Ridiculously Overpowered Weapons in History
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There’s an alternate history timeline where Hitler had to be defeated like a boss fight, Riding in a Ratte.
You ever watch The Man in the High Castle?
@@the_regulator1145 No. If you're about to tell me..
@@olknoxlo it’s a good watch. I won’t spoil it.
Ah yes, mecha Hitler from wolfenstein 3D
I believe that was called "Wolfenstein"
I understand that the Ratte was impractical/ expensive to make but just imagine how demoralizing it would be to see/feel that on the battlefield
demoralizing at first for the Allied ground troops, but certainly demoralizing for the German ground troops and mechanics for an eternity
It would be exciting for Allied bombers: "easy prey~"
put a Swastika on it and some simple mindet americans believe it (:-))
Not much considered that even an average soldier can outwalk this thing.
Until you realize it's so heavy it would sink into the ground and be unable to move. Which was one of the only reasons planners were able to convince Hitler not to pursue it.
The ratte is just a battleship with wheels You can’t convince me otherwise
More like cruiser with wheels
@@altraeon6436 even better😈
@@altraeon6436 Yeah makes sense
Well that was the main idea, and it wasn't a radically new idea The "what if we could put wheels on ships" stems back from ww1. And the ratte is just playing with this idea too.
@@hauptmanngilbertoduber9953 there was armored trains. Which were pretty much battle ships on rail
0:07 Ratte Mega Tank 8:06 Schwerer Gustav Rail Super Gun 11:06 Japanese Battleship Yamato 19:06 Zeppelins 21:36 Maus Tank 27:53 Tiger 1 Panzer 6 Heavy Tank 31:18 Char 2C Super Heacy Tank 35:44 The Maginot Line 38:03 Ice Aircraft Carrier Project Habakkuk 40:28 DreadNoughts
project habakkuk was tested via a scaled down model the model took weeks to melt.
I can't believe the Tsar Bomba isn't on a list of OP weapons
@@birdperson2540 Because it was never used in the field as compared to all of this stated in the video or atleast there were plans to use in on the field, besides it has been set aside and never used for the second time so whatever thats left of any other unit is currently in parts and pieces
@@brunobitcharrati Habbakuk never got built, save a prototype.
Thanks a lot dude
I love how some German weapons have silly names, from their largest arsenal being called a "Rat" and their smallest ordinance is named "Goliath" And ironically their weaknesses are both Infantries, Airplanes, and landmines
The Goliath was actually not that silly. It was meant to place explosives from a safe distance and successfully used in some battles.
Not silly, more like counter intelligence To throw off any allied spy within, they named their project "Rat" so that any allied spy that got news of the project would assume the project is something small in size.
The German scientists were secretly a furry at that time.
I actually think it's called the "Rat" because rats are bigger than mice, or "Maus"
And people say the Germans aren't funny
As impractical as zeppelins might sound for war, they had one major advantage: altitude. A zeppelin could ascend in only a few minutes to a height that would take a biplane an hour to reach, and zeppelins were often just too high up to be hit. That definitely didn’t do any favors for their accuracy, but it’s still a pretty big advantage to have a weapon that the enemy simply can’t reach
A little over half the zeppelins that Germany used in raids on britan were shot down iirc. Pretty intimidating, but far from invulnerable
@@CoolAndrew89 That's a survival rate that is on par with far more famous american bombers
@@AdrianOkay Losing 25% of RAF bombers was a disastrous mission so not really true. But total crew casualties is another story, many tens of thousands of people died in the air, close to half of them did die.
@@AdrianOkay and to be a gigantic balloon in the age of machine guns and have a 50% survival rate is pretty impressive.
I find it difficult to even imagine zeppelin used in war. Nowadays they basically exist so old people can look at the lake of constance from higher up. Weird.
All these “overpowered” weapons would’ve been bullied by bombers
Bombs would do nothing to its armor
@@happyhamster9469 but... it would? Do you understand the kind of bombs which b17 carry?
@@happyhamster9469 even if a bomb wouldnt kill it it would track it and then the other 49 in a bomber can plaster that tank and all of its crew, also even an abrams will not survive a direct impact with a 500 kilo or even 250 kilo bomb or missiles or even recoiless rifles, a really big fucking target thats all it is
@@happyhamster9469 you will be surprised on the effects, even if it survive the tracks, main guns and other parts outside were destroyed or damage beyond repair
@@happyhamster9469 they would be able to disable the tracks and guns though
Can you imagine the amount of fuel trucks that would need to follow the Ratte? The allies could just have concentrated their attack on the fuel trucks alone to kill the Ratte.
Yup, tanks win battles, logistics wins wars
@@TheGarfield1337 18th century siege warfare was basically entirely logistics
man, they probably could live in that like a building, how tf you even get INTO that without a specialized scaffolding or somethknf
I was just about to point that out! You're just putting yourself at a massive disadvantage bringing this to the field. It also can't go very fast and can only be used in open areas, no way is that thing getting over a hill.
Which happens to every tank
On the Ratte. It only existed as a few different blueprints. And those few blueprints had slightly different designs (but mostly the same). From what we can tell, it looks like it wasn't a project that was taken too seriously. Or never got past the blueprint stage. It may have been deemed impractical or even impossible with Germany's lack of resources. There is also a possibility that it was an idea conceived over a drunken weekend by a few engineers. Any one who knows engineers knows they like to draw up weird things for fun.
@@sfjp1 of course not, there is a survining turret made for a battleship, that was drawn in some P1000 blueprints as the tank turret.
@@sfjp1 No chassis nor proper turret for the thing was every made, the cannon is made for battleship.
They did build some sweet aluminum scale models of early Ratte designs.
The French also had big tanks designs but those also didn't go far.
The Rattle’s major flaw is the sheer amount of fuel you’d need to burn to move it at all. Germany was always very low on fuel throughout the war, adding this behemoth to their army would basically be making a hyper explosive artillery piece that would bankrupt Berlin in a month.
Another Overpowered weapon often overlooked by Historians is the Design A-150 or "Super Yamato." There were six planned Yamato Class Battleships in three sub-variants designed and planned. Four more hulls were slated to be part of this in 1934 at the time of the designing of Yamato, however these hulls were repurposed for the A-150 Project by the time Yamato was being finalized. The Yamato Designs were also planned to be upgraded over time based on a concept authored by Rear Admiral Kikuo Fujimoto in 1934. The first upgrade of this series were slated for the two ships of the Shinano Group (Including Warship Hull No 111). It was designed to incorporate lessons learned from Yamato and Musashi in time to be utilized on Shinano and Warship No. 111 (The third and fourth Yamato class hull). The design called for a triple bottom, as opposed to a double bottom on the Yamato, the Main Belt’s thickness was reduced by 10mm to 400mm, the Main deck’s flat portion by 10mm to 190mm and the main turret faces by 20mm to 540mm. Extra protection was proposed for the 155 mm (6.1 in) turrets in the form of 25mm added all round (~1 inch). The flag bridge and other flagship facilities would be extended along with an extended conning tower in the front, to improve functionality as fleet flagships. Fuel storage would be sacrificed a touch, due to over estimating how many fuel spaces were needed, to improve weight. Finally, the twelve 127 mm (5.0 in) guns of the 1945 configuration of Yamato would be replaced by 100 mm (3.9 in) 60 Caliber guns in dual turrets on a 1 to 1 basis. It is also speculated that these edits would also be made to Yamato and Musashi as a later refit. In addition later edits, on influence from Yamato's 1945 refit and also Warship 797 and 798, indicate the 155mm (6.1 in) guns on the port and starboard sides of the ship in wing turrets would also be removed. Rear Admiral Kikuo Fujimoto, in his 1934 plan for the Yamato class (which was still being followed in terms of construction) calculated that by 1942, the US Navy would surely know about the 18 inch main battery of the Yamato-class and would start building their own 18 inch armed battleships. To counter this, Fujimoto proposed that the existing Yamato Class, the 4th Program subclass (Shinano and Warship No. 111) and the new 5th Programme subclass (Warship No. 797 and 798) have their main battery increased to 510 mm (20.1 in) guns; which were tested and ready to begin production by late 1944/1945. After the design process finished with an Improved A-140F6 variant design slated for Shinano and Warship No. 111 (see: Yamato Class) of the 4th Programme, there was a new design effort in 1938/1939 to have a new heavier Yamato-class variant that mounted 8-9 of the 510 mm (20.1 in) guns and be protected from the same weapon at a range of 20-30km. The Japanese Elite Admirals of high standing in the Navy preferred the twin gun turret designs due to its larger space for both guns (decreasing reload times), smaller turrets for a slimmer profile and also reports of higher accuracy from dual gun turrets. Also, the 510mm (20.1 in) inch gun had already been developed and produced in 1935 for trials involving both the 460mm (18.1 in) guns mounted to Yamato and the future 510mm (20.1 in) Naval Guns. This design (A-150) was originally part of the 6th Programme that the late designer Fujimoto conceived in 1934 and the other designers followed in the Yamato Project (A-140) of the mid 1930s (even following his death), however it became its own project during its development until focus shifted to further improving the Yamato Class.
The Elite Admirals of high standing in the Navy pushed for a 30 knot top speed initially; however it was feared that due to the main gun size and sheer weight of the turrets, it would increase displacement up to 100,000 tons. A lot of mounting options were considered including triple mount turrets of 510 mm (20.1 in) or even quadruple mounts. Although quadruple mounts were impressive on paper, it proved to be too much as the increase in displacement (way beyond the bounds of 100,000 tons) and decrease in speed (less than 27 knots) made it much more impractical. In the end, before the end of World War II, two designs were considered, a variant with four dual mount 510 mm (20.1 in) guns and a speed of 27 knots at 85,000 tons and a final sub-variant of the previous that could cruise along at 30 knots at 100,000 tons. Secondary Armament on the ships varied as to whether or not they would retain the 2 triple 155mm (6.1 in) guns of the Improved A-140F6 design slated for Shinano and Warship No. 111. No definitive answer was reached, however, before the project shifted in goal. Although general characteristics were vague on how many 100 mm (3.9 in) 60 Caliber guns were mounted, many artist drawings, in reference to plans of Shinano and Warship 111 (Improved A-140F6), called for 12-16 dual mount 100 mm (3.9 in) 60 Caliber guns with 6-8 per side between the main tower and secondary tower. It was also possible that they would mount many dual mount 25 mm (1.0 in) AA cannons (at least 36 dual mounts that were present on the Improved A-140F6 design for Shinano). Although exact armor values of the belt were not certain, the Turret Faces were to be 800 mm (31.5 in) thick while their roofs 295 mm (11.6 in) thick. Although no powerplant is known for certain, it is probably safe to assume the A-150 Variants would be powered by Steam Turbines like Yamato and her sisters. Although hybrid Turbine/Diesel or full diesel arrangements were explored in the A-140 Yamato Project, it was discovered that the Marine Diesel Engines produced domestically were less powerful and less reliable than initially thought. This spurred the push to have the Yamato be powered fully by a Steam Turbine Powerplant which would have most likely not changed by the time of the A-150 design's construction. Although the 5th Programme and the previous 4th Programme (improved variant for Shinano and Warship No. 111) did keep the remaining 2 triple 155 mm (6.1 in) guns, commonly available on Japanese light cruisers, whether they would have ended up being mounted to the A-150 designs of the 6th Programme is in heavy speculation. The reason why the Japanese might have wanted to omit them from the design was that the guns were poorly armored and only capable of protecting the crew from shell splinters due to being 25mm or around 1 inch thick all around. In fact, the Improved A-140F6 variant design, intended for Shinano and Warship No. 111 during their initial construction, called for an extra 25mm to be added to increase the protection to around 2 inches or 50mm as these turrets were plucked directly off of former Japanese Light Cruisers that were rearmed as Heavy Cruisers. Some artist interpretations have the 25mm AA turrets from Yamato in dual mounts represented (at least 36 of those turrets as intended for the Shinano Subvariant Design); while others have them removed completely. In reality, many nations, including Japan studied and found out that the 20mm variants of anti-aircraft weapons were too short range and generally insufficient to shoot down aircraft as the war progressed. As such, many nations explored adding more weapons closer to 40mm that could blow most planes out of the sky in only a few hits. In fact the 25mm AA guns fielded by the Japanese were actually quite terrible weapons due to their limited capacity magazines that had to be changed on a per-gun basis, low rate of fire per gun and were considered (even by the elite admirals of the diet) obsolete by mid-war at the latest (some even considered them obsolete by the beginning of the Second World War). Due to ease of production and abundance of ammunition these guns continued to be mounted; even after they were considered obsolete. It was proposed that 4 ships would be built in this class, however in the meantime, during World War II; multiple things happened that closed the door on this design project forever. Not only would the fourth hull of the Yamato class be broken up and reused for other construction projects as well as Shinano (the third ship of the Yamato class) was converted into an Aircraft Carrier, but also the 4 ships of this class were never ordered. The sobering truth was that the Yamato class as built and in her 1945 configuration after her refit were pushing the limits of Japanese Industry and drydock capacity as the Super Yamato designs would need a new slipway even larger and longer than Yamato and her sisters. In fact, the sheer size of the A-150 design would be impossible to construct very quickly with the quality of steel the Japanese had that would be required for a ship of the A-150’s size and weight. It was also rumored that armor plates would have to be attached in layers in order to achieve the desired thickness on some surfaces. There were many concerns about the cost of these massive ships and also fears that the Imperial Diet would reject such overly large and expensive designs. With this in mind, the Design Department and Elite Admirals in charge of the project refocused their efforts on improving the existing A-140F6 design (Yamato) beyond what was already slated for the variant intended for Shinano and Warship No. 111 of the 4th Programme, keeping to the existing dimensions of Yamato, Musashi and Shinano instead of bigger designs and just replacing the 9 460mm (18.1 in) guns in triple turrets with 6 510mm (20.1 in) guns in dual mount turrets. In a way the A-150 plan was, in its final form, an Improved Design of Shinano slated for the 5th Programme to be built in 1942 with 6 510 mm (20.1 in) guns in dual mounts and 12 dual turrets of 100 mm (3.9 in) guns; retaining the triple 155 mm (6.1 in) guns forward and aft of the superstructure. The loss of Yamato and Musashi, along with the Elite Admirals' switching of priorities to Aircraft Carrier Production (as evidenced by Shinano's Conversion into an Aircraft Carrier) instead of Battleship Construction halted all progress on any further Yamato Class Battleships and their future variants including the A-150 Project. Warships 797 and 798 were originally designed to remove the wing turrets of the original A-140F6 of the 3rd Program (Yamato) and the Shinano variant of the 4th Program in exchange for additional 100 mm (3.9 in) 60 Caliber dual gun batteries, but during this project they had a new lease on life as a further improved variant of Shinano with the 20.1 inch guns under influence from the A-150 Project. This Improved Yamato was borne from the A-150 Project, but would be incorrectly referred to as the Super Yamato or otherwise the Main Design proposed for Project A-150.
I've tried to edit both the Yamato and Super Yamato Wiki pages with more detail regarding their designs and the processes in October of this year, however the users there reverted my changes I spent a month researching on because there wasn't enough specific sourcing (i.e. they wanted page number, line number and word index) in Chicago Manual of Style (which I had up to the chapter name) and basically, when I protested, told me to take a hike and IP banned me from making any further edits. They also didn't like that I called the elite admirals that were in high standing of the navy and also heads of the project "Admiralty" because the Japanese had no concept of Admiralty. I agree there was no concept, but like it or not, the group of elite admirals in high standing would be considered an Admiralty from the standards of the British which the Imperial Japanese Navy was based off of to a degree. The Japanese used a lot of western influences in their politics and their military, but the concepts they used were from the Imperialist Era. They had Imperialist Ideals way later than other nations and by that time the other countries had grown out of Imperialism. This obviously lead to conflict and war. The Japanese were just behind the times and fought an aggressive war due to the pro-war politicians and warmongers in the military factions that always wanted to bureaucratically have the Emperor's ear. Emperor Showa hated the Chinese and Koreans as they had been blood enemies for centuries so he allowed the war (even though he had no official vote at the time) to take revenge on a centuries old blood feud between them, the Chinese and the Koreans. When the US intervened, by oil embargoing them, it was an act of aggression to the Japanese, but from America's perspective, they were wary of another war and wanted to prevent Japan from waging war by preventing trade of oil to their shores (a key resource in war). This was a ticking timebomb to war which resulted in Pearl Harbor. The highly corrupted Bushido code being taught to the Imperial Soldier meant that to them, the Geneva convention meant nothing and that surrender brought shame so great that the POW in Japanese captivity should take his own life or be assisted by a Japanese soldier. Those who refused were treated brutally as if they had no human rights (were a lower life form), but not nearly as brutally as the Chinese and Koreans (the so-called rape of Nanjing was the worst massacre and war crime that the Japanese army had done during the war). The stubbornness of the Japanese when the war turned against them was impressive, but from the case of the Japanese it was a life or death struggle for them and they wanted to prevent any non Japanese from touching the Emperor's soil at all costs. The Atomic Bombs had to be dropped on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki; not only to end the fighting early, but to also appeal to the emperor's humanity that his subjects are being killed, not just his own soldiers in suicide attacks within special attack groups (known as kamikaze by the allies), but his civilians as well. This lead to the imperial re script which commanded Japanese forces to lay down their arms and surrender. Although Showa wasn't clean by any means during the war, he was influenced by the factions in the government more than he actively participated which lead him to be absolved; at least in part of any war crimes he was responsible for. It was decided that he would become a figurehead under American direction to keep the Japanese from revolting against the military occupation of Japan. The Emperor renounced his divine status and the original Meiji constitution was changed, further defining the role of the emperor to that of a figurehead and brought more modern Western values and rights to Japan.
The super-Yamatos would honestly be a downgrade on the Yamatos. 9 18” guns were already more than enough to penetrate any amount of belt or deck armour ever put on a ship; 6 20” guns reduce the chances of hitting significantly (because fewer guns) while not really providing a meaningful firepower advantage (the bigger shell size is cancelled out by the fact there are only 6 shells per salvo).
There was a US super Montana design armed with eight 18-in guns and the secondary battery of fully automatic 6-in guns and a whole mess of automatic 3-in anti-aircraft guns
@@jamesricker3997 the only change considered for the Montana's was an early concept by which 18-in guns in four or three dual turrets would be installed. The 18-in 45 caliber was in fact produced and ready for the Montana class; however the Navy department decided that 12/16-in guns would be more beneficial and the fact that the Montana would Cruise along at a much faster speed than the Yamato and have a much heavier (due to American super heavy Armor piercing round) and more accurate broadside made the decision quote clear. The variant with 18-in guns only had a 27 knot top speed. It was pretty set in stone, especially by the end of its development, that the secondary armament would be 5 in 60 caliber guns combined with a lot of 40 mm and 20 mm anti-aircraft guns. In truth the aircraft carrier had superseded the battleship and thus the Navy decided to focus their efforts on the Essex class and the work on the Montana was abandoned. Whatever design you were referring to is highly fictitious and belongs to the likes of wargaming for their world of warships games.
Fun fact: The battleship gneisenau has its turrets removed with one of them part of the Atlantic wall in Norway and the other two for the ratte (the other two were scrapped) allowing gneisenau to receive the 380mm gun upgrade
Oh really
The replacement off its 280mm to 380mm was in the works long before the ratte was a twinkle in anyone's eye. The outbreak of ww2 delayed it, but the ratte was never even considered for production in the slightest.
however Gneisenau never received the 15" gun upgrades.
@@raymartcarreon6069 *Scharnhorst* never got the upgrade
@@nitsu2947 1
Everyone knows Maus and Rat, but gangsta until the Germans build the *“Cat”*
so the Tiger and Panther?
ameri-tin cans will build the cat bomber plane.
@@Kalashnikov413 Don't forget the Lowe.
Those gigantic big tanks would be easy targets for aircraft. If you have no air supremacy, your ground vehicles (of all sizes) are sitting targets.
Except that bombers at the time we're notoriously inaccurate and had difficulty hitting even a static target...
@@kettilkroh3987 then send fighter bombers, they existed at the time. A dozen fighters with bombs and anti tank rockets against a big slow ginormous sitting duck….
@@kettilkroh3987 Yo genius ever heard of close air support? Bombing raid were innacurate by design since their goal is to destroy vast swaths of terrain but close air support was the opposite it's meant for close and precise bombing of strategic target such as tank, gun positions and bunkers the stuka and spitfire were famous example of planes capable of close air support and their accuracy was good enough to make any tank operating without air superiority an easy target. This is why their were no tanks at Normandy the division sent there got pinned down by a mix of resistance activity and ally air forces. The ratte would have made incredible target practice for an ally air wing it's big profile and armor thickness very reminiscent of a battleship, famous for constantly being sunk by bombing runs. *Despite* having AA guns
@@zebaguettefromfrance1287 i would argue against the two examples of close air support planes, seeing as while both were used in thoes capacities, they had different roles, the spitfire as o fighter and the stuka was primarily a bomber used in similar capacities to JU 88s and he 111s with bridge hunting roles thanks to its high percision, except G and D variations which were respectively srmed with the bk 3.7cm or the mg151 or mg 17 gun pods. Planes like the 109, 129, 190, for the krauts. Typhoon, Hurricane and probably the tempest for the brits, and the 47 and 38 for the yanks. Though with some of the vehicles in the vid here, some heavy bombers could have been used to take them out, specifically, the Avro lancasters with the tall boy bombs or whatever theit named. Not dissing on your overall argument though, im just being a nerd.
@@damine2264 Using Tall Boys on a Ratte would only be effective with an extremely accurate hit, not to mention the tall boy was essentially designed to create small earthquakes to destroy buildings, whereas a small flight of any heavy fighter bomber equipped with rockets and bombs would be able to supress the Air defenses of the Ratte and at the very least disable it since its such massive target. And by then it'd be a sitting duck for infantry and artillery if it couldn't be repaired quickly, and given the size of the vehicle would almost certainly be out of the question. Even if it could shrug off attacks or somehow perfectly protect itself from air attacks, it's still a huge unit dumped onto a single part of a frontline, and thus could be easily avoided by use of either speed or natural terrain like hills. Not to mention the logistical strain it'd even put on the Germans to field one meaning other nearby units would suffer since all their resources would be poured into a single massive sitting duck that couldn't manuever, cross rivers, or cross terrain features and whose ability to defend itself from faster units or aircraft was questionable at best. Doesn't matter how accurate the bombs are when your target's essentially a massive building you're bombing at low altitude
I love how the imperial navy built this huge leviathan of a ship intended to steamroll naval battles but when it came time to use it went "my poor baby" and withdrew it and barely used it. I think there's probably a lesson here. Overinvestmrnt? Too much attachment?
No, a simple lack of opportunity to use the thing.
@@bkjeong4302 I disagree. I think it’s Moreso the fact they didn’t have much in the way of anti-air defense on the ship, meaning that any carrier they came against, it would have to have back up ships for cover fire for it.
@@micahdadbeh5955 Good AA wouldn't have made the thing useful in a carrier-dominated environment, not when that doesn't change the fact it can't attack a carrier. This was actually the reason WWII-era battleships in general (not just Yamato: literally all of them were just as pointless) were obsolete upon launch: battle ranges had become extended to the point they literally couldn't attack the enemy.
Is like an athlete that catches neumonía before every race.
A bit too late and based on old doctrine, more like. By the time Yamato was deployed, with the loss of the Kido Butai at Midway, no amount of strategy would have been able to employ her effectively. Regaining air superiority was impossible, as there was neither time nor industrial capacity to replace the lost carriers, much less at the rate the Americans were churning out the Essex-class. An important thing to note about carriers is they serve multiple roles in naval combat. Aviation is rapid and can fly around and thus allow you to see over the curvature of the earth. Not only could aircraft conduct attacks at longer ranges, carriers could scout their own targets without assistance, thus allowing their escorts to provide defense for them instead of scouting.
Why did it take so long for a nerf after the wars 💀
Remember what happened after the first patch and everyone complained? They got a new CEO and buffed the weapons beyond belief
@lShowSрееd 🅥 L
The devs couldn’t compress the file enough and micro transactions took over.
Habbakuck: I wonder what thermite bombs would do to a massive pycrete ship.
Not all that much really. So long as the refrigeration plants were running, the thermite would have begun burrowing through the vessel only for newly formed ice to reseal the hull above it. Basically the pykrete was regenerative armour. I dare say that had enough German bombers arrived to pummel it with incendiaries they could have caused appalling damage, but how those bombers would get themselves out to the mid Atlantic where the ship was destined to spend its life, or how they would have overcome the hundreds of fighters it carried onboard is anyone's guess! Habakkuk as a project was the product of desperation during the darkest days of the U-boat menace. As the tide of the war in the Atlantic turned, Habakkuk went from being the last hope for control of the ocean to being completely pointless.
@@CountScarlioni that the termite would just melt through is not correct. Ice that is hit by thermite tends to explode. the expansion of the heated ice around the termite would cause a lot of stress and might rip the whole thing apart. turning the refrigeration up to control melting would cause the rest of the thing to contract, which would increase the stress. of course hitting it with a bomb in the first place is really hard to achieve. maybe hitting it with V1 or Mistel from the distance might do the trick.
@@ulrichkalber9039 IF you could get a concentrated amount of thermite in one area, then yes I agree, the damage from steam explosions alone would be considerable in that section. A barrage of those could well kill the carrier. As I understand it though WWII incendiary munitions were highly dispersed as their intent was to start fires over a wide area. With the Habakkuk being a relatively small target compared to a city, and having a steel deck plate to burn through even before reaching ice, I don't think those small clumps of thermite raining down would be enough to make a lot of small, rapidly refrozen puddles. Delivery of a concentrated amount of thermite would require special munitions. But the Habakkuk's intended station was the middle of the Atlantic where it could provide anti-sub air cover in the gap between UK and US air defences. It was never intended to go anywhere near the European coastline. Because of that, V1s are not the delivery system. They had a range of about 200km so had no chance of reaching out over 1500km into the Atlantic. They also had an appalling accuracy. Literally whatever you aimed them at, they would only hit a target within 8-9km of that location. They're also vulnerable to interception by those hundreds of fighters on board. So even if one could somehow get in range, it's chances of hitting the carrier would be negligible. V2s were somewhat better at targetting and can't be intercepted, but they still only had about a 300km range. If the Habakkuk existed, and the Nazis had enough sea power left to deal with it, then I'm sure they would have devised some method of destructive attack. But up against something with a dozen aircraft carriers worth of planes defending it would have been a tall order. Anti-ship missiles would have made short work of Habakkuk, but examples powerful and long ranged enough wouldn't be invented for a decade or more.
The Ratte is something I really wish could have worked. The idea of land-cruisers tickles my brain
“I really wish it could’ve worked” … Meaning more allied troops would’ve died.
As in they would make it and fail to use it not to get to the front and crush any ant that is unlucky enough to get in its way
16:31 “They attempted to take the island of Midway. The us navy was ready for the attack. They sank Japan’s carrier, actually it was a lot of them. It was a battle that the Japanese navy would never recover.”
Ah I see...your a true man of culture
@@anthonyrufino9271 who said that again?
@@hyperx72 this enraged hyperx72's father, who suddenly comes home with the milk, and punished him severely
Japanese Codes Orange and Purple were broken long before December 7th 1941. In fact Isoroku Yamamato sent a message back to Japan on Dec. 6th reporting the attack would commence. A radio office on Oahu intercepted the message and telegraphed it to Washington D.C. eager to join the war. The American government allowed this to happen to create a false flag attack as it has in ever major global conflict to defer public opinion to go to war to make MONEY!!
@@nitsu2947 lawl that's one way to tell me!
Overpowered: Yes Reasonable: Mostly likely not
@Nоt RiскrоII 🅥 Good stuff 👍
@@danielnavarro537 dont tempt them man
And they should have covered the Yamato's conversion into the mighty Space Battleship Yamato armed with the Wave Motion gun and it's Space Warp drive to battle the Gamalon Empire.
The Yamato was probably the best thing they could do in their attempts to win the war, but it ran into the issue of numbers. No matter how powerful it is, a single ship can't really win an entire war by itself.
The Yamato was destined to fail. They would have gotten more if they used the metal for aircraft or aircraft carriers.
@@mpondachongo1138 It still wouldn't matter because we were sinking ships faster than Japan could build them, especially after summer 1944.
LOL no😂 It only fires once at an enemy ship, and that was its service til it sank
The problem with superweapons is that it's an easy way to control the enemy's targeting priorities, because your land-battleship will have every bomb and artillery shell aimed at it. Nukes are the exception, but only because of the potential tiny size and huge numbers
That's if the thing even worked
@@mpondachongo1138 historically, a superweapon don't have to work to motivate your enemy to counter it
@@frankhaugen but the Allie's had more than enough resources to incapacitate if not destroy the land ship. It was a wast of resources and would have been a logistical nightmare to even operate.
The ratte would’ve needed a convoy of anti-air vehicles or a screen of fighter planes circling overhead, similar to how vultures lurk a corpse. IF there was a way to take away the threat of bombardments and a way to actually get the thing moving on a battle field I don’t think there was much allied technology could do to stop it other than flank and take out the crew (HALO 2 scarab anyone?) Even then it’s ability to draw key assets on the battle field would’ve made it a key asset itself. I can only imagine the amount of bait/switch strategies and the ensuing cat/mouse games. Edit: needless to mention the demoralizing effects it would have on opposing ground troops and the pressure it would put on opposing commanders and strategists into over-committing counters for it (at least at first.) Absolutely nobody would expect the firepower of naval cannons nor a mobile headquarters deep inland
Avoid it, it would only be effective if it could keep up with all the changing factors on a battlefield
@@nonstopsat key word being if
Artillery would be a problem for it too consideirng it's speed and size.
You would have to construct roads for this tank to move at all. It's 100% impractical. If it had nuclear power maybe? But not capable for germans at the time. Wouldn't be able to move on inclines. The main gun wouldn't be able to depreciate fire, yes as mentioned artillery, air power, flanking attacks would all effected. The hydraulic systems alone that would need constant care. You would need an engineer Battalion on board. Let alone gun crews.
If you wanna see how it would have worked, just look at the closest comparison that actually existed: the Yamato. Aka 90% of the time on maintenance and then just utterly humiliated at the end.
that was the most abrupt ending I've ever seen in a video
I thought you were joking.....some editor is in trouble
Seeing all the crazy land and armor designs that were made essentially useless because of air power really makes me want to read an alternate history book about World War 1 and 2 set in a world where we never managed to discovered flight or some other reason that prevented the usage of aircraft.
You’d really have to come up with some kind of reason flight was never discovered and not just a cop out of saying the wright brother’s never flew
Left out: The Yamato didn’t see much use in battle because it used so much fuel. I believe that it embarked on its final mission with only enough fuel to get there, but not to return.
the ice carrier was actually a good idea , especially when sawdust was added for strength . it would have been very tough
Cursed from the start .. didn't he shoot an officer on a ricochet when he was demonstrating how tough the material was? Lol 😆
They should have continued working on the carrier. I would have wanted to see a massive ice ship docking in a shipping harbor when I went cruising.
It was never a good idea. Save maybe the whole ship is one big pile of pulp floating as you wait for rescue
@@derekmcnulty2559 it would have been suicidal for anything that could attack it. It would have been large enough for hvy bombers. It was more a floating Airbase than a carrier.
@@cannonfodder6299 you make it sound like a wolfenstein indestructible castle nah it’s literally an iceberg with guns on it
The MythBusters did a great job testing the Pykrete ship idea.
Nice video as always! You could do a short video about the German BV-238 plane, it is also quite interesting!
man, imagine being in a small tank and seeing the ratte slowly turn it's barrel to face you
Simply drive away lol
@@chorus2344 drive away? Ever heard about AIMING to where you are running?
Fun fact, the Ratte would actually be able to float, also helps that it would have to be built like a battleship essentialy
source?
@@Kalashnikov413 trust me bro Its really just logic really
@@nitsu2947 My source is that I made it up!
man i love spreading misinformation in the internet
@@nikitascobelev3369 “it came to me in a dream”
Fun Fact: In the last mission of Sniper Elite 3, you can destroy the prototype of the P-1000 Ratte mega tank.
What's fun about it?
@@mikerodgers7620 That people like you cry about it! XD
And in 4 you destroy the mighty rail cannon. And the wunderwaffe jet bomber.
@@Some_Guy6 and... In "return to wolfenstein" you fight against Hitlers secret Monster in the crypta. 🐙
@@mikerodgers7620 Snipe elite is a good line of games if you like sneaking and shooting without having to be a rattlesnake on crack playing against people with 0.000005sec reaction time.
That meth really had a kick didn't it?
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I remember seeing the Ratte in Sniper Elite 3 and seeing the rail gun in Sniper Elite 4. I kinda wish they made it where we had to fight one of these tanks. That would have been epic.
And the Doragun was used in Blazing Angels 2 (basically a WWII version of Ace Combat). Man, that timed mission was tense!
The ratte staring up at the 80k pounds of bombs dropped on it from 4 b-29’s as soon as it left the factory (it’s stuck on a bridge that crumbled under it’s weight and is going to be annihilated)
“Ahhh… Scheisse” Commanding officer aboard the ratte
The maginot line was made to make the germans attack through Belgium it was also intended to be joined with a Belgian line to stretch from Switzerland to the North Sea.
But Swiss neutrality....
Yes, the whole '...and the Germans just went around it' thing that usually gets mentioned whenever this comes up was precisely the point in the Maginot Line. The line would force the Germans to attack through Belgium and then the French would move their army into Belgium and fight them there. The French did not want to see the widespread destruction that WW1 brought on their own territory again. The Maginot Line was quite successful in terms of its intended purpose.
@@stepal6958 never heard anything like that. Maginot line was not built to be by passed. At its north western side is the Ardennes region, a mix of small hills and swamp that were considered impossible for German tank to cross. Belgium was anyway neutral in the war until German attacked them... Sooooo how could that be planned to let an enemy country invade thought a neutral one?
@@mwata1445 I mean, attacking through Belgium is exactly what Germany did in WWII...
0:26 Tej: Ah guys we need to come up with a different plan… they have a tank! Roman: I’m sorry did you say that they have a tank? Do you have a plan B? Tej: Plan B? We need a plan C, D,E, we need more alphabets!
Germany: I like big tanks and I can’t lie. You other countries can’t deny
Japan: We like big ships without a doubt.
I was in one of the fortresses of the maginor line and it´s abolutely impressive. You can get lost there. It´s almost like a city underground. They even have their own rail system. They even showed us the mechanism of one of the big artillery guns.
I have to admit, your pronounciation of French words is amazing. Well done. Merci =)
Just imagining a canon firing shells that weight 7 tons at a distance of roughly 30 miles (50 km, rounded) is mind blowing...
Great content as always , thank you Simple History.
Nice profile picture.
When you have no others ideas left:
Allied Power(To Axis power): “How and why you guys keep making your tanks bigger, better and even being a bit Overpowered as well?” Axis power: “Because Bigger is Better.”
And look were they ended up
Better is extremely debatable tho.
You guys could probably make a whole video on the battle Yamato was forced to fleet from. Samar was... something nobody expected to happen on a lot of levels.
omg when Yamato was forced to fleet i was like omg yeet u know what i mean?
T-35 is the closest we got to a landship tank, and it was not really too good... The size meant the armour had to be thin and trying to hit anything on the move with 5 turrets was tough. Not to mention the atrocious turning rate. Can't argue that it looked impressive, however.
Finnish AT gunners when they see a T-35 moving at 10mph towards them
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Man when Hitler pulled out a raygun and said “it’s hitler time!” And hitlered all over the jews was a weird point in the war
29:10 "Ausf." is short for "Ausführung" and can be translated with "version".
Of all the criticisms of the Ratte the argument that the vehicle travelling at 25 miles per hour was far too slow is totally erroneous. It is 1131 miles from Berlin to Moscow. Travelling at 20 miles per hour for only ten hours per day would have theoretically allowed the Ratte supertank to reach Moscow in less than 6 days.
Curious about fueling stations along the way, and fuel capacity of the tank itself in the logistics of said trip.
@@JK-gm6kk also that 1131 miles is a fairly direct route over a far few bridges ect it couldn't crosd
Hitter: WE NEED SOMETHING BIG! Guy: Why not this? *Shows plans for “THE RAT”* Hitter: PERFECT!! 😈
Very cool video, excellent graphics, and his research is on the mark, from what I know anyway. Glad I watched the vid.
Tbh, i wish i could see a real life p1000 Ratte and a P1500 Monster.
The Ratte: "what if we get a five year old to design a devastating weapon of war" that resulted in a land battleship...and eventually inspired land carrier-light cruiser (artillery) tanks in such shows as GI Joe's General tank and Gundam SEED/SEED Destiny's Lesseps-class and Hannibal-class.
Great video as always! I'd be really interested in countries history ✨😎‼
The Ratte just could have happened , but it could be built now as a Wooden / Composite static tourist attraction ..The Pycrete had an incident when Lord Montbatten wanting to prove how tough the Stuff was pulled out a revolver and shot it , the bullet went off it and hit another man in the Boardroom in the leg , luv the Animation for the vid.
For the maginot line, we have also the south maginot line, which was very useful front of Italians
I’ll gladly watch almost an hour with this man’s voice
Ear pollution the way he pronounces some words though.. interesting to watch and some of his content is outdated now due to lots of other channels covering this topic and lots of others year's ago now.. but still, interesting to watch cos who doesn't like war history.
"You Can't Be Op If Everyone is Op"
Slight correction, the M42 was never put internally in a tank. It had to do with the way the barrel was changed from the side and not the rear that made it unable to be used internally mounted.
Nukes are insanely OP
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The Ratte mega tank appeared in Sniper Elite 3 and the iceberg carrier Habbakuk as a supership boss in the Naval Ops games
I love a video that jumps straight into the video without a bs intro😂 got my like🎉
i honestly wish that one of the Ratte mega tanks had been built. Imagine how cool it would be to look at one in a museum
With its size, the Ratte could probably _be_ the museum.
How could simple history forget the bob sample tank Edit: Bob semple
Bob semple
@@seashellguy9416 dude I fucking edited it can you not fucking read
@@Rando423 bro its a joke comment
The Ratte would have made very nice target practice on both fronts.
Ze Germans: “Sie können uns nicht aufhalten; unsere massiven Panzer sind viel zu stark!” (You cannot stop us; our massive tanks are far too powerful!) Every Allied faction with an air force & common fucking sense: “Wanna bet?”
Love it, no useless intro, no unnessesary talking around the topic, just what we came for. For that we leave a Subsribe
We were soo close to just going full 40k and I'm saddened we didn't lol
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You need a tank like this (not this big but bigger than regular tanks) if you want to build an electrically powered tank with high power railguns
Ok
Ratte is an attempt to realize the dream of a land battleship in the drawings without taking into account new weapon systems. I'm not saying that this tank was impossible to disguise and it would be the number one target for aircrafts, but by the end of the war, anti tank missiles appeared, and the creation of dozens of Ratte led to development in a month hybrid of Isu-152 and B-1-P 180 mm gun, maybe with a sawn-off barrel, but it would pierce at least 360 mm from 2 km with an APDS or APFSDS; it would be relatively compact and much cheaper than Ratte.
About the maginot line, the French did actually prepare for the Germans to invade Belgium. What they didn't prepare for was Belgium turning neutral and kicking out french garrisons before the war. They also didn't prepare for an invasion through the Arden forests, as that hilly landscape was deemed "impassible".
fun fact about the Musashi: it displaced so much water that when it was launched it caused the bay to overflow and flood several homes near the shore
last time I was this early, these wepaons still existed
6 adds already in 4 minutes space em out mate.
This is the reason why Germany never got nukes.Hiter wanted more of things like the panther and tigers that’s were already made so they never focused on making nukes as much as the US
10:20 not many sources about it but there was a second one in production as prototype. She's called the "Schwerer Fett Bertha" got some old military plans :)
I love these videos. I've been a massive fan for years! So much so that I actually made my own channel (it focuses on History as well) thank you for the inspiration! I wish I had the same cartoon style you have but... I'm just a small KZheadr
1:01 bros a whole cargo ship
Great content. Video suggestion: IL-2, a WW2 Soviet ground attack aircraft, renown for its firepower, durability, and mass production
In mentioning the super weapon that was Yamato, they forgot to mention that other super weapon that stopped them, the brass balls of the tin can sailors and airmen of the Taffy’s. Particularly those of Captain Evans and his crew of the Johnston, who made the initial charge…alone.
It was my understanding that it was tin can ships that scared off the Yamato from Midway. Had it sailed around to the invasion fleet, it would have destroyed the entire invasion force.
Churchill was enthusiastic about the idea, but in the morning he was sober again.....
Dude this stuff is fascinating
It is
I wish the Ratte would have been built. Probably never would have seen battle, so instead, it would have become a massive museum after the war ended
The Ratte made me think of the game and anime Valkyria Chronicles
german : p 1000 ratte japan : ijn yamato italy : what don't look at me like that
Loved the toilette detail 😂
I love how people explain stuff and how it was built, but they don't understand that welders always have had hoods to cover their face. So many people think googles for hot work are what people used to weld with. If you tried that your face would literally be baked from the UV radiation. 🤣
So wearing Googles like a Camouflage protection Tool? Is the senseful? Sound interesting and ridiculous and the same time. :D Never Heard of it as a german 🤔
I wasn't aware that welding with an acetylene torch would create any UV radiation.
You work in the shipyard and work for osha bro
@@peterlustig2143 though what op is saying is barely comprehendible and rather uninformed but I think he's saying that people used full hoods for welding and not googles... I don't know why op commented about it though... Aslo the second part of the comment is making my brain cells commit self deletion😅
Ummm we all me goggles right? Googles is the all powerful information overlords that are censoring out information streams right? Dictating our thoughts thru instruction of info… not helping protect against uv rays🤣🤣🤣
A way to destroy it trak it via artilery or a 120 mm cannon shell and then just bomb it airstike it shell it or just nuke it or a massive air raid
7:44 They had enough issues getting *ONE* complete Maus (and part of another) finished. The Ratte was totally out of the question - as was the "Landkruiser" version of the Gustav/Dora rail guns, at 1500 tons (8:07 and on) - the Gustav and Dora got built, and at least one of them got used at Sevaspol, but otherwise they were a waste. And yes, it IS known that a second gun (Dora) was constructed - what is unknown if that second gun ever saw action.
As soon as I read the title and saw an iron cross in the thumbnail, I knew it'd be good.
I wish the Japanese had surrendered before losing the Yamato so we could visit and board it today
Same
There would be a good chance that the allies would have sank it or scrapped it.
@@metaknight115 u think?
@@zwarrior4593 Yes. As much as I would love to visit Yamato today, Japan would not have been allowed to keep Yamato if she survived the war. If she got into British hands, 72,808 tons of metal would be going into the scrapyards to help broke Britian. They scrapped most of their own battleships, and would not spare an axis ship. At least she could have made enough money to save HMS Warspite. In American hands, she would be used for testing with her guns and armor, specifically against Iowa class battleships. After that, she would either be kept as a warprize or sunk as a target ship.
And to think that when I was a kid playing video games I never for once thought you crazy mega tank bosses actually existed in real life... I thought those monsters of war were just in video games... school also only taught us of regular sized tanks... what a rip! Imagine discussing these in class!
If you're talking about the ratte and maus, they really didn't actually exist. As they said in the video they had prototypes built for the maus but for obvious reasons they never went any further than that. The Tiger 1 was definitely a real thing but that was basically just a good quality but otherwise regular heavy tank
They didn't exist in real life, the video literally says the ratte tank was never actually built
If it could go thru 17.7 inches of class A armor. that’d defeat the thickest single piece of armor ever put on a battleship, the conning tower of the Iowa class.
Zeppelins and "Ride of the Valkyries". Perfect! Zeppelins, also known as "AA Sponges". Perfect, as long as you're not in one.
The funny thing that the Ratte Mega Tank was inspiration of other fictional mega tanks we saw in videogames.
Battlefield? Behemoth?
@@travelinman790 you mean the char 2c?
should have also inspirere the baneblade from 40k
@SELCOUTH BEATS XD you right!!
The fact that it withstood 8 torpedos and multiple bombing is actually really impressive.. could’ve been somethingmore with better strategy I think
Great video, but how about giving both imperial and metric numbers? As it is now, its all mixed xD
Congrats for hitting 4 Million Subs Comrade
Hitler's Giant tank is just ridiculous. It's just a giant Target that moves very slowly and takes a really long time to fire you can just hit that tank over and over and over and over even while it's moving