British anti-aircraft guns defend England from V1 flying bombs (1944)
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British anti-aircraft guns on English coast destroy V1 early cruise missiles during WWII
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SLATE INFORMATION: Walls of Steel: How Britain's Anti-Aircraft Guns Defeated the Flying Bomb
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Background: British anti-aircraft guns on English coast destroy V1 early cruise missiles during WWII
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The British 3.7 in AA gun, comparable to the German 8.8 cm but with a slightly larger calibre of 9.4 cm, could have been a superb anti tank weapon on a field carriage.
I don't understand you but ok. (⌐■-■)👍
Would have been great set up on a decent tank chassis, pity we shunned the Russians when they offered all the plans for building a T34 to us , instead we had the Churchill and Cromwell , and the Tommy cooker
@@laverdajota8089 probably for the best that Britain didn’t try and build the T34. It was a completely different tank than what the British were used to. The T34 is in my opinion overrated, was it a war winning weapon for the Soviet Union? Yes, was it the best tank during ww2? No. The Sherman is probably a better tank if you consider crew ergonomics and western construction methods.
The problem is they couldn't put a body to it, unlike the germans manage to build a body around the 88, resulting the tiger
They sort of did, the 28pr and 32pr guns are both based off the 3.7 inch gun though at least for the latter ammo was not compatible, 28pr was meant as a slot in replacement for the 17pr (so any tank like A30 or Tog II could hypothetically have had a more multi purpose gun if needed), 32pr was fitted in Toirtose.
That rate of fire is crazy high
My Grandmother is in there somewhere. RIP Nanna.
My father was an engineer during the war at Solex. Day time in a factory, at night an AA battery commander at Battersea (using AA rockets in the Blitz). He helped design and build a system where radar tracking units controlled a slaved battery of 3.7inch AA guns. These batteries were placed across Kent. He said that by late '44 they had a 100% hit rate for V1 on the usually predicted paths. New light V1-ramps gave German launch flexibility so bypassed some of these defences. Air intercept (eventually with the Meteor) remained important. The revolutionary radar fuse was also part of this success. Not to forget the 20/minute rate of fire, amazing for such a big gun. He had earlier been involved with the 6 pounder (57mm) antitank gun. He said everyone knew 3.7in (94mm) had potential but the 17 pounder (76mm) got the Antitank role, and did very well. AA remained high priority and it would have taken alot technically, doctrinally and logistically, to adapt this much bigger gun to the other role. Post war, most tank guns moved to 105mm.
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Thank you for sharing that story.
I'd have love to been one of those gun operators
A version of of this gun and 17 pounder where used in Burma artillery duels with Japanese 97mm guns and against Japanese aircraft my grandfather was a gunnery Sgt in Royal artillery regiment.
outstanding efforts
Hitting an aircraft with those weapons.. I think it was hard as fck.
I was thinking how happy you would after see one of those exploding in the air thanks to you.
@@elblitzb yeah!!
They didn’t have to hit the plane - they just had to get the shell near the plane.
Find range > set fuze time > aim > fire in late-war we have proximity fuze. shell will explode when detected nearby object after , so no need to set fuze time.
Weren't those guns automated?
Once the flightpaths of the V1's became known and more understood, many of the guns were moved inland, along the known V1 flightpaths. It was then the rates of successful hits really began to improve. It's possible to see from the train of bursting shells in the film, that the fire became quite effective.
Incredible !! 💥💥💥
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It boggles me, why couldn't the Brits fit this awesome gun into a turret of a MBT, with suitable modifications like the Jerries did with their 88's. If they had even tried and succeeded, it would have beaten many a panzer division back into their holes. Guess some things were never meant to be.
it was meant for anti aircraft defense like the German 88. The Germans was forced to use it as anti tank guns at one point and just used it from there on
From my understanding after the armistice WW1 agreement the Germans were forbidden to build certain weapons tanks subermaines big calibre guns and powered aircraft. the Germans got round that by sending over there engineers to work in other countries like Sweden Where they "helped" the Swedes on certain projects like the bofers 30 and 40 mm Anti aircraft gun and tracked vehicles one of these secret projects was the famous 88mm flack gun incorporated in the design into the gun was the ability for a Anti tank gun roll. But According to the armistice this was apparently not Allowed but when adolf Hitler came to power all pretence was dropped and a out and out rearmamenment program went into full swing Germans were ploughing straight ahead and openly developing military weapons regardless in the 30 the fruits of there labours was The. ME 109. All metal fighter. MG 34 machine gun and U-boat development Anfd the famous 8.8 mm gun.
Pretty sure it has a lot to do wth the fact that to build a tank capable of moving and withstanding the blast from such a gun, they'd have to make the tank so ludicrously big it would stand out more than a battleship on the horizon XD. Sure, big gun is good but all the firepower in the world can't help you if you stick out like the sun in the midnight sky.
@@devvytm Point taken. True that.
@@soultraveller5027 It appears to me after reading The Arms of Krupp, they continued to manufacture all types of arms secretly. Tanks were " tractors. "
The British used instead a 17 pounder gun on a Sherman tank with a recoil action that they devised Using high powered armour piercing shells in one battle on the continent a firefly knocked out five Nazi tanks like ducks in a row when they were moving through a village.
The 17 pounder gun had a longer barrel than the Sherman's original gun. Once the success of the 17 pounder against the German tanks was established, many British tank units began fitting lengths of pipe on the end of many Standard Sherman tank guns, which sometimes made the German tank turn tail and scarper.....
... and off-course the inventors and developers of the proximity fuse!.
My MIL was in AA near Cheshire and Manchester I think
The bombers were struggling with these anti aircraft
Could they be used against a ICBM
igla missiles from england used by englishes on WW2