Those Jericho Trumpets were one of the most abused sounds of Hollywood.

@joeylawn36111

6 ай бұрын

THIS! I was going to post just this comment, as they use the sound for almost _every_ bombing run in movies.... 🙄

@bigdaddy7119

6 ай бұрын

@@joeylawn36111you mean every plane diving scene

@joeylawn36111

6 ай бұрын

@@bigdaddy7119 yeah, good point

@bigdaddy7119

6 ай бұрын

@@joeylawn36111 yeah, I was disappointed when they used it in Memphis Belle when they dove the plane to put the engine fire out lol 🤦🏼‍♂️

@joeylawn36111

6 ай бұрын

@@bigdaddy7119 🙄🤣

They may have been outdated but they raised hell on armored columns, they were the A 10 warthogs of its day.

@tmseh

6 ай бұрын

The A-10 musical instrument goes *BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT!*

@lancerevell5979

6 ай бұрын

Especially the Ju-87G version with it's twin 37mm antitank cannons! Rudel claimed 500+ Soviet tanks destroyed in the war. 😎👍

@marvinellis1517

6 ай бұрын

Not so much as the A-10 has excellent defensive armor and protects the Pilot with an armor tub. 😮 ❤

@dukecraig2402

6 ай бұрын

They weren't outdated, just like the A10 they require that your forces either have total air supremecy or fighter's to provide top cover for it, things the Germans had neither of later on, in places where they had those things it worked well.

@agwhitaker

6 ай бұрын

Then there was another pesky outdated dive-bomber, the Douglas SBD Dauntless, which wiped out the entire Japanese carrier group at Midway, and changed the direction of the war in the Pacific.

They were ridiculously advanced for their time, an incredible machine for its intended purpose.

Great video! Fun Fact: Landing on one leg was deadly, so each landing gear leg had an explosive charge in it. If one wheel was shot away by enemy gunfire, the pilot could blast off the other leg, allowing the plane to land flat on her belly.

@johnparsons1573

6 ай бұрын

Very interesting. I didn't know that

@notbraindead7298

5 ай бұрын

Didn’t know that.

I can still remember the horrified screams of “STUUUUKA! Get down!” from early the CoD games. Those dive sirens were such an iconic sound.

swordfish bi-planes were outdated but took out some the most advanced naval ships of ww2

I would have expected you to include a sound bite of the noise they made with their sirens

@dsmoke1972

6 ай бұрын

That would have been nice.

@matthewlaberge

6 ай бұрын

Agreed, even though it was overused by Hollywood and I’ve heard it a million times it would have been nice to hear it in this video for context. Oh well…

@kiwibonsai2355

6 ай бұрын

I'm rather disappointed, even a picture of the device would of helped a few understand how it worked..

@randallraszick6001

6 ай бұрын

Pink Floyd's The Wall has a clip. Chilling.

@kiwibonsai2355

6 ай бұрын

@@randallraszick6001 look mummy there's an airplane up in the sky ✌️

I love your videos. I was a little disappointed that I didn't get to hear the sound of the Jericho Trumpet in the video. Especially since you talked so much about it.

I had a gas-powered model as a kid... that my father immediately wrecked on its first flight. I should have just kept it as a model on a shelf. It looked utterly badass.

@robertwoodroffe123

6 ай бұрын

I can understand you father’s altitude

@conorf8091

6 ай бұрын

The dive bomb had to be done ?

@shootfirst2097

6 ай бұрын

@@robertwoodroffe123 My father didn't have an "attitude." He loved the plane as much as I did. He just didn't know how to fly a model airplane,

@HarupertBeagleton-dz5gw

6 ай бұрын

You didn’t like the pun he made about your father being a wildcard pilot?

@brianshook3289

6 ай бұрын

I had one too. It would fly, then dive into the ground for no apparent reason. I would glue it back together and try again, same results. We ended up calling it the "stupid"

It is baffling to me why this video does not include audio samples of the Jericho Trumpets.

Creepy...yes. But when you see one up close (Chicago Museum), there's something uniquely Teutonic and oddly beautiful about them.

It is my impression that the Stuka was kind of outdated already in 1940. To slow and with a poor climbing speed

Thank you for using footage that relates to the theme of the mini docu, shame you didn't add the Stuka siren sound even though you talk about it a lot

I quite love the stuka aircraft. So classic and distinguished. Its dive siren is incredible sounding as well. A true work of art.

Thought you might express the sound of the plane during a dive attack. Remember hearing it during WW2 films shown during my high-school days.

I wonder what diffence retractable undercarriage, a bigger engine and the proposed flip down tail would have made? As well as carrying sidewinders and tactical nukes.

My mother-in-law was a war bride who was one of the refugees that fled East Prussia ahead of the Red Army. Her brother, Helmut, was a Stuka pilot. I got to meet him during a trip to Germany in the early 80s. He spoke no English, and my German was limited to ordering beer and asking where my suitcase was, so our conversation was pretty limited. It was still quite an experience to just meet a part of one of the most important elements of WWII.

As far as i know, that trumpet was only rarely used, as it also alarmed the potential target of the attack. That could easily draw anti air fire to the Stukas, and while diving they were quite vulnerable, as the course couldn´t be changed anymore. Which made the plane predictable, or, in war terms, an easy target.

@DreAmeoba1

6 ай бұрын

I was going to point out the same thing..

@sim.frischh9781

6 ай бұрын

@shawnstafford7809 Well they sat exactly right next to the SOURCE of the sound, no wonder it was hella annoying.

@sim.frischh9781

6 ай бұрын

@shawnstafford7809 Engine noise is a given in any machine, but the siren is an unnecessary extra.

The stuka crews hated the siren. It was incredibly noisy in the cockpit and most disabled the device.

A lot of the pilots had the Jericho Trumpets removed from their aircraft after a few missions, the pilots said that the noise they made was “extremely annoying and distracting”.

@kevinb3812

6 ай бұрын

I can imagine that!

There are none left, if you see one flying it's a mock up (just like the IL2). The work horses are lost but the show ponies still exist (Spitfires ETC).

@ryanparker7258

6 ай бұрын

There is a WW2 Stuka here in the UK think it’s at the RAF museum in Hendon London or the imperial war museum Duxford. It’s missing the 37mm anti tank guns. That was about 30 odd years ago I saw it.

@massmike11

6 ай бұрын

There is another one being restored, bbut I can’t remember where

Really nice episode… I was missing images or film of the early Ju87-A model until the last 15 seconds, when one turned up for less than a second 😂… love the early style of the spats!! These were used by the Legion Condor.

I just searched yesterday your channel for a video on the Stuka... And there you are!

I love them. From an early age, I've been fascinated by military aircraft and these have always been an absolute favourite. I even collect WWII diecast aircraft and I have many Stuka of every type, more than any other. Maybe flawed but also very effective.

@psychedashell

6 ай бұрын

Funny thing is good pilots can often turn flaws into strengths, the Soppwith Camel was apparently terrifying for a lot of pilots to even fly but the prop torque that made it a menace to fly made it nearly untouchable to groundfire and enemy aircraft.

It would have been nice to hear the sound of these Sirens in this video.

@tootired76

6 ай бұрын

Every old Hollywood movie plays that sound whenever an airplane dives or starts to crash

Rudel showed the full potential of the stuka, his record is timeless!

A 25M circle on the ground was about the accuracy you could expect. Which is insane because that accuracy wasn’t achieved until laser guided bombs decades later. Dive bombing turned out to be the most dangerous form of ground attack after the early years. The flight path was extremely predictable, slow and at the perfect altitude for ground fire to ambush you. You can see the transition from either high altitude strategic bombing and low level fast bombing with most nations ditching the accuracy of dive bombing for survivability. Dropping bombs at tree top level Fast and low with typhoons, mosquitoes or fw190’s was a safe bet but not as precise as dive bombing but still more accurate than high alt strategic bombing. This concept was first proven in early fW190 raids into Dover and England. Also the added benefit of flying nap is less radar exposure.

I'm in min my late fifties, now, but I was the youngest of seven, born late to my Depression-era/WWII parents. One of my dad's WWII era drinking buddies- he had several - was an old dive navy bomber pilot. He acknowledged that the best dive bomber pilots, were, in his words "You had to be crazy, to start with." RIP, Legends.

I like the way HardThrasher explained how they fared in the Battle of Britain: "Stukas learned important life lessons about operating in contested airspace..."

Does anyone have this stuka sound on a recording? ....... There is nothing better than to hear the sound, rather than a description of it by people who have not heard it since WW2.

Have you ever considered doing an episode on the Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber, the US Navy’s answer to the Stuka? The Dauntless started off in the mid-1939s as a design of a competitor that Donald Douglas bought out, and became a workhorse scout and dive bomber during the crucial battles in the Pacific theater between the beginning of 1942 and the middle of 1943.

The idea for a dive bomber came from the consequence of Versailles treaty, as it was not allowed for Germany to own or construct long range artillery. So two different plans came up, the dive bomber and the ballistic artillery rocket to surpass the problem to have no long range artillery. This started in late 1920ies, but ideas were emerging in beginning of 1920ies.

It's very much not gosh-awk... its gos-hawk!

I instantly think of the song Stukas over Disneyland by The Dickies

I love that thing. Something about its physical profile, the way the wings drooped slightly before angling back up... love the JU-87.

@terraflow__bryanburdo4547

6 ай бұрын

Like a nightmarish Nazi pterodactyl

Prototype Ju87's and Bf109's were powered by Rolls Royce Kestrel engines. Reminiscent of the RR Nenes copied into the Mig15 by Kimov. However the Ju87 went on to use a Junkers Jumo and the Bf109 to use a Daïmler-Benz, both indigenous German motors.

Too bad, all those words about the Jericho Trumpet without hearing them and not a word about why that plane got a fix landing gear.

@paktahn

6 ай бұрын

it had fixed landing gear because when it was designed it was still common for smaller military planes to not have retractable gear as it was a newish development and added more weight to the plane you also needed space available in the plane for the gear there was a plan to built a totally new updated version of the stuka that would have had retractable gear along with a more powerful engine a larger bomb load and a sliding or rolling rear vertical stabilizer that would give the rear gunner a clear view but it was passed over as even with the upgrades it would have only had similar performance with the original stuka only being being better for a larger bomb load

By the time of WWII, the Studka was obsolete. Just way too slow needing total air superiority to operate.

@recoil53

6 ай бұрын

And which single engined bomber of the era did not?

@colinelliott5629

6 ай бұрын

​@@recoil53Typhoon?

@recoil53

6 ай бұрын

@@colinelliott5629 The Hawker Typhoon was a fighter that was switched to ground attack.

@colinelliott5629

6 ай бұрын

@@recoil53 OK, I concede. I looked it up, and it was indeed intended as a normal fighter, but wasn't much good at it, except for low level interception of fast German fighters. I know it was very large, and excelled at ground attack, so assumed that was the original intention.

All I had to do was see the title and I knew exactly what plane it was going to be. That siren had to be the most unnerving sound in the world

That front air intake: Death smiles at us all.

Prior to the invasion of Poland German pilot Bruno Dilley while flying a Stuka with such precision, managed to sever the detonator wires with his single bomb to the charges rigged on a key bridge that the Poles were about to destroy. This bridge was critical to the Wehrmacht's plans for movement of troops and machines into Poland. That's some impressive pinpoint accuracy.

Quite possibly the most evil looking warplane ever , combined with the siren , quite terrible indeed. Thx. 👍✌️

What about the horrifying wail of the dive sirens? Did I miss that part?

I think they were highly effective because they worked closely with ground forces, a skill not mastered by the allies until later. They were also in their element when no aerial opposition, yet my father didn't think they were up to much, because they were so vulnerable, and the bombs not that dangerous, if one kept one's nerve in spite of the sound. He was at Dunkirk. In contrast, in Normandy, the support from Typhoons was far, far more dangerous to the enemy. They could be summoned quickly from a 'taxi rank' by a FOO.

No sound bite of the trumpets?

As a kid I was very interested in its design of the Ju-87 and had a model plane myself. Today I can see that it needed that retractable landing gear to enhance its speed.

As far as I know, there are no air worthy ju-87 left .. but currently in progress of build

The Stuka was the only aircraft to achieve a true vertical dive and recover. The A-10 comes close, around 96% of vertical. and there are only 2 complete ones left, with a third being built.

Wasn't very good when it came against RAF in the battle of Britain . It got shot out of the skies .

Let me spend all this time talking about a siren, but never actually give a sample of what it actually sounded like.

The "different sized bomb" at 4:25 is NOT a bomb. It's a 37mm cannon mounted in an underwing gun pod. A Stuka so equipped carried one under each wing.

The idea for the "Jericho trumpets" came from the Stukas already producing a whistling screech in a dive due to the rush of air through the extended cowling under the nose of the aircraft, which, instead of trying to suppress the sound, they played upon it and enhanced it by adding the little whistle turbines in there and then elsewhere on the 'plane. It no longer carries the fear it once did for so many back in it's day, but it is still instantly recognisable to so many around the world as a piece of genuine "active" psychological warfare that was used in battle, to strike fear into enemies. Really a device of pure terrorism. It's a blend of modern technology and the primal scream of armies or the wails of spirits and demons of myth all rolled into one such as this world has thankfully little (yet) seen

@billpetersen298

6 ай бұрын

Bagpipes?

@danmc_2783

6 ай бұрын

@@billpetersen298 Well, there are those who would pose the argument that bagpipes were originally created with the purpose of creating music. It's pretty weak but must be acknowledged 😂

Well done video except for the 3 clips of BF109's that look nothing like the JU87

@terraflow__bryanburdo4547

6 ай бұрын

He does that stuff every video. British soldiers instead of Russians, etc... It's a meme at this point😂

Not a single sample or simulation of the siren sound here? You hear it in many WWII movies . . . .

Usefull until anything remotely armed showed up, essencially the A-10 Warthogs of WWII.

Tactics, not technology, caused the failure of the Ju 87. The Stuka was a specialized attack aircraft, not a jack of all trades. These aircraft needed a large numbers of escort fighters create an environment of uncontested airspace. It's not that much different than P-51s providing escort duties for B-17s.

is there a way to provide a sample of the sound?

A remarkable aircraft and indispensable component to the Blitzkrieg strategy, essentially being "flying artillery" for the fast moving, mechanised ground forces. Not so good in the Battle of Britain when faced with formidable opposing air force elements, they had to be withdrawn from that campaign as the Spits and Hurricanes ripped them apart. In later war years they were well adapted to be flying tankbusters, especially on the Eastern Front.

Which was better as a dive bomber, the Stukka or Douglas SBD Dauntless?

It would be nice to add a soundtrack of the Stuka sirens.

The JU 87 was vulnerable to any fighter. It had to work in areas that they had air superiority. Germany tried to make their bombing accuract by dive bombing even with their larger bombers, with mxed results and wasted time and effort. The sucess came from the German tactical intergration of tanks, supported by infantry, anti- tanks guns and artilery on the ground and fighters protectiing them from attack, and aerial surveillance while the Stukas acted as point attack artillery. It was a unified fighting force that beat larger armies and better tanks. It took the allies some time to learn how to do it. But one the down side the Germans did not really have a strategic bombing force. But in 1993/40 no one was really ready for war, but the Germans were better prepared and organized at the start, but that didn't last. But the lessons learned are still put to use today.

There are at least 2 being restored to fly. I somehow doubt that they'll be doing vertical dives, though!

The video is half about the jerico trumpet I saw only one clip of a Ju-87 that even had it on the plane, that's because installing it on the plane was stopped after Ju-87 B1 model. Also why not put an audio clip of the siren in the video?

still a great plane,despite its limitations .an iconic aircraft.

Knew its outline from the start. I Flew one as a kid. Round & round from 30' away. A Cox. .049 Ukie'

Interesting I had no clue they were so effective on ships late in the war. I thought they were getting blasted out of the sky by fighters very interesting . I did not know they used them for night raids either late in the war

@michaeltelson9798

6 ай бұрын

The Italians bought B and D models of the Ju-87 since their industry couldn’t produce a good ground attack vehicle. Independent of others they developed skip bombing on their own. They used the Stuka in this attack strategy.

@madmanmechanic8847

6 ай бұрын

@@michaeltelson9798 Wow had no clue I know they were deadly in the early part of the war but were getting blasted out of the sky with superior allied fighters. like rats in a barrel they were never designed as a fighter

An interesting design for sure, but after the Allied fighter aircraft decigns progressed, They also became excellent training aids as moving targets and provided a valuable morale boost to the allies, as well as excellent entertainment for the Allied aircraft groups.. Inadvertently late, the Germans then realised that several allied pilots then became very good at their aerial gunnery skills, by attacking planes like these while in flight.... That is probably among one of the main reasons they moved these planes to areas where the then modern allied fighters were very sparse or just didn't exist....

How many times does the author have to repeat "The Terrifying Sound of The Jericho Trumpet"?

Good Video/Info.

As my grandfather said, they were useless. One second of the release of the bom would miss by a mile. They never took out the desalination plant in Tobruk. As soon as the box Bofor went up into the air, their accuracy went in the bin.

Contrary to the fcukwittery that abounds, the sirens were pressure operated and didn't scream precisely with airspeed but let the pilot know when the *pressure* was right to drop the weapon. In practice that wasn't so useful as it seems but remember that the thing is not dropping a bomb vertically but at an angle - so the pressure the weapon is exposed to affects its "glide" path and accuracy: less pressure meant more drop. As with most war things from WW2 Germany, clever. The sound the pilot heard was nowhere near as high pitched as the sound the people on the ground heard.

The pilots did not like the Jericho trumpet!

@afre3398

6 ай бұрын

That is also my impression.

@davidgleinbach7316

6 ай бұрын

WHAT?,,,,*_°

@kfcinafrica2111

6 ай бұрын

Yeah because it gave them away

@whiskey_tango_foxtrot__

6 ай бұрын

Drove them nuts

@kevinb3812

6 ай бұрын

The psych warfare worked on the pilot as well!

Were there any other planes made with "Jericho trumpets" or is the Stuka the only one?

I was told - could be wrong here - that the first operation using Stukas was the battle of Teruel in Spain. If anyone knows differently, let us know!

The A-10 of WWII.

The Stuka was great until the enemy attacked with fighters. They were slow and under armed that could not maneuver.

This hurt my brain.

While watching this episode, the "likes" were jumping up like crazy. Well done, Dark !

Talking for 10min about the siren but not once playing it's sound is a somewhat strange decision...🤔

Nachtschlachtgruppen... now thats a word...

My grandad used to say that the Stuka scared the crapola out of him and others

Why didn't we hear sirens of diving Ju-87s in this video, instead of vocal explanations of their horrifying effects on the opposite military and civilians alike? 🤨🤔🙄⁉ Never mind, I liked the video❣😍

Not all had the Jericho Trumpet.

You talk about the distinctive terrifying sirens of the diving Stuka throughout this video, but don't include a single audio example. Slack.......

@9:11 A GI? Soldier in garrison cap not really bothered by perceived urgency of situation

Not going to upvote this video for one reason, The entire video is about the Stuka and yet not one sound clip of the siren. Most people younger than me probably have no idea what it sounds like and will need to go and watch some other video on it.

"Creepiest Plane" I think you mean the coolest plane.

@paktahn

6 ай бұрын

i would agree its one of my favorite planes of all time

It's referred to as 8mm Mauser, actually. Not 7.92mm.

It would have been more powerful if you, who created this episode. Would have given the sound to this plane, as it would dive.

Brave German pilots!

In Finland, Karelia isthmus 1944 Kurt Kuhlmay`s Stuka`s and JABO`s helped lot against to Soviet massive attack.

Greatest. Dive bomber. Ever.

Why did I think this video was about the U.S. Navy's Helldiver?

The video pic the plane looks like it's smiling

Beautiful airplane!

infrared light, not ultraviolet light

Most interesting. Thank you. i may have had a relative who flew in the Luftwaffe or served in the Wehrmacht but not sure. Franco was a good guy and used Hitler against the Commies. Franco kept the Commies out of Spain for some 35 years.

stuka: STUrz KAmpf flugzeug Dive-fight airplane. Pronounce as STOO KAH

Trumpets of Jericho, lol, thats pretty fucked up.

It's said Japan got the idea to attack Peral Harbor when in the 1930s a Japanese group was invited to watch the Navy making practice runs over the harbor.