would get shells that would always automatically explode uncannily close to the enemy aircraft...
The title of the video needs to be changed to FLAK (1944), since the opening of the film shows it's from '44, not '43.
5:33 the one who film that has huge balls...
its 2:53 AM
@IYHIGJ
4 жыл бұрын
Now 3:28 Am
Some crazy tech they had 👁️👃👁️🙏
Germans had real creativity, their weapons and strategies of defense and attack were some genius shit.
@JohnyG29
4 ай бұрын
All major nations in WW2 had this technology, not just the Nazis.
@npi57
4 ай бұрын
@@JohnyG29 The german strategy of invading, was some crazy stuff not seen before this war. The arrow strategy. Not also that but they liked the strategy of drugging their soldeirs. So yeah, wars are not like everyone in it has equality of strategies or weapons. It aint a fair game, its war. Dude i could just google the inmense arsenal and strategy books each nation used. I assure you nothing is similar between nations and strategic movement. Dont you remember all those spying ops. Its ridiculous to affirm that
@Just.A.T-Rex
3 ай бұрын
Yet so many failed.
@myblacklab7
3 ай бұрын
"Shoot guns at planes" = genius-level creativity?
Being a bomber crew was a death sentence in WW2!
Bark worst than it's bite?
Video: restricted FBI: allow us to introduce ourselves
Also known as "ACK ACK" I believe.
Considering 7 of 10 crews didn't return...
@wattage2007
5 жыл бұрын
They make no mention of the Luftwaffe though, like flak was all they had to worry about.
@TheMarrrk
5 жыл бұрын
@@wattage2007 Pretty much was Luftwaffe were practically out of action
@s20ttv
4 жыл бұрын
By this point the Luftwaffe were almost totally destroyed. Brave men knowing they were going into a game of poker and cashing out wasn’t an option.
Eu sou o cara que você tava procurando.
if you want a evasive action do a spiral at various altitudes lol
But you are screwed, if there is a mole in the room
Flack so thick that you could walk on it at times
This evasive action actually made the Norden bombsight a lot less accurate
I am here because of Catch-22