Thank you for all your hard work Simon, and anyone Simom works with on all his channels, amazing, thanks again, bye love.

You were right Simon. Side Projects does sound better than almost mega projects

The Tzar gun was allegedly fired twice in a battle, but it fired some type of shrapnel. This story can't really be proven tho and many civilians have thrown all types of fireworks items into the barrel (as a possible origin of the gunpowder residue). It is believed that had anyone tried to fire one of the solid metal balls (seen on display), the barrel would likely have exploded. However, those balls are said to be decorative items that were added near the gun decades later.

@jakedee4117

3 жыл бұрын

Good point, people may have been goofing around or doing a pyrotechnic display with the gun.

I would LOVE to see an episode concerning the The Falkirk Wheel

@888johnmac

3 жыл бұрын

yeah , liked to bump up a bit

@devinecatlady

3 жыл бұрын

It's quite something. Fascinating.

@TheDizastarmaster

3 жыл бұрын

it's the best we can do

@Skraeling1000

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDizastarmaster that's weird, I'd never heard of that til a YT suggestion appeared in my side bar today... weird coincidence or what?

@TheDizastarmaster

3 жыл бұрын

@@Skraeling1000 the algorithm knows all!

I don't know if it's a mega project or a side project, but a video on Dinorwig (the electric mountain) would be cool, as its somewhere I've actually been. That, and it's sole intention is to supply the power needed for the surge of kettles going on after certain TV shows. So British.

That glorious dome! those chiseled features! that majestically adorned face! ... When are you going to do the restoration of St Paul's Cathedral?

If i remember correctly; the an artillery cannon called the Atomic Annie which was made to fire atomic artillery shells. Sounds like an interesting idea for a video to me.

@SmartassX1

3 жыл бұрын

The u.s. and soviet russia both ended up making a number of different large mortars/cannons for firing tactical nuclear weapons. The last of these was retired in the 1960s, or so. They're in museums now.

@chipmunkhunt

3 жыл бұрын

Atomic Annie was replaced when the 155mm and 8 inch howitzers were nuclear capable

@jebbus132

3 жыл бұрын

@@chipmunkhunt And one cannot forget the Davy Crockett smoothbore recoilless rifle and the mark.54 warhead.

@jebbus132

3 жыл бұрын

@bill billiams the early M28 model but the later m29 model paired with the lowest yield nuke it could launch you can fire it and not receive a lethal dose of radiation on impact. Enough to develop cancer later? Most definitely.

@michaelmoore7975

3 жыл бұрын

There's one on display at Ft.Sill. When I was a kid it looked so fearsome, even though it wasn't much different than ordinary artillery.

The Rideau Canal/River! Vote Canada!

Did I miss something? You said "Little David was used in WWII but designed in 1857"?

@timothyhouse1622

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. The Mallet Mortar was designed in 1857, which is probably what they were going for but someone screwed up the script.

@saukraya3254

3 жыл бұрын

It have the same calibre as the British Mallet's Mortar, constructed in May 1857, (Wikipedia)

Have you considered doing a video on the U.S. Coast Artillery at the turn of the 19th century? Tons of big guns, and even bigger concrete batteries to support them. Think the Endicott or Taft era Coast Artillery improvements. Fort Casey on Whidbey Island in Washington State has two 6" guns on disappearing carriages, one being pockmarked by the Japanese when it was in the Philipines during WW2

Excellent video, enjoyed it.

Good video 👍

10:35 Iowas guns had a caliber of 406mm not 410mm... but at those sizes that is nitpicking lol

@ImaSpacePotato

3 жыл бұрын

Technically they were 16 inches, not 406mm. The different is tiny, at just 0.4mm when converted, but the distinction is important more because the US used imperial units for their naval guns, while the IJN used the standard units, which is why their analogues to the 16 inch gun was a nice even 410mm gun.

2:00 - Chapter 1 - Karl gerat 4:05 - Chapter 2 - The obusier de 520 modèle 1916 5:50 - Chapter 3 - The Paris gun 8:10 - Chapter 4 - Tsar cannon 9:20 - Chapter 5 - Little david

Love the new show Simon.

Be neat to see you do some "on location" type videos. Naval Aviation Museum at Pensacola NAS and the Marine Corp Museum near Quantico Va are two of my favorite but I'd love to see others military museums all over the world! I'd especially love to see them through your eyes. 👍

Most people: "I have a successful You Tube channel!" Simon: " Hold my ceramic replica Red Solo coffee cup! "

1:08 - A surprising fact about the "fire lance" was the inscription on it. It read, "stick butt-end in ground, light the blue taper and retire with alacrity."

Thank you

The Coriolis Effect is the effect of the rotation of the earth beneath an object traveling above it's surface, not the effect of earth's curve. Enjoy your videos though

THAT BEARD is a giant war machine!!!

@hanswurst7047

3 жыл бұрын

u mean Sexmachine

Sling was the pioneer of long range combat.

Rather Morbid, but Simon, how about Great Train Wrecks?

You should do side projects on greatest warships

At the Seigfreid line the artillery told the army we’ll take out the pill boxes. They would fire a 155mm shell on a box. The Germans would come out completely dazed.

For those in need of assistance, 100,000kg (100 metric tonnes) is equal to 68 El Caminos

Awesome video, DO A VIDEO ON THE ANTARCTIC SNOW CRUISER PLEASE!!

2:00 You forgot the 24 inch python's of the Hulkster. Before Hulkamania runs wild on you Brother!

@lurk781

3 жыл бұрын

That's enough hot doggin' and grand standin !

This channel is really making a bang!

@TheLexiconDevils

3 жыл бұрын

It’s blazing .... allegedly

0:37 Correction: Slings and Spears were the original long range combat weapons. Especially once the Atlatl was invented. And yes, you can kill someone with a sling. And before crossbows there were bows and arrows. Not to mention Blowguns. Dunno why the script writer started with these weapons, but they're categorically untrue as the first ranged weapons humans have used in warfare.

Simon, may I suggest a similar video to this one. You have done several videos about dams in your several series. How about a video about the most noteworthy dams throughout history?

Do the Iowa class battleships

Come on, The Paris Gun is big and interesting enough to have a mega projects episode.

@tfs203

3 жыл бұрын

I was in the Military for a longtime, and the most impressive piece of Hardware I have ever seen, was a 75yr old Battleship!

We're going to need a family tree of simon channels.

Awesome stuff!

The Karl Gerat’s barrels would have a life of perhaps just over 100 rounds before the barrel would wear out.

The Orban Bombard would've been a perfect inclusion here

@Quallenkrauler

3 жыл бұрын

This. Maybe an honourable mention of Warwolf.

Simon's 'stache game is strong today...

I bet Mons Meg was on the list.. Mons Meg is a medieval bombard in the collection of the Royal Armouries, but on loan to Historic Scotland and located at Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. It has a barrel diameter of 20 inches making it one of the largest cannons in the world by calibre. Diameter: 51 cm Opened: 1449 Length: 4 m Shell weight: 175 kg Barrel length: 280 cm

@golddragonette7795

3 жыл бұрын

It's damn impressive to see in person

Yo :) love this and your business blaze stuff

Hi simon

simon i love your content and i know you dont write these episodes but i would like to make a few points, 1st ww1 was not near its end in 1916 "the year of battles" 2nd Karl gerat is not a tank its a sp(sorta) artillery piece nit a huge deal but still

The shells for the Paris gun had to be made slightly larger in diameter over time to compensate for both barrel wear and permanent barrel expansion. Once the barrels were worn out, they no doubt met the same fate as their smaller cousins.

A truly large caliber video!

AC-130 please!

Could you make a video on either this or the megaprojects chanell about the öresunds bridge that connects Sweden to Denmark it was a megaproject that was on time and on budget

There's a whole slew of prototypes late for their battle debut. I think you could get a good, and somewhat depressing, 2 or 3 Side Projects of those from WWII alone. Depressing due to how much work and resources went into these things that were just scrapped in the end. Some examples would be the Pzkw VIII Maus, T-28 Super Heavy/T-95 Motor Gun Carriage, A39 Tortoise, Montana-class Battleship, and the IJN A-150 Class Super Dreadnought. Some of those did make it to production, some never even made it to prototype phase; but they all share the commonality of the never saw the WWII action they were planned for.

"Insert primature ejaculation joke here" Apparently it isn't the size that matters

The Tsar Cannon sounds like a platform from which to launch the Tsar Bomba, the worlds biggest nuke that had its' payload cut in half from 100Mt to 50Mt for fear of it burning the atmosphere, but still proved to be utterly pointless cos it was just completely impractical to have such a big bomb... :P

You missed atomic Annie! The atomic cannon.

"Regular small trucks" new topic

*Plot twist* There is more than one Simon making all these KZread vids constantly. They work in shifts 24/7 cranking out videos.

Hi Simon, Team, I have this recurring request: could you folks do an episode/partial episode about the Messerschmitt 262? When I was a young kid who's curious about the world, history and engineering, I encountered in an well illustrated 6 part history of WW2, 6 encyclopedia style fat books, in part 6 off course since the heyday of the jet engine coincided with the end of the war, images of this plane. I was mesmerized by it's design, but more so by how it could be that "invented the jet fighter and the rocket, but lost the war.." Later on I understood the complexity of the supply chain, rocket/jet engine designs, made under force by political prisoners or otherwise "undesirables" and all of that. But still, the ME-262 did turn out to be sort-of the template for even modern day jet fighters, and is truly a design classic nowadays. Don't get me wrong, I'm not that much of an airplane enthusiast, I rather look at electric locomotives (sidenote: have a look at the Alsthom BB 7200, might be inspiring as well. We all know the 'crocodile' and the 'pig nose' I think.. Or do we?) But when I read trough the Dutch Wikipedia page about the plane it was described as "een gigantische onderneming, een echt mega-project" (a gigantic undertaking, a true mega-project) which apparently is not mentioned as such in the English translation of that very page. It wasn't the first, it wasn't the fastest because it wasn't rocket powered, but it was immediately as distinctive as we know jet fighters today. Show a picture of it to a kid, and there's a big chance it will tell you that "it's a jet fighter" (although honestly I'm not 100% sure about that, bit that is the idea). Another crazy thing from those days were the enormous glider planes they built where young kids (as young as 16, sometimes even younger because they lied about their age to get in the army. Due to propaganda off course, but that's another thing) were stacked in these planes, with maybe a week or 2 training, being hoisted 3 in a row behind some big engine german warplane, likely a Juncker or a Messerschmitt. That struck me too, _glider planes?_ With terrified teenagers, ready to parachute into certain death.. My gosh, the weirdness of those end days, weeks and months of that war were, and still are, mind-bogglingly crazy. I've had my say, I sincerely hope you and the team could take it in consideration to do a vid about this, whether here or on Geographics for the place they were built, or on the other great mega projects channel. Because I have noticed that about every subject is better, or at least more fun to watch, and maybe slightly more informative because of the 'fresh' research the incredible team's doing every time making it really up-to-date, and when/if/because Simon is the presentor/narrator. I'll see something pop up, or I don't. It doesn't really matter much since all the vids of these channels are great geeky bits of entertainment! So keep it up, and especially keep _that_ up, team. You are 1 by 1 a great addition to the presentations of historical events, maybe the greatest of the present.

In Gent Belgium there lies a cannon from the year 1431, it was used to fend off the spanjards. The cannon is now called The Dulle Griet and it weighs 12500kg and has a barrel diameter of 640mm. The more you know.

Watch this video at 0.25 speed ......................SIMON IS DRUNK

Simon 'The Legend' Wistler.

Please do a video on the Avro Arrow please. Such a neat story.

Baron Greenback and his custard cannon. Si Barone.

How is it even possible to dislike a video with Simon?

BANG....Thanks

Side project on fast missiles.. like the sprint missile

How about the raising of the Mary Rose?

@JohnnyWednesday

3 жыл бұрын

How about the burning of the Cutty Sark, you boat nerd.

Iowa-Class Battleships had 406mm (16-inch) Guns. The 410mm (16.1-inch) Guns you are referring to are those of the Japanese Nagato-Class Battleships

Do a video on underground nuclear testing!!

💜I had not heard of most of these. Thank you!:-)💜💜💜

There’s a US Army training video on the Little David mortar here on KZread for those that are interested.

The Paris guns could have made a fair mess of Southern England if they'd been moved on to Calais. Their range would have had them knocking on the door of London :O

The Canadian Avro Arrow!!

Like smashed.. Boom!

Fun fact: The Tsar Bomba took its name from the Tsar Cannon and Tsar Bell

Suggestion: The Disneyland Mountain Range. The Matterhorn, Thunder Mountain and Space Mountain. This subject could actually be considered a Mega. 🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️

@9:30 I think the date May 1857 is a bit off. 1937 might be closer considering it was intended to test bombs. Wikipedia has Mallets mortar in 1857. Good video in any case.

Say that again, the tsar cannon doesn't fire and is a symbol of Russian power. Spot on builders of the Tsar Cannon, spot on.

The long Max was a big German long range gun. A new propellant arrived so a longer thinner barrel was screwed into it reducing it's bore and extending range. The later portion had no rifling. Extensive bracing was applied. The propellant burned and reduced the lining so each shall was increased in diameter. When the barrels were removed there remained just three more standard Long Max. Nothing to see here.

Don't think the Iowa battleships fired armor piercing shells at Iwo Jima. They likely fired the 1900 lb HC (high-capacity) bombardment shell, and it would Have been ineffective against concrete bunkers. Not so the 2700 lb AP round - it could crack through 30 feet of reinforced concrete.

Simon needs a video on his side projects. Lllooonnnngggg video

You should do the gatling gun

karl, hell yeah

Little David has exactly the caliber of: 1 yard. Pretty impressive to measure caliber in yards!

@duanesamuelson2256

3 жыл бұрын

Just nitpicking but caliber for artillery is the length of a piece. For example a 3" 50 has a barrel length of 3" (bore) * 50 (caliber) for a barrel length of 150".

Should have started with the Loupe de Guerre en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwolf

Yeah you missed one but Iain McCollum covered it on Forgotten Weapons a while back. Think he said it holds the record for the largest black powder gun still in existence? Think it's located in Malta but don't remember for sure.

For this channel or Megaprojects you should cover the M-16 program.

How about a show about Gerald Bull’s mega-cannon project and his subsequent murder by no-one-knows in 1990?

Can't believe you went with crossbows and catapults as "the first gamechangers" when you could've brought up atlatls, bolas, javelins, blowdarts, etc. Thank you for all the videos across the channels, you've singlehandedly kept my brain active during the pandemic

@dosidicusgigas1376

Жыл бұрын

Even slingshots were devastating and continued to be used throughout history. Also pointy sticks because war

"Even though it was German, it didn't work" This man has never purchased a used BMW

What distinguishes a mortar from a cannon? Is it the length of the barrel? Or the trajectory of the projectile it fires?

How about a sister channel to Biographics, to be called *Sidekicks* , about people who played second fiddle to other famous people?

3:45 Did any V2s actually hit the bridge? I was under the impression that the Germans missed with everything they threw at it once the allies took it, but that it eventually fell because of the huge use it was put to after being partially blown up by German engineers before the allies arrived.

I like big guns and I can not lie

Following in from your Biographics video on the Red Baron Is be interested to see a video on the evolution of fighter planes from just before WW1 to WW2. It was really interesting on one staple of military (horse cavalry) pretty much disappeared, and this totally new theatre of war (the sky) came into being. It must have been a huge change.

Could you do a video on the peace walls in Northern Ireland?

*me to the obusier* "So, you have that problem too?

Dearest Simon and Danny, Please do an episode of Side Projects on the blockbuster film "Space Cop".

Nice video . Just for the anecdote the " Paris gun " is knowed as : " la grosse Bertha " ( the fat Bertha ) in France. It was the first time i heard this name , thanks for the information . it became a french expression : " sortir la grosse Bertha " wich does mean " going on a date with an overweighted lady called Bertha " but " using your heaviest argument " in a conversation , or " being very audacious and heavy on the planification of a project "

Rail gun.

Do a video on Libya's irrigation system.

Hitlers Autobahn would be a great Side project

I thought you could do a spot on some of the worst battles in history that didn’t go as planned.

Side project video about the origin and derailing of Business Blaze?

Oh boy my AoE3 knowledge is finally prominent again!