H1MIN: CAAT AND FOXER ACOUSTIC DECOYS 

Imagine spending months, potentially years, developing one of if not the first guided weapon, and some Canuck goes "yeah but if I bang these sticks together"

These videos are the definition of quality over quantity.

Man, its incredible how relatively simple the mechanisms are for both the torpedo and the decoys. No microprocessors or anything, just probably simple circuit design.

I've read military history for nearly 50 years but you STILL manage to impart something to me in every video you produce that I never knew before. I've known about the foxer and allied variants for decades but strangely NEVER stumbled on an image of one. You provide not only an image, but its a detailed fully working graphic of the device with sound !!! German scientists further refined the T5 "Zaunkonig" acoustic with the T11 "Zaunkonig II" to counter "Foxer" deployment by improving the internal audio baffles surrounding the transducers to further filter out extraneous audio sources, and then programmed the torpedoes to execute a programmed tight circular run when the sound intensity picked up by the transducers reached a certain level. This meant that as the torpedo approached the sound source when the tight circular run pattern was triggered at the preset sound intensity if the sound source was a "foxer" then the torpedo would circle harmlessly around it without detonating due to the foxer's diminutive size, but as it circled it would then pick up the next sound source (more often than not, the escort towing the foxer) and head to that, if that sound source was indeed a ship then the torpedo would still run its preset circle at the trigger point but the length of the ship meant that the torpedo would circle into the hull of the ship (or under its keel in the case of a magnetic detonator), and explode. Concise, eloquent, masterful. The quality of your graphic (and also audio) productions are superior to ANYTHING I've seen on TV, EVER. Yours is the ONLY YT channel that I wait with bated breath for the next episode. Thank you for your continued efforts.

There's so many WW2 innovations I've never heard of, thanks for bringing the light on this one ❤

Those last 20 seconds were some unexpectedly stressing torpedo maneuvers around a stick banging machine.

Amazing. I never would've known these existed without your channel.

Honey, get the fine china Military History in a Minute posted again

It's getting out of hand Now there are two minutes of them

Wake up homies, M1 posted a new video

Just an idea… A video on the turret gunner station sights used by B-29 crews would be really cool to see! How those things worked was incredible, and I bet your animation would be even better!

Informative and straight to the point! Amazing video as always

The animation and sound design are truly excellent.

The King is back!

A simple solution for a complex (and lethal) problem...

Who would win Sophisticated German torpedo Or Loud nosy boy

A concise yet very informative video, well done!

Amazing video as always, leaving this for the algorithm.

Yo I've been learning about WW2 for 20+ years now and this is the first time I've ever heard of these devices used. Bravo on the video!

The quality of these animations is beyond

Yes! My favorite RU-vid channel

Super short but super informative video again. 👍 Thank you for the GREAT content.

Im not sure what it is exactly...but these videos are a work of art on its own

"20 kHz over the sound of the propeller" Did you mean 20 dB? I would think volume would be more important in attracting danger seals than frequency.

That animation at the end is so erie. well done, chap!

The animations starting at 0:38 are just ... *chefskiss*

Nice job, another great video. Keep it up!

Very nice, crazy stuff, decoy symbals, keep up

So cool!

Amazing quality, I really love the sound design, how to you two do the sound and visuals for these videos?

Excellent

nice to see your video again

Very intersting.

The ending is epic. High quality video.

outstanding animation.

Excellent presentation. Thanks.

Wow!! I have never heard about this before! Super interesting and an absolutely SUPERB video!! WOW!!

As always from this channel another fantastic video

I love uboat related videos

Huh…so that’s what these things are when I was assembling battleship models. I thought they were deployable acoustic devices to help detect subs, but now it makes so much sense that large warships like battleships or carriers would have these.

The animation. I love that it's all original

I had no idea these existed nice one

classic cases of out of the box thinking , defeating overthinking

That's a brilliant idea

Yes I love these videos everytine

RIP decoy #85902 Press F to pay respect.

“Comandont this is the ninth torpedo and we failed to sink a single ship what are they using?” Some clicky sticks:

Very impressive animation and texturing work.

*Gets dressed up* Wife:wat the ocassion Me:MH1M just uploaded

Very nice

Well done, thank you.

Sick vid as always

hes back!

Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding

Basically that dummy thicc clapping ass meme is a real life saving thing

this is so cool

That was siiickkkkk

Correct designation for the german acoustic-seeking torpedoes fielded during WW2 are G7es(TIV) "Falke", G7es(TV) "Zaunkönig" and G7es(TXI) "Zaunkönig II". Only the TV torpedo got the british codename "GNAT". Although the content in general is quite correct, the illustrations isn't as much. No german torpedo could make those narrow turns, and the passive hydrophones in the warhead had a quite narrow field of detection (wider for the earlier versions used in the TIV, further improved with the TV and TXI torpedoes - the latter was also way better equipped with filters to discriminate the sound of the allied noisemakers).

Would be cool if you make a video about the Mark 37 gun directors

Nice video bro

I wish World of Warships use this method of guiding acoustic torpedoes

The allies had some acoustic torpedoes too like air dropped ones

Con, Sonar, Noisemaker bearing 153. Con, Sonar, Weapon Countermeasure Homing.

I think that's a good comment section for a discussion I had with some friends: If we had a "total war" today, like WWII, excluding atomic weapons being used, what kind of innovation that would bring us? Would we speed up our way to singularity or something?

Hello again animator

nive vid as always

Quality over quantity

2 minutes of quantity, 1 month of quality

10-hour CAAT loop when?

Can you please do the dambusters and the dambuster?

Leaving a comment here to feed the algorithm

wow the outro tho wow

Ussr: this is too expensive, just tie a rope to Ivan and give him two metal poles!

Who would win? An advanced anti ship weapon that can easily destroy fast destroyers. Two metal sticks banging together.

Damn, didn't know homing torpedoes were a thing back then, no wonder the hitrate was high. Also is that really how quick the torpedo steers or just for dramatic purposes?

It's like warships trying to fish salmons

LOSAT video plz

Imagine getting beaten by a Cranking Pipes for using Acoustic Torpedo

Not just Ordinary METAL BAR

Who would win? Sophisticated German engineered torpedo Or One Clanky BOI

how did the control system of the torpedo work without a cimputer? :D

Can you guys do the mk24 FIDO torpedo

AYOO HYPEE

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First version of basic artificial intelligence guidance system. A.I.

Germans: We have developed a torpedoe tht follows sound! Sure hit every time! Allies: B̶͓̗̎A̴̤̗͋Á̶̼͋ͅÅ̴̭̖̅Ṟ̴̾Ŕ̴̪͜S̴̹̍̓

Holy shit no way.

when do i get to play the MHiaM video game ? where everything you've modeled is also playable? ty just let me know when its ready

It kind of looks like a razor blade.

First generation noisemakers

Wiii new video

Sounds seekers

You take too long to post a video, I really like your videos, but you gotta make them more frequent

Ww2 trolling be like

water 😀

ROLF

The solution for this is so very WW2-era British, right up there with the light-cannon tank, the oil drum on rocket wheels and the minesweeper that used a big wire to detonate those funky German mines

These videos are the definition of quality over quantity.