Great show 👍 love the series.

A rate of fire about 892 m/sec?????

I am almost 45 years old, my mom still hides in the gas cupboard when it thunders to this day.She was around seven years old when the war ended, and so was my dad but around 5 or 6....they both are still alive today believe it or not. When I was a young boy and there was a storm outside and it thundered, my mom would hide in the gas cupboard with her coat over her head, she still does it to this day. I never understood why, and then one day in thought when I was grown up it dawned on me and I made the connection, air raids that had that much impact back in WW2 you still have the fear to this day. She has told me about the horrors of shell shocked troops on their return to civvy street, the horrors of the stories told when she heard from her uncles and grandaddy about some of the things that happened, and not to mention she will of only heard a snippet of the horrors because soldiers do not like to speak about the horrors they witnessed in wartime. Then there was gas attacks in WW1 also which was horror on an unimagined scale back then, they also did not have things like penicillin, they died of disease, they had body lice all over and break outs was rife, it is fair to say that WAR IS HELL ON EARTH! And have we changed since then? Not really.

@hazardsandcatastrophes

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment and for sharing your story with us!

@nikhil15s61

3 жыл бұрын

Price of war

My great grandad was a part of a maxim team in WWI.

13:35 - Hand Granate 29:09 - Molotov Cocktail 29:59 - Earlyman & Evaluation

This is a great series that doesn't only glorify weapon development but also looks at it from the devastation wars cause. It's nice that tank use against civilian populations by communist systems is mentioned , but hardly the military regimes supported by Washington.

Great

Great video, Im really enjoying your programmes. Maxim was born in the USA, but he became a naturalised British citizen (He was a committed Anglophile) and lived most of his life in England. He was knighted by Queen Victoria, something only available to British citizens. He is buried in West Norwood Cemetery. The reason I know about him, is I'm from West Norwood South London and at primary school, we did a history project about famous people buried in WN cemetery. It's one of the great London necropolis's along with Highgate etc and has many interesting tombs, catacombs and mausoleums.

@hazardsandcatastrophes

3 жыл бұрын

Hi thank you very much for your comment and thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. The history project sounds very interesting, was it fun?

$1000 in 10 seconds.

Shellshock is a way better name then ptsd

@PAULLONDEN

2 жыл бұрын

Don't think the generals (and politicians in their service) will agree with you .

@uuuuNB

2 жыл бұрын

It certainly is a more colorful word and I see why you like it. It's just not descriptive or accurate enough as you can get PTSD from a lot of things not having to do with warfare. It doesn't sound quite accurate to say that a rape victim suffers from shellshock. Besides if you look at the symptoms of shellshock/PTSD in WWI and WWII, it becomes clear the mental suffering manifested in completely different ways than how we see PTSD affect people nowadays. You don't really ever see the classical extreme shaking, becoming blind, paralysis and other similarly very physical symptoms in the modern manifestation of PTSD. It's actually a very interesting and puzzling question, why does the symptom of PTSD manifest in completely different ways now than in the two world wars? So I actually think it's fair to classify "shellshock" specifically to the mental state these people had, even if what they suffered from is also PTSD.

36:48 I am amazed that the driver could fit into the hole, LoL!

Videos like this for free ?

Excuse my ignorance but... If guns can be made to be automatic, why can't tanks?

@raymondglad5593

3 жыл бұрын

It can, projectiles takes up space and you have to transport them. It is more effective to fire at strategic targets with accuracy than spray projectiles around no mans land. Even with machine guns you have a single shot setting. You shoot a magazine of 50 rounds in 3 seconds. Your hit rate is very low. You aim single shot you can hit 50 targets. Don't let movies fool you, there is no endless bullets. A shooting scene will last 12 seconds with 4 magazines.😐

@rizalahmadfauzi1820

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the massive heat generated in the chamber if tank has an automatic shooting mode

Third comment I can’t believe it

@GannicusMisteriosdeHonduras

3 жыл бұрын

Why?

@hazardsandcatastrophes

3 жыл бұрын

😁😁🥰

10th comment Yay!