The Bomb That Ended a War 

Cave Johnson here!

"Bullet used to go through me. Now, I AM THE BULLET" -Barrel

When you're out of ammo, you become the ammo

I have yet to meet one that can outsmart boolet

@@laksamanasuhendra5868 that has to be one of the coolest quotes I’ve ever heard

Sounds about right

Fun fact: Armoror = Navy Weapons = Air Force

Kinda sus innit bruv

i thought Deep Throat was the guy who exposed the watergate scandal

I swear the engineers have been watching too much porn

Cap 🧢

They really just winging it. They speedrun making and deploying new bomb.

it explodes when it reaches the bunker too, so you catch a glimpse of the pole and then you're in heaven

Question is: Won't it just go through the entire bunker and 15 feet into the lowest floor before exploding!? xD I mean considering the speed that thing is traveling, you have a 0.001 second window where the shell is traveling "through" the bunker before burying itself yet again.

@@blur3253 you mean with your 72 virgins or whatever they believe is heaven?

@@Erafune if it happens to land on the bottom floor. I thought their illusion of security falling apart in such a fashion was dark but comical. Specifically if it landed on their floor and they happened to be on the bottom. You are right though. These missiles are so over engineered they do most likely over shoot a lot of bunkers and just kill with sealed concussion in the bunker. I know the MOAB a few years back landed on the surface and it killed everyone in the tunnels because it sucked out all the air.

@@Erafune Good point, but remember there's a quarter tonne of explosive to figure in, even if this doesn't detonate in the exact optimal spot, all that energy has to go somewhere, as does the kinetic energy

This is just barrel, maked from special steel using long base lathe. With the same approach, they can make catapult which can fired the Moon. No need Appolon, no need Saturn rocket. But this guys frozen in desire. Main problem, that Moon not have such cheap oil in Moon's arounds. Cheap oil is good catalyst for amour-propre.

@@Barmaley80x The Saturn rocket was needed, and there was a large desire to rush as fast as we could to get to the moon. It's called the Cold War.

@@Philly_Willy but now in present time it useless. But someone tell us what mankind is evolving. Mankind not have ambitious plans. So we are moving to the nature, close to the monkeykind.

@@Barmaley80x We are getting better at ambitious plans, but value human safety and life more now. We learn from the past. Plus, there ARE ambitious programs like SpaceX's starship rocket which will send humans to the moon and farther by landing like a person bellyflopping into a pool.

@@Barmaley80x Can you speakadah Engrish?

ya but then you have to argue about the development period and the previous prior detonations of a prototype core.

The point could be made that nuclear energy was studied a lot before hand, these guys machined a howitzer for half a month, and then sent it on its way

Trinity wasn't a drop tho. It was detonated on a tower in the desert.

I'm just a regular dumbass but I thought that 1=1

@@dannydevito5729 1=1, but one apple doesn’t equal one orange

It's not always the case, they just got lucky from their quick and janky creation

Skill and ability to cooperate isn't luck alone

Because it's fun!

**To penetrate thick walls AND to potentially kill another human

Works on saving lives too but they don't make RU-vid about growing antibiotic strains or operations, engineering is covered though so what's ya point !

these weapons are why we dn't bother armoring ships anymore...

It is a huge concrete nail, scaled to stab smash the bunker.

@@kyleheins Really? You have no antiship missiles that come even close to power of the WW2 AP grenades. They have neither weight nor speed. Besides, ships were not armored with stupid reinforced concrete, they were protected with armored layout specifically designed to defeat powerful AP projectiles. You do not armor ships because you simply do not have money to do so.

@@mungo7136 Go study armor and armor penetration properly. I'll wait.

@@kyleheins Well, as you have clearly no clue, educate yourself in the first place

You think those desert rats had RU-vid? 😂

After the First World War, the UK, France and the US decided to take the territory of Kwait from Iraq. With this ABUSE, Iraq was left without access to the sea. And, what were the UK, US and France doing in the Middle East? They were stealing the Oil. Yup... Modern Pirates!

*hell that literally how my dad does his shit*

Life of an Engineer at it's finest

You have to also give credit to the machinist involved. Often times the machinist will work side by side with the engineers as a sort of checks and balances with empasis on checks. Lol. Source: I come from a family of machinist and engineers that worked in the aerospace industry.

What's with the mountain dew part?

@@PC-xj4wi Caffeine, caffeine, and more caffeine, to stay alert while designing the bomb.

The P-51 went from beginning on the drawing board to a flying prototype in 3 months. And this was in 1940!!! Ya, it can be done.

@monty crawford one thing the P51 had was an economy and industry gearing up for a war, you noticed throughout World War II a lot of vehicles and Technologies were developed fairly rapidly compared to what would have happened without the war.

@@clonescope2433 Plus they didn't have all the regulations we have to put up with today.

Also shows one of my favorite principles: simple solutions are often better. Using an "off the shelf" gun barrel was a brilliant idea.

Urgency to kill. They will have to explain themselves before God... Before being thrown into the pit.

Imagine being there (I was) when this happened. We're gonna drop a what? Never heard of that.

4 weeks is nothing for the military industrial complex when given the comparatively unlimited funding and access that the first open armed conflict since Korea brings with it.

we are so lost now. i wonder if we could improvise like this anymore

And that was well before everyone had access to computers to simplify everyone's work, amazing how they must have "known their sh*t" back then.

The coalition actually had clear and achievable objectives in that war for once, although they should have either supported the uprisings against Saddam at the end of the war or done their best to stop them. Nobody has clear political goals in war anymore, which is like page 1 clausewitzian how to win at war stuff. Who the hell knows what russia's war objectives are right now for example? They certainly don't seem to know themselves.

Wat about Ukraine....?

@@Ukraineaissance2014 large chunk of Ukrainian economy is generated by the fertile and resource rich eastern ukraine. Denazifying or whatever bullshit they said is just propaganda to justify their action and to paint them as the 'hero' to russian citizen. Everyone should know that in the end, it's always the same imperialistic objective to either gain more resource or to preserve dominance.

@@najunisa9375 Ukraine looks like a badly organized shit fest. Russians were and are underperforming against what once were their own weapons (Now with support from the west it no longer stands true).

maybe thats a new video idea

"Grand slam" was an even bigger version. It reached supersonic speeds purely by gravity and clean aerodynamic shape.

@@seththomas3418 well they realize how thick that concrete is

@@seththomas3418 It did sufficient damage that the pens were abandoned.

Apart from Tallboy and Grand slam, another one did also penetrate reasonably well. The Fritz X was designed to penetrate well-armoured decks, in case of the Littorio the first hit went through the ships stern, the second hit managed to detonate a magazine. After a resdesign it fell a little slower so the risk of detonation benath the target was reduced, but the operational success was limited, as the bomber had to fly straight and level for the guidance operator to radio-direct the bomb to the target. Technically it was just like the GBU-28, a guided penetrator bomb.

War is a great motivator

American ingenuity at its best. 👍👍

@@spacejaime Education system? Nah, no no no Health care system? Lmao wut? Military system? yes yes yes

@@vond5829 - I hear you loud and clear vond!!! I totally agree with you. Immoraly expensive higher education (colleges), and the most expensive health system on the planet.

@@jaimeballester840 we germans have the most expensive health system. but are like...i think rank 40 something? it's terrible. lost my career becasue all i needed was a simple prescription for a learning problem (ads related) 1 year 3 months not being able to get an appointment at an psychiatrist. swiss system is much better. also expensive, but it works.

Paul Brickhill in his book makes mention that Barnes - Wallis was close to tears when he was told how many aircrew has been lost on Operation Chastise so that really does not surprise me, but the Americans love to glorify their technical achievements as it covers for their military ineptitiude in other areas.

War is hell. Do avoid them at all costs. But necessity is the mother of invention, and humans can invent one mother of a thing if the situation necessitates. The key is to not be the thing necessity is aimed at.

Only Tallboy bombs 10,000lb were used against the Tirpitz. It was enough.

It's not war that's glorified here, it's engeniering

@@darreng745 That really is the issue with the US Military... They're not well trained, nor are they really well equipped. But they have a massive Military Industrial complex behind them, that will (if needed) create this kind of stuff to fuck ur day up.

When the deceleration stops .

Doesn’t necessarily work as the deceleration could get to 0 after penetrating below the bunker, and the explosion doesn’t do the intended damage. But knowing the max depth of the missile after hitting the underground bunker and the min depth of penetration underground, it’s feasible to increase the explosive power so that it deals the intended damage anywhere within the range. Also, maybe the bomb doesn’t aways work as intended either and multiple drops were needed.

Literally just math. Time delay based on X000psi concrete and the expected impact velocity and penetration/deceleration. There are more modern solutions now though such as the FMU-167 Void Sensing Fuze.

The "hiding" in the bunker part is technically true, but it's either losing your entire military's leadership from decapitation strikes or surrender to prevent your military from going in disarray. There's a point to be made about the top sending others to die and that kind of shit, but at the same time, you literally cannot have every single general in the frontline

Which is why I am surprised that there have been no violent attacks in Russia targeted to people in governmental positions in light of the Ukrainian war

Pooting probably hiding 1km underground under his desk.

@@leonox7313 Well Ukrain doesn't have the military capability to launch an attack on Putin and if there is one thing the russian army absolutely sucks at it's reconnaisance. They probably have absolutely no idea where Selenski or his generals are. Also Ukrain's anti air units are too good to risk sending one of the few higher gen jets for such an air strike. It was the same for NATO in jugoslavia. They couldn't fly below 8 kilometers.

Oh wow thanks for stating the obvious lmfao

Dropping it not launching lol.

Laser guiding it

Years later, they will drop an artillery barrel which would fire a round at intended target. Or paradrop a remote controlled machinegun to rain straight down while maintaining a small figure, hard to detect thousands of meters above.

@@panther7584 Like that one gun in "Enter the Gungeon" that shoots a bullet that explodes into guns that shoot with bullets?

@@Maddinhpws That is the most silly thing I have ever heard of and I want it. In Borderlands 3, you shoot with a gun, throw it at a ground then it activate its legs and walks around shooting. Fucking adorable little gun.

Ok, I have a bomb that can penetrate quite a bit while being able to release the payload....oh wait wrong subject?....

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Is this joke still considered funny?

@@Tom_Quixote apparently, judging by the ratio

*YES*

Well its just efficient at the task necessary in the case of developing this bomb it was the most efficient way to destroy a bunker, in case of developing the F35 it was the most efficient way to sell forgein policy and domestic corruption

Depends entirely on how much funds need to be burnt through, since military projects are not allowed to come in under budget.

When I was in basic I was like “damn the army is like the most organized disorganized thing ever”

Sounds like it’s not the military’s problem but whether the civilian leadership has enough clarity in their aims and prioritization.

It's huge "hurry up and wait".

What was the challenging aspect of the class?

What were some cool details if you dont mind me asking

they also make the M777 barrels at the Watervliet Aresenal, which is the oldest still-operating arsenal in the US. i grew up right near by in Menands, went to school through grade 12 right nearby, and passed it a couple of times every week going to fencing class.

Was it Dr. Thorton?

@@AlexanderSuraphel trying to spell course obviously!

The f-111's are now a lost treasure.

Fun fun fun! Let's kill some people. Sheesh. Gimme a break.

That’s so cool!

fUn FaCt: tritonal is often in liquid form due to heat when the bombs sit outside in sun. when you move them, you can hear the explosive slosh around.

Why don’t we use them anymoren

Too right they wouldn't have done this without knowing exactly what it was going to be able to do

@@scotthubbard8779I love this stuff. Imagine the destructive weapons we have today in 2023? Love it!!

@@TravisMcGee151There is nothing to love about weapons that kill people. Sure it may look cool and have a big bang but ultimately it's something made to cause harm.

​@@Darksouls98the point is to cause harm, otherwise harm more harm would be called

They had to test it

Bunker busters were not a new concept. Just not something that was needed since the Korean war.

@@XMysticHerox hes saying that even though there wasnt a present need beforehand for a new bunker buster the engineers never stopped designing just incase a better bunker buster was needed

Gustav gun I think it was called.

Yep, every shot destroyed the barrel. Highly ineffective due to inability to keep up continuous fire + lack of accuracy...

@@metermatchit was Dora, 4 track rail gun

There's that, the German railway gun. And there's also the giant mortar they built (technically an SPG) which used a 2,170 kg shell called the Karl-Gerat.

@@hphp31416 Dora was the name of one specific gun produced. The Gustav gun is the name of the design itself.

It's Not What You Think!

@@NotWhatYouThink “yeah, it’s big brain time”

And killed 480 civilians

@@jbbeiser983 it was al amirriyah shelter attack, it didnt use 5000lb bunker busters but 2 2000lb paveways from f117 nighthawks.

@@jbbeiser983 no you got it wrong,480 units of biowaste terminated,that's how you spell it

@@artkl494 Correctly spelled is toxic biowaste includes you

@@jabibiszum6764 biowaste unit got mad💀

USA: Ignores chemical weapons used in the Iraqi Iran war. Iraq: Invades Kuwait. US: Dog I smell oil, THAT SH!T IS MINE!

Also add who gave and armed Saddam weapons of mass destruction US : ✋✋✋✋✋✋✋ Edit : why not Russia because they nuke all of Europe and americas

Desert Storm (the Gulf War) is a different from the Iraq War. They are 12 years apart

The less countries have weapons of mass destruction, the less are the chances that they might be used

In all fairness you could say they only had the delivery vehicles to attack close by nations but yeah nuclear weapons was kind of a stupid excuse (chemical weapons are technically WMDs so I guess technically that part was true)

No bomb was ever tested before it was used. Your half as smart as you think you are.

They didn't need to. Criticality tests proved that bringing 2 fissile masses together at sufficient speed would have a nuclear yield.

The had many times tested nuclear reaction before hand. Not that they assembled a bomb thinking that it will work.

@@aaronwestley3239 well both yes and no. For fissile material to become supercritical it is literally "bring enough of it close together and it will go off" i.e. "Demon Core" accident. Making bomb of it was as simple as slapping uranium and highly compressing it with regular explosives. Well details are complicated but idea is simple: make boom for big boom to be possible.

The implosion design used in fat man and all modern nuclear weapons was, however, a very difficult concept for the brains at Manhattan. It had to be tested at Trinity, and led to the development of many physics discoveries and computational methods. Good thing for them that plutonium was easier to extract from a reactor than it was to enrich uranium to weapons grade.

@CAPTAIN SHARKHORSE :) You wanna bet that the US actually built and tested one recently?

😁

As a P.E. I agree

As a French equivalent of P.E., I agree.

@@airgin3000 Professional Engineer, is a license in the US which allows you to certify designs, calculations as required by law. It is mandatory for Nuclear Power Plants.

Engineers build weapons, architects build targets.

@@realulli Isn't Architecture part of Engineering?

What you proud of? US war investment what make US economy backward and got mountain of debt. Your generation whose must pay for the stupidity of your father's generation. You can imagine if US use the money for developing bullet train, high tech infrastructures, nano chips or flying car? how modern US today?

Your dad help kill children. Then you have a bloodline of evil

I live in the same area. And never knew this happend there. Also always admire the artillery you can see from the road

No you didn’t lmao, you know how big and heavy battleship barrels are???? That would be so impractical and the plane would literally only be able to carry one... if it could even take off 😂😂🤡🤡

@@K20_EM1 I mean... Hearing it doesn't mean it is true. You need to chill.

@@Frozander I’ve heard this one too soooo

@@K20_EM1 not to smart are you eh, he’s not talking about the FULL LENGTH of the barrel. Split up into sub sections for multiple bombs..... MOAB is 21,600lbs and a C130 can carry it easily or even a C-5

@@Crentshen those are transport plane and never meant to be used as bomber

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@@NotWhatYouThinkThen fridays are my favorite day

Such a wholesome conversation

Wholesome, especially in the presence of God!

Wow that's interesting I never thought about that. Thanks for sharing

Might also be that the pointed missiles have more surface area to create friction.

And second time around the people at Lockheed and other companies were just as responsible for war crimes as much as the soldiers and leaders were. Amazing 👏

Says the guy who didn't fight there....

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@@ZT-vr4wz can’t find where i asked

Yeah. Bomb other countries away. Liberate as you want. Karma awaits. 👍🏽

OP glows in the dark

They continued making GBU-28 bombs (not from Howitzer barrels), and of course, other bunker buster bombs were developed after.

Aren't the current bunker busters also fitted for thermobarics?

Bro ever hear of desert storm?Thst was just the test range… They make these fucking rain on assholes, they work great on caves as well.

@@DtWolfwood Thermobarics (FAE), like other blast boms, use thin cases to increase the ratio of explosive weight. Penetrators use thick walled cases to improve penetration and increase density to improve kenetic penetration.

I'm pretty sure if Uncle Sam knows where you are he can reach out and touch you whenever he wants.

Come on don't be naive.ex Yugoslavian engineers made this bunkers and high ex military officers sold the position of bunkers as how they were made...lehen ex Yugoslavia collapse. I think it was in newspapers .2 million dollars for info about one bunker!

Fuck yeah. I remember the phone calls. We moved back into Kuwait after the "100-hour War". I was with the 3rd Armored Div. We engaged the Republican Guard units that were in Iraq serving as a theater reserve for the Iraqi troops in Kuwait. Anyway, I can't remember if the calls were free or if I had to use my phone card. Those were some pretty sweet phone calls.

I can't speak for everyone, but the press coverage was universally positive in support of the war. CNN made it's debut talking about how great and justified the war was.

If you're doing engineering most all projects have a budget for the design. Even research projects have a budget. You have to do the work within the allowable budget unless it's a government cost-plus - but those normally have a "not to exceed" figure. I've never worked on a project where anyone did "freestyle" whatever that is, as you always had an engineering budget for each phase of the project. I've also never met an account that had a clue what we did, much less be able to create a design fee estimate.

True. It also gets way easier if you do not need to prevent getting sued.

nice, pretty smart

USA testing its weapons on civilians. No surprises there.

Democracy my friend

And yet I've treated like the bad guy when I say the American military is filled with war criminals.

Source?

@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 In my opinion all politicians are criminals, and always we people have to pay for their actions. History is repeating itself over and over again...

Hi

"Letting the days go by..." "This must be my beautiful bomb"