Bat Bombs - MORE Terrifying Than Atomic Bombs?! by The Fat Electrician - Reaction 

I would like to note, this isn't the first time this has happened and the woman who did it became a saint.

The brits are pretty nuts themselves because during the cold war they made nuclear land mines that they would bury at the german border to detonate them if the Soviet invaded but they couldn't find a way to keep the electronics from freezing so they were gonna put chicken inside the land mine so there body heat would keep the electronics worm enough not to freeze

8:01 EXACTLY, the "bomb" worked perfectly and so did the explosives. Sure the whole BASE has been lit on fire but as a test it all worked perfectly.

If you think this was completely insane, the first guidance system for missiles was a pigeon that was trained to peck on a screen to home the projectile in on a ship. Yes this happened.

Look up his bazooka tank video it sounds like it came straight out of 40k.

The best part about this is that he didn't even mention that this tactic was allegedly used successfully before by St. Olga of Kiev. When besieging the Drevlian capital Olga demanded a tribute of one pigeon or two sparrows from each house to lift the siege, when this was provided she had her men tie brands of sulfur to their feet light them and release them all at once. The birds returning to their nests in the eves of all the thatched roofs of the city causing so many fires that the city was effectively destroyed.

Please watch more fat electrician, he's incredible

Congratulations, you've now met the Fat Electrician! May I suggest his videos on Sergeant Reckless, Aimo Koivunen, and Cassius Clay? If you want an unofficial two parter he did, go for the ice cream ships of WWII and America's cheese bunkers. Everything he does is an absolute riot.

Your first time seeing the Fat Electrician?... Welcome to a wonderful world of imagination! and war crimes, lots of war crimes...

This is an example of a weapon so fucking ridiculous that no matter how effective it is, actually putting it in standard service would cause too many questions to be asked lol

If I remember correctly Fat Electrician was medic in the national guard

Yo. Personal recommendation, look up his video on "The submarine that sank a train". It was the first FE video that I watched, and it's what sold me on his channel. (also taught me a hilarious meme about electricians due to a joke he made in the video, and an explanation he put in the comment section afterwards) There is a running gag he uses however, about "Quakebang grenades", and if you want to get the joke there, find his video on "11 Bravos", and possibly the follow-up where he explains it a little further about how a Quackbang grenade is a decidedly effective weapon, despite evidence to the contrary. Also, I knew you were gonna be a fan of his simply from the fact that you almost share a catch-phrase.🤣 "Remember kids, it's never a war-crime the first time."

I mean... it wasn't even that novel of the idea. Saint Olga of Kiev did basically same thing with birds in X century

The bat bonb was never a serious idea...the only reason it even got tested is because the guy who thought of it was an acquaintance of Elanor Roosevelt...the First Lady. And the whole idea was basically dropped by the Army about 2 years BEFORE the end of the war.

There's my history lesson I didnt know I needed.

Hey old man hope you check out his Sergent Reckless the American horse from ww2

I love your reaction of the fat electrician I hope you watch more of them

0:44 The joke you being Ferrus Manus only gets stronger with time I see

You should watch his video about the M-50 Ontos next. “The Thing”.

I will always recommend his "temper temper" incident and"New Jersey sinks and Island"

now do the fat electrician pigeon bomb video

It's never a War Crime the First Time

We need to watch out for dentists. A dentist invented the Gatling gun and Doc Holiday was a dentist.

A nuke could take out a city. The bat homb would have likely taken out a prefecture

The difference between genius and insanity is measured only by success.

The catchphrase "good times rhymes with war crimes." Is something that connects with me on a special level, especially as a canadian.

The Fat Electrician does some great videos and you should watch more. He goes over a lot of different weapons (he has a good one on the flying ginsu knife missile) and different units in the US military.

Had to chime in. My Uncle was an Ironworker with NJ Steel for decades... Much respect! Killer video that cut my PTSD to shreds. Thx again for what you do👍👍👍

Please do his video on the A1 Skyraider it's such a good one and a good example of doing something in hardcore mode.

Official motto of the navy: "If it makes sense, it's wrong."

Wait till he learns about the guided pigeon bombs.

I always thought the motto of the Navy if it's broke, F it duct it all. It's only temporary til you get to shore. At least that was a normal saying my dad would say when I was growing up. Lol the last line

You neeeeeeed to binge react to him. He’s great.

Army here, Gulf War…I ain’t trying to tickle them to death.

Also for those who don’t the guy who invented the Gatling gun…was also a doctor…whic later became the basis for the M134 minigun and variants. And every other electrically or hydraulically driven machine gun/cannon. Let alone all the PHD’s obviously involved with the atomic bombs, then h bombs, so yeah, doctors of one kind or another have invented, or helped to invent some of the deadliest weapons ever made.

We also made a guided bomb using a pigeon.

My favorite videos of this guy are probably the most gangster Marine ever and the gangster politician ever

I highly recommend a lot of this guys stuff. The Cassius Clay video is great.

Theres also the soviets that trained dogs to jump under tanks to blow them up(they strapped bombs to the dogs) the only issue is the soviet tanks were diesel and the german ones used gasoline so the dogs always jumped under and friendly fired soviet tanks

There is also anti tank dog mines (russia) Chicken heated nuclear land mines (us/uk) Pigeon guided cruise missle (us also another fat electrition vid) And many more animal weapons

Took a page right out of Olga of Kiev's playbook. Context: Olga of Kiev did more or less this with birds and I want to say sulfur pieces but I don't recall what the payload was. She's worth watching some videos about. Burned a city with birds, buried an enemy's envoys alive, and to top it all off she's a Catholic Saint.

This has been one of my favorite stories since I first read about it. I just love how unbelievable it sounds, while being one of the scariest weapons ever created.

Absolutely needs to do the one on the cheese bunkers

Behold the power of "if it looks stupid but it works, then it is not stupid" the mantra of grunts and craftsmen everywhere.

When the truth is stranger than fiction!!

When I was in the Army we called the Marines, Navy gate guards.

Seeing as how Geneva wasn't until 1949, I think this would be safely classified as "not a war crime."

Oh man, you've found the Fat Electrician, you're in for a treat. I stayed up until 4am the day I found his channel. If my high school history teacher had been more like him (and to be fair, my teacher was a Marine), I might have gone into military history as my major.

Fun fact, Queen Catherine of Russia did the exact same thing but with pigeons

The fat electrician is great, he does a lot of naval stuff or has done. Check out his channel and check the videos he's done.

Both world wars had *A LOT* of crazy ideas that failed in testing or were never tested in the first place.

Oh you werent aware of this? It was my understanding thst everybody knew The Bird is The Word. Seriously, they tried putting pigeons inside bombs to guide them.

At the same time the usa was making the world's worst stink bomb to also use on Japan

Ngl I would’ve like to be born in the alternate reality where we did use project x ray over the nukes

Just wait till you realize we also weaponized cat guided anti ship bombs and the Pidgin guided anti ship bombs that honestly would have worked

As The Fat Electrician says "I's never a war crime the first time!"

If you think that the Marines' Project X-Ray is bonkers you might want to look at the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Operation Aunt Jemima.

A glorious crossover indeed.

The Tyranids should have an equivalent force. Jus saying

I thought that you would have watched his cheese bunker video before this one. You should watch more of his videos

Maybe they called it project x-ray cause they were gonna make all the japanese buildings see through

5:18 To be fair to him, bats are extremely plentiful. They are the furthest thing from extinction. A few thousand being used for these bombs wouldn't dent the population at all.

We humans are experts at finding a way to kill one another, from the dawn of humanity to present day. 100% experts at it. 😂 im not even surprised the first time i heard of this project.

13:35 I guess you could say we are bat-shit crazy, huh? 😂

Quick someone get this man a fat electrician playlist

Just wait till Oldman hears FE's various catchphrases

Old Man watching Fat Electrician?! Is it already Christmas?!

You know you're on to something when step 1 of the process is figuring out how to weaponize your raging hate-boner for small flying mammals.

One of the things I hate most about Cold War era posturing/propaganda is the Japanese surrendered because of the power of the bomb they didn’t japan didn’t think the us had anymore bombs they surrendered because of the continued us fire bombing ordered by Curtis Lemay specifically after the emperor saw the destruction of the Tokyo fire bombing they also gave him a medal for the firebombing and it’s role in ending the war

Oh my god, Fat Electrician...please do yourself the favour of watching all his videos 😂

ok BUT hear me out. what if u make robo bats with a bat mimicking AI to eliminate the moral delima? eh? drop bomb, bomb opens, thousands of tiny drones swarm all over the place gettin in all the nooks n crannies then explode

Love you reactions, and I can't wait till you get to Sgt Reckless.

Trust me, the Bat Bomb thing is NOT the craziest idea anyone ever had in ww2. A group in British intelligence did a complete psychological profile of Adolf Hitler, and concluded that it would be possible to drive him completely irretrievably insane. How? By overdosing him on pornography, of course. The group gathered a huge quantity of German smut, and the plan was that a bomber would drop this by parachute over Hitler's estate at Berchtesgaden. Yes, I am quite serious. This was an actual thing. But then, when they told a senior military officer about this, he basically said, "This is the stupidest idea I ever heard of," and basically killed the entire project.

I've watched all of TFEs video his old stuff is great especially his military job/weapon videos. His newer longer videos are even better.

14:25 though Fat Electrician didn’t say it in this video, and you keep saying stuff about it being a warcrime, I’ll just respond with a quote from the Fat Electrician himself……..”It’s never a Warcrime the First time” 😉

to be fair it isnt that weird the british tried something similar with homing pigeons

...I'm calling the SCP Foundation's Ethics Committee.

wait till you watch the one about the chicken powered nuclear landmines

His saying is it isnta war crime the first time

Did someone say…BATS???

What is it with dentists and weapons?

So for the sake of your sanity, should we not tell you about America's pigeon guided munitions.

I think the firebomb was about 80k dead, so 12x that

Dresden is not, for the same reason neither the bat bomb nor nukes would have been as destructive in Germany... buildings made of stone, not wood.

The shit we Americans get into when we end up with a case of the fuck around's because we want to find out.

God, I love being an American 😂

This will probably make someone mad but it needs to be said Dresden isn’t nearly as bad as it’s made out to be with 25,000 Compare it with other conventional bombings like London, Berlin, and Hamburg all ranging between 40,000 to 50,000 yes Dresden suffered but no more than anyone else

look up pidgin bombs too

Please do more Fat Electrician!

Old man should look at more of his videos he's amazing !

the burth of DARPA

You forgot old man react Life is stranger than fiction

Americans don't fuck around, much less marines 😂

good times with war crimes the first time.

Old man React just you wait old fat electrician He's gonna tell you about The USS Texas

Ok but why though…..

Please do more

your tactics confuse and frighten me sir.

This was not one of his ones

Kamikaze pigeons