Nice.

Very funny, actually...and I mean it.

Bada-bumm-bumm-tsssss

That's punny as hell! I was waiting on a 3rd pun from Simon, after he said the 2nd one was the last. Hopefully he will see it, after tending to his other channels lol

You son of a gun

*Dora the Exploder

*Dora the Zerstörer

@Toughen Up, Fluffy yeah but it sounds worse lol

@latex glove It has nothing to do with nukes but ok...

God made people people made big guns and planes and what not to kill other people

Nowadays they'd call it Karen.

Japan: We built a Bullet Train 1940s Germany: ..........is that some kind of joke?

honestly, the germans should have taken it to the French coast put it on the Cala border build a quickly fortified turntable and use it to blow up important targets OR even better sue this gun to move gun an down the coast blowing up ships, vital military targets or to say hello to the brits (good thing they did not do that) They could be fired up to 29 miles and the distance between Cales and France is 21 miles. And the Germans had the channel islands, and they were only 14 miles away from England stick the gun in a fortified turntable, boom you can shoot 15 miles inland... Dam that's scary to think about

@@historytank5673 the Germans already had some guns that were even able to hit London: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon They did not work that good.

@@1337fraggzb00N The V3 did work - they were a little impaired by being hit with several ten ton bombs dropped by the British.

@@allangibson2408 yes, they worked for a very short time and caused not much damage. The whole project was overestimated. Also even the bombing with Tallboys had not much effect because the whole system was deeply buried and reinforced with concrete. All in all it was just a waste of time for both sides.

All big guns had barrel wear the Iowa class had a barrel life of 300 rounds and WW2 naval battles often saw 50 shots per barrel.

Yes it's similar but with less pain and mental anguish.

Actually it was tradition for Krupps at the time to build the first item for the military free of charge, so it could be put through its paces and see if the requirements were met. The second copy of the gun, named Dora, was bought, for 7 million Reichs Mark (an equivalent of about 25 million US$ in today's currency).

@@Ushio01 We know.

hahahahahahaha yes spot on

nice

Well done!

@snipe69 Historical Correct representation , WW2 German Invading Russia xD

Ratte Mause Elephaun

G R O S S E S E I S E N

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Meanwhile the Allies were dropping far more tons of bombs than Germany was shooting with these mega guns.

"If we can't get the gun there, we will hit the target from here."

They simply need to build a gun that shoots from so far away it's out of the range of the planes

@@totallynotabot5880 2 words....SPACE GUN! It's constantly in orbit, moving thousands of miles per hour. And can use that momentum to toss projectiles without combustion.

That's Nazi Germany's specialty with military weapons

Like the Death Stars from Star Wars...

The result of Krupp bribing 🤷‍♂️

Germans love their super-artillery. From opening WWI with the largest siege mortars in the world, to the Paris Gun, to this thing, they've got a history with these things.

It was more for morale comraderie and propaganda

Dora the Destroyer

@john smith >>> Ditto! 😄😄😄

It's what they were best at! Over-engineering and just throwing themselves at whatever they could think of. Was the Maus (Panzer VIII) ever going to legitimately work as a tank? No way. Did that stop the Germans? Never

@@edwardcardona717 One needn't go all the way up to the Maus - even the Panzer VI, the Tiger tank, was the wrong weapon for the war. It was designed to be a breakthrough tank, to hit Russian fortified positions and break through them. It was designed for short, sharp actions, with plenty of time between engagements for maintenance and repairs. But that's not the kind of war Germany was fighting - they needed something simple and reliable that could quickly reposition instelf.

@@edwardcardona717 eh the maus was nothing compared to the Ratte it never got off the drawing board for obvious reasons but the plan was to make a tank with the main cannon from a heavy cruiser for the main gun it would have been 5 time heavy than the maus

Also upgrade your tanks every 5th one so that none of the parts can be used for the repairs of others.

Hitler's meddling guaranteed failure regardless of the weapons available. As soon as they took on Russia without finishing off England first, it was all over but the fighting. Compounding that fatal error was Hitler's decision to get distracted with dicking around in Greece, which cost them months of delay before invading Russia in June 1941, causing the failure of that blitzkrieg, since it meant they ran out of good weather only a few weeks before they would have gotten to Moscow, if not stopped by Mother Russia's finest ally the Russian winter (see Napoleon).

Or Dora the Exploder.

Pales in comparison to the M65 atomic cannon. It "only" had a range of 24 miles but it fired nuclear shells.

@@atomicskull6405 Eh That is just the ammunition. Could you imagine a 7ton nuke shell from gustav.

@@BackSlash711 The Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki was about 5 tons (10,300 pounds). Considering the need to protect the workings from being damaged by the concussive blast that propels the shell, I'd say a 7 ton nuke at that time would be equivalent to Fat Man.

"Dorothea der Zerstörer"

Arguably, even at the time that's true. The limited resources that might have bought them more infantry, tanks, artillery, and airplanes (and by that I mean not just money but also time, engineering talent, manufacturing infrastructure) were instead diverted into zany super-weapons that looked cool to politicians but were of limited value even if they had worked. Bad as they were, the Nazis would have been even more dangerous if they'd been just as evil but even slightly more sensible. The whole Nazi philosophy was that their system could create stuff like this: super-weapons that may not make sense in capitalist terms but which harnessed the power of a society guided by one vision... blah blah blah. Spoiler: it didn't work. For which we should be very thankful. So in a sense I'm glad that there were lunatic ideas like this, because they unknowingly hastened the Germans' defeat. And, hell, even the average ordinary German probably had a better life than they would have had if the Nazis had won the war.

It's true, the Germans had all the best shit... if they had the resources to back it up, they'd have won for sure

Including your units favorite, the mg-42.

@@theprogram863 I dont believe im about to "devils advocate" the nazis... To be fair, America did build a superweapon that essentially did "end" the war, so the idea of building a futuristic weapon instead of just putting resources into more traditional warfare wasnt totally flawed. They failed to produce a world changing weapon, but the same line of thinking *did* work for America.

@@caseylimbert266 : There are great advantages and disadvantages to top-down political economy. Western Civ is too top-down at the moment. Too easy for the few to cause mischief for the many. We became that way to oppose that way.

But thankfully it didnt, i mean its a technological and engineering feet that was mindblowing at the time. But it was aimed to kill and destroy, but i get you dont mean no wrong by your statement

he still needs another blaze channel where he can blaze about anything, not just business ;)

@Internet Police ...''Highlight History''

@Internet Police Ebery channel?

***allegedly***

@TheDark Dragon That’s just business blaze though… half the videos there aren’t business related :p

THat ammo dump was UNDER the bay? Oh my God that is SO COOL!

Yep, and it also damaged a frigate that was in the bay at the time.

Still not nearly enough to worth so much resources wasted and so much manpower. If that is ALL it did and that is all it did, that cannon was a failure. And it was.

@@Vlad_-_-_ But it's so fucking cool tho.

Credits to the guy that figured out 800mm was the magic number.

Land Cruiser > every other 4x4.

P1000 Landcruiser Ratte

The Ratte wouldn’t have ever made it to a battlefield. Roads couldn’t support it properly, bridges were a no-go and it was far too large for rail. Allied CAS Pilots would’ve been living the dream with a target that size. Hell it was to have been so large and slow strategic bombers would have had a fair shot of hitting it and no matter how thick its armour once a single tall boy or grand slam hit it it was toast.

Land Cruiser crew would be gangsta for about 5 min until tactical bombers show up.

Lada [laughs in off road Russian]

the models are 6 foot long ...apparently

There are some pics and videos of large scale models of Gustav and Dora floating around. We're talking about models that are 10-ft long so there's a lot of detail. So me model maker companies produce plastic and wood models of it, though it might take some searching to come up with one these days.

Don't play dumb, you're not as good as I am 🤣

Unless it was made in Germany. Then it would be Optimus Prime. 😎

I like to think that the pre war transformers just got distracted and stayed in vehicle form, and thats how we got Thomas the tank engine

No, but it would probably be Trypticon's arm cannon.

WW1 Germany: We’ll go through Belgium! France: Ok let’s build a line of forts on the border with Germany. ....Well they came through Belgium last time so how about across their border too? ...What?! Like they’d do the same thing twice!

@@ryanhampson673 That was the plan, though. Board up their border with Germany and force them to take the long way around. Belgian neutrality was a pretty glaring flaw in the plan, though.

It however was indeed, very personal.

@@gaiusjuliuspleaser There are the Ardennes though, not as easy as simply "going around a wall"

The Maginot Line was extremely effective along the French-German border. France's downfall was trusting Belgium to put up a fight when Germany decided to circumvent the Maginot Line instead.

It's making it better!

Dunno about that, I like my Simon Whistler in Biographics etc. mode...

My 3d printer can make a bigger ONE with a silencer, & use Menulog drivers 4 locations around the globe YOU JUST ASK IT COVID MAKES A CASKET

Except the more you read the more you realize most were a waste of resources

JohnFrumFromAmerica The super guns actually destroyed a lot of targets. A 7100kg shell that could penetrate 100m into the ground in 1940 and demolish the Maginot line. Bombers couldn’t do the same till 1945. Ratte was never seriously considered but was no larger than modern earth moving machinary. The Elefant tank could be moved across any river to any location by rail. In small numbers it would work.

@@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs Or just building more bombers, fighters, and Pz 4s (or fix the transmission of the Leopard so that it doesn't fall about every hundred miles, or fix the Tiger so it doesn't keep catching fire), because at the end of the day US manufacturing was measure in bombers/hour, carriers/week, and tanks/minute, so a few bigass guns would be mean exactly jack and shit. Hell, I remember an anecdote saying something like how Shermans wanted better than two-to-one odds to take on a Tiger, which was fine because there were something like a thousand Shermans for every Tiger.

@@zenogias01 Eh, we never had a chance to out-produce the US or russians. We had to do quality! And retooling the lines in the middle of the war couldn't realy be done if you only have so many anyway. Of curse it's not so simple if you have a Führer who fucks half your projects up. For example: we had the first Jet figther who could have given us the full air control over europe. And what does the little painter do? "Put bombs on it to bomb london!" WTF!? The FASTES figther in the war. And he wanted to make it slow enought that prop planes could catch it with the bombs, of witch it could not carry enougth to bomb effective of course, and send it over england where it could shoot down and studied.

Which kit did you build? I build only 1/35, and can't justify paying $900+ for the Soar Models kit. At any rate, the K5e railway gun itself eats up a lot of shelf space and I have no clue where I would put the Dora.

This is why the YT comment section is at times better than the videos.

@@wwiiinplastic4712 I would love that kit. Thing is something like 53 inches long. Check my local hobby shop about getting one when it came out. It would have been 1500 bucks Canadadian plus taxes. and the metal barrel and other add-ons would have put me in the poor house.

Great comment lol. I actually laughed out load for real lol

Remind me not to come to your party

Could you imagine having to crawl inside to clean it?

I think he rather knew where things had gone wrong. It was in many places. For the better, no doubt.

Considering that Speer designed such absurd buildings as the Volkshalle (which once occupied by people would have had its own climate), I don't have much sympathy for him on that account. Also, he worked to glorify Nazi Germany, so he should be given zero sympathy in any case.

Don''t forget that the Germans seriously considered floating 500mm guns in 4x2 arrangement, that would have been bonkers

@@Strothy2 What ship would that be?

@@Brobu a fucking scary one.

@@Strothy2 They also had the genius plan to tow V2 rockets via U-Boot to the U.S. coast to bomb their cities.

@@Strothy2 then the Russians get a 501mm because Russian Naval Bias #WorldOfWarships :P

It was a joke since it consume half of the military budget of france yet did not prevent the downfall of france and belgium too had fortied line still tanks moved around them ..

And the "impenetrable" Arden forest. Not when Guderian was around.

I shall continue to "reverse advance"

@@c.jakobsen1335 Appeasement - a very temporary pain relieve. Although....at times...stuck between two rocks and a hard place.

Why do people just make up shit? This is absolutely false in every regard. You wanna cite your research there?

Well THATS a Blast from the past. Always loved the Commandos games.

Shit...I suppose there's no HD version yet? 😂 Must play now...

Brilliant game.

technically you are incorrect. the mission was to destroy "Thor" which was a heavy mortar used by the nazis.

@@HMSConqueror Well back then it looked like this gun lmao.

And also France didn't extend the Maginot Line (unlike Siegfried Line) all the way to the English Channel as heavily fortifying Belgian border would have indicated that France was not going to defend Belgium in case of an invasion.

@@keraysun Exactly. That was the major reason. The French military wanted the Maginot line to extend that far, and that was the original plan. After all, the generals all remembered when this exact same thing happened in WW1. But the diplomatic corps disagreed and so the compromise was leaving that back door to central France open. The diplomats correctly assessed that France couldn't defeat Germany without the assistance of Great Britain. The British refused to make a firm alliance; they were hoping to resolve differences with the Germans peacefully and blamed alliances for WW1 breaking out. Also, they read the panicked French attempts in the 20s to restrain Germany as dangerous expansionism on FRANCE'S part (which sounds crazy to modern ears but before WW2 made plenty of historical sense). The big irony is that even a maginot line behind them would have helped protect the Belgians. The main strategic value of Belgium for Germany is that it's on the way to France. If you can't easily get to France through Belgium, then there's no point in invading it in the first place. There was talk about building the Maginot line in front of them, but the Belgians weren't willing to commit to that, so the proposal (and the Line) went nowhere. It's a recurring theme in the run-up to WW2: passionate ideology shouting down cold-blooded calculation, and everything the allies did to prevent the war just made it more inevitable and terrible.

Not to mention that the French tanks were a bit lacking in the turret design area. Forcing the commander to multitask to a ludicrous degree whereas the Germans could delegate.

France also under-invested in its air force. An important element in early German success in World War II was the Stuka dive bomber. It was highly effective as "flying artillery" and as a psychological weapon with its screaming sirens but was a sitting duck when facing an enemy with state-of-the-art fighter aircraft and enough of them. France's investment in the Maginot line comes in for criticism, but it did the job it was built to do: it stopped the Germans from trying to invade directly across it. A probably bigger mistake was the French Navy, which ended up doing next to nothing for the war effort other than having to be scuttled after the surrender or sunk by the British to keep it out of Nazi hands. If France had abandoned the naval arms race and put those resources into building a real air force, what soon afterward became the (air) Battle of Britain might have been fought over France instead. In the event, the British weren't about to send aircraft to France that they needed to conserve for home defense, and the French didn't have enough airplanes to challenge the Luftwaffe. The general pattern in land warfare during WWII was that the side with the airpower advantage was usually advancing, and the side with less airpower was correspondingly retreating. The Germans and Japanese had the airpower advantage early and the Allies had it later.

Well the Germans DID come through the Ardennes in WW-1 and even quite a bit further then just that. Also do you think they just drove through an actual forest in ww-2? the Ardennes are a low mountainrange heavily forrested. The Germans used the only decent road to get past it not some offroad action.

@Kung Fu Money Bee Nope. The Ratte was the P.1000, not the P.1500. The Monster was a different beast altogether, basically a Gustav on tank treads instead of rails.

​@@PaulMcElligott I suspect he's conflating the two, since he describes the P.1500 as a tank, not as an artillery gun...

That would deserve a video of it's own, though it never got off the drawing board and many are now questioning how serious it was as a concept.

Designed by a Canadian Gerald bull! +1 for this megaproject

Excellent reference right there XDDD

Glad to see you're okay.

Excellent comment sir!

Lol 😂😂 80cm ego boost

der kanon, good sir, as a matter of grammar :) A canon is off course a male article..

@@KennethRivenes then why name it Dora? 🤔

@@KennethRivenes The article is to the problem it is correct in German canon is female. The problem is he forgot the "t". It should read: "FeuerT die Kanone!"

Manstein

it was Manstein not rommel that planned the Ardennes attack

i see you watch youtube a lot

@@Celtopia My guilty pleasure

@@flaviusclaudius7510 hahahaha

I saw a distinctly right-wing political ad at the start of this video; it just changing the demographic statistics around.

Yup. I didn't see any ads.

All my adds were about a Startrek game @_@

The way Simon said that line put a mental image of a puppy wagging its tail in my mind.

^This!^

I second that motion!

I like it so hopefully he never finds it

I think he's just letting the Business Blaze influence get to him, lol

I'm pretty sure that's business blaze just leaking into all his other channels

Haven't seen him in a blaze? He the guy with the blaze

He's been blazing too much

Christopher Derrah The gun may have been vanished but the business model survived in the form of ink printers.

All Guns need Barrel exchange after a Number of shot. How often depends on the Energy of the Cartridge...

@@severinpridal1355 Seems to me it might have been easier just to make the cartridges a little bit bigger to compensate as the barrel became worn.

Kinda sounds like a Free-to-play scheme don't it?

i'm pretty sure he says "150 tonnes heavier", but it does sound a lot like "150 times heavier".

Ja*

It was mainly Hitler and not the General Staff. It wasn't until later in the war that Hitler had replaced them all with "yes men", and Kietel was such a kiss ass that he was known as "the lackey".

That's worth a video of its own.

Dwarfs it

@@duncanmcgee13 I'm pretty sure the Paris gun had a much longer range.

Paris gun much smaller caliber more of a harassment weapon, not to mention it's own quality and design short comings. Totally inferior, but a valid predecessor to the Gustav. So lucky those Nazi bastards went in for boondoggles like that rather than jet propulsion or say atomic weapons.

@@drewcipher896 thats all the Paris Gun has on it. Maybe even the ability to traverse. But if we're talking about range, the Langer Gustav barrel would have made it outrange the Paris gun by roughly 10km. The German K-12 coastal guns that hit Dover had a range roughly 10km less than the Paris Gun. And theres the V3 canon that could outrange all of them.

It's not really a megaproject though. There's only one example of a railgun in development and that is more just a R&D thing by the US Navy.

Who needs a script?

Honestly I prefer that. I just want him to ramble on. Lol

Yeah, shades of Business Blaze creeping in.👍 Speaking of, how about a bit of meme accountancy? Luckily, I can count to one Rimshots:1 Allegedly:1 Total:2 Love your work, Simon😉

Because he's a legend

it is better when he doesn't to be honest

Like how you ask for help finding something at the grocery, when you’re next to it. 🤣 RE “You don’t notice things until they’re wrong”

Really! It seems ridiculous now, what with ICBM's that can hit anything on earth without an army of people building railroad tracks in front of them

Dylan Perry Yes you are correct, but this was in the early 40’s when the Nazis were obsessed with big, huge, powerful war machines. And back then, this giant gun could bomb a target 25 miles away. This was a 40’s version of an ICBM.

This man has never owned an Audi...

Weird comparison. High end german cars are the best in the world and not that complex

Joshua Patrick Ummm...yes I’ve owned two Mercedes and two Audi’s. Both Audi’s were electrical nightmares. The A5 was finally covered under the Lemon Law.