I'm obsessed with the whole firing procedure. 1 .Loading shell, (Breach closes automatically) 2. Firing, (massive explosion, breach kicks back) 3. Empty shell casing is being ejected automatically when breach is coming back. 4. immediately new shell is reloaded,(Breach closes automatically) etc.
@@FIntyMAcC10 Yes it was the 88 and 105 both where AA guns that was their primary purpose but their anti tank capabilities where discovered during the war
Fighter planes and bombers were armored. The full name is "8.8 cm Flak". Flak stands for Flug-Abwehr-Kanone, which translates to Flight-Defense-Canon, or more common ANTI AIR GUN. Watch your language.
Unlikely. Tough to beat America with two oceans to protect us. If Britain and France hadn't screwed up-OTOH-and guarded the Ardennes gap-tragedy could have been avoided. Similarly, if Stalin had modernized his air force, and not pissed off Finland, the Ukrainians and Baltic states (in the latter case by conquering them) and driven Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania into Hitler's arms, he may not have gotten as far as he did.
@@steveoranges1960 No! There would have been no need for a ban. It would have been enough to enslave the Anglo-Saxons ... (As the Roman Empire did with the subjugated peoples ... At that time, the slave could not speak his mother tongue with his master either ...) But fortunately the Anglo-Saxons did not have to go through this - nor did the world ...
Or also speaking Japanese. All that was required was for Japan to lay off from Hawaii and invade siberia from the east in coordination with Germany invading from the west. Russia would have fallen quickly. Germany then wou l d take control of Russia's heavy industry and commence big time pproduction of weapons a nd equipment. Big numbers of German troops then would be freed to be launched across the channel. With Britain defeated then Australia and New Zealand and India would so o n to be in the bag . After consolidating for a spell and the finished development of their nuclear bomb and the increased supplies of weapons and vehicles and jet aircraft and equipment thanks to the Russian/German heavy industry acquisition then USA and Canada could be invaded by combined German/Japanese troops with aid of their nuclear bombs and kamakazi guided rockets to deliver the nuclear bombs . USA and Canada would be surrendering in less than one week .Next the whole world.
My dad saw combat in WWII on the German-Belgian border during the Ardennes Offensive. He was part of a mechanized cavalry group. He would say that soldiers while walking often times adopted the "88 crouch" in which they were leaning forward. They wanted to be that slight bit closer to the ground when fire came from an unseen 88.
T Davies, thank you for your imput regarding your Dad, my Dad was also Involved in North West Europe, but it seems we have some Fools that want to poke fun of those times, these are idiots that think it's fun to see your mates killed in action, hope you don't have an idiot comment on your story.
I’m sure that any sensible person walking on the battlefield crouched as much as possible. Not just 88s - snipers, MG-42 bursts. By the time you heard it, it was too late.
Does anyone know if the sound is actually an 88mm? I have a CD with the sound of guns from the American Civil War and I assume there are similar sound banks for WW2 if people bothered to go to that much trouble.
The rate of fire they could achieve was pretty scary. Its no wonder when combined with the armour penetration that it was so deadly against massed armour attacks.
I recently found my Fathers "German War Papers"- the document describes him born 1915 as Wachtmeister ( Sergent) with options for candidate K.O.A - Kriegsoffizieranwärter - Officer, Two handwritten pages describe his attendance with FLAK Regiment 22 - starting 1. September 1939 ( Atack on Poland) whatever I could read is followed here: 1.9. 39 Feldzug in Polen / Waldkämpfe südl. Korfentin? 3.9. bis 4.9 Gefecht bei Fanoro ? 5.9. - 8.9. Kämpfe um den Lysa Gora & Gefechte bei Weissbich? & Radom 30.10 bis 9.5. 40 Sicherung der deutschen Westgrenze 10.5.40 - 12.5 40 Durchbruch durch die südlichen Befestigungen und die Ardennen 13 - 14 5.40 Durchbruchschlacht des Marneübergangs 15.5.40 Verfolgungskämpfe durch Südbelgien und die Französichen Grenzbefestigungen bis über die Oise 20.5. 40 Umschliessung der Feinkräfte in Flandern und Schlacht bei...? unlesbar 5.6. Durchbruchschlacht an der Somme und Verfolgungsjagd bis zur Seine 14.6. - 25.6. 40 Verfolgungskämpfe bis zur.....unlesbar...zur Grenze beidseitig der Cote d'or,, 26.6. 1940 - 9.10. 40 Verteidigung des Bodengewinns , Besetzung? Militärischer Anlagen im besetzten Gebiet gegen englische Angriffe - last entry: 10.10. 1940 bis 1.12. 40 Verteidigung Kriegs- und Lebenswichtiger Anlagen im Heimat Kriegsgebiet gegen Luftangriffe - die nachfolgenden Seiten sind leer - he survived the war and in fact turned into a civillian working as ingenieer for a military production.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cNyUxl0MXWQ.html ; War reenactment of the DIA-D in Santander beach plus videos of Parachute Warfare Day and Landing on the beach
The beauty of this gun is that it is able to shoot flat accurately as well as vertical. Usually firing level will make the projectile sail from ground effect. Very versatile and way ahead of its time.
@@goose_memes Yes but the Königstigers chassi was made by Henschel and the turret by Krupp. Porsche had nothing to do with that one. Porsches electric drive was to complicated and expensiv and took much space. The Ferdinand (Elephant) had Porsches complicated construction and was no succes.
@@randomguy2106 ...Stop it...Do you remember the Bolshevik's they are the cause of world war 2 between the german's and the Soviet's in which it should never happen!!!😤
Except that the MG-34 was a more refined weapon than the MG-42: more solidly built and accurate. But the 42 was cheaper and simpler to assemble and also had a higher firing rate (not that it mattered much, since sustained fire was impractical for more than a few seconds per burst).
@@sirrathersplendid4825 it was on design a higher fire rate, it is Made so it is impossible to run through, a very smart design if you consider all the target rich environment the germans were in.
@@keeshans5768 - Better for shooting at aircraft because of the firing rate. That much I can agree with. However, both the MG-34 and -42 were pretty inaccurate unless on a tripod mount.
The American technicians from the Aberdeen Proving Grounds researched the high velocity weapons of Germany after the war. They came to the conclusion that U.S. arms manufacturers should have taken a bigger interest in “high velocity “.
Thord I was in Marine artillery for 3 years. We never wore ear protection unless one of the officers were around. You just can’t hear the commands with ear plugs in. And when you can’t hear the commands then bad things happen. K 3/10
PengstirbKuchen Yes, they’re very loud. The higher the powder charge the louder it is. We always just put our fingers in our ears but sometimes when a multiple round Fire Mission came down we were moving so fast loading that you couldn’t always do it. They had small howitzers compared to ours. We had M198, 155mm Howitzers.
My uncle who was missing in action in holland for 2 weeks in a field hospital with amnesia and later had one of his legs shot off at the knee said " those 88s were a nasty gun".
THE SOUND IS FAKE. EVERYTHING WAS FILMED BY THE NAZI PROPAGANDA, THIS IS NOT WHAT THE GERMAN ARMY REALLY LOOKED LIKE. This old crappy video is making views only because RU-vid deleted all other war archive videos like it. They're a lot of guns that are not the flak 88 and the repetitive sound is terrible, I know it.
I always come back to this video, it's great on mute 🤷🏻♀️ so don't be too harsh on yourself, the footage itself is great. It's mostly Flaks so it's all good
@@StarWarsExpert_ Any number of factors, really. RU-vid has been on a crusade against a plethora of things even vaguely "non-kosher", shall we say. Guns, German military songs/history/equipment, etc. Hell, they probably even hate this in particular due to the number "88".
Flak 18 (the original 88mm) was used on ground targets as far back as the Spanish Civil War, years before WWII. The Wehrmacht knew exactly what it could do against tanks. They didn’t roll into combat with armour piercing shells by accident.
please do not judge us all and please consider: the young men back then only had two options - you fight or you will be shot immediately. May our Grandfathers rest in peace. Regards from Germany.
Stopp spreading lies you simp. Many were brave and volunteered to become soldiers and were proud of it. To all german soldiers: RIP and thank you for your service. You gave it all with honor and loyalty till the bitter end. Respect.
T-34 were not disliked this video. They just came to Germany and made huge holes wherever they could and could not. Including in these "terrrrrrible" guns. Т-34 не ставили дизлайки. Они просто приехали в германию и проделали огромные дыры везде, где было можно и нельзя. В том числе, и в этих "ужжжжасных" пушках.
A truly devastating weapon. My grandfather was on the receiving end of those 88's in Bastone during the battle of the Bulge. 3rd army, 4th armored division . I remember him telling me stories about that. When I asked him what was the worst part of that battle I remember him saying "The bitter cold & those G-D damn 88's!
Soviets: Develops the Flying Antonov Tank Yuri: You see Ivan, when you create a flying tank Germans will get confused if they'll use anti tank gun or aa gun Hans: *(laughter) , you dumb scheiße*
impressive short reloading time of the 88mm cannon. It is a precision weapon with a longest effective range (at that time) of 14860 meters. No allied tanks can withhold a 88mm round.
Late war IS2 could bounce a shell frontally at longer ranges 1000m+. It's why the Germans eventually upgraded the 88 to the KwK43. Standard 88 tore through everything the UK and the US had.
The 88mm found its neish as an anti tank gun on the Eastern Front. It was the only weapon that could stop the Soviet T34 in its tracks. T34 had sloping armour which the Wermacht found to be a major combat issue. While the T34 armour was actually 30mm, but when sloped at 30degrees it became 100mm thick with added slope proving impervious to other German anti tank artillery.
Germans did later improvised the existing Panzer iv model by equipping it with a 75 mm long high velocity barrel that enabled it to be on equal terms with t34. Pak 40 is also another cheap but highly effective tank killer that was mass produced on the eastern front.
@@angelamagnus6615 Yes, that's right they did. The bigger let down for the Soviet Armoured Units was the lack of suitable radio equipment to allow them to organise better mass armoured movements. The Wehrmact were the premium tank warfare force by the time they invaded Russia.
@@neerajchopra6809, I am not too sure if you read the beginning of my sentence .. did you..? I said right from the beginning - ideologies aside - I’m playing that I do not agree with the ideology; it’s their performance that does attract the attention beside; they were millions of miles and miles ahead of their adversaries in don’t you agree heeraj..their bad luck is that they were lead by a lunatic who Legende only to himself...! Ya; what do you think..?
I knew an allied WW2 veteran who broke down and cried when I asked him about the war and all he said was "those damn 88's". I was just a kid and had no idea what he was talking about. Now I know.
The best soldiers, strange way of looking at it, Stalingrad, germans were not allowed to surrender, "fight to the end" how many germans died for their stupidity. The more the germans tried to fight the more german towns and cities were bombed by the allies. For every german soldier killed 5 civilians died from the bombing. That is a stupid soldier who keeps fighting and is really killing his family, women , kids. And what was it all for, what were the 6 million in concentration camps killed for. The dumbest, brainless military the world has ever seen, The germans lost, they lost. If that was the best army what a pack losers. And after the war, forget it, germany was under occupation for many many years.
@@gregcameron6047 I was reading recently that the Russian front at its peak, kept around 70% of the German Army engaged. If that were not the case the invasion of Europe by the allies would have developed into a war of attrition with a very different outcome. This combined with the costly disaster of the Dieppe Raid of 1942 into Northern France by the British and Canadian Forces fresh in peoples minds it could/would have tipped the scales to the invasion/liberation not proceeding.
@@tegunn - Man, the Wehrmacht NEVER attacked the Maginot Line in 1940...! In order to avoid it and flank it they invaded Holland and Belgium and entered France from there ! Better check your books !
@@orlandonavarro5674 Perhaps your You Tube education failed you. Check out Army Group C (Wilhelm Ritter Von Leeb)...Wikipedia will help: "Army Group C was formed from Army Group 2 in Frankfurt on 26 August 1939. It initially commanded all troops on Germany's western front but after the Polish campaign it was reduced to commanding the southern half of the western front, {{ overseeing the frontal breakthrough through the Maginot Line during June 1940 }}. At the end of the battle of France it moved back to Germany then - under the cover name "Section Staff East Prussia" - moved to East Prussia on 20 April 1941. On 21 June 1941 it was renamed Army Group North." Group C before attacking the Maginot Line was a decoy force to keep French forces committed to a suspected attack...
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cNyUxl0MXWQ.html ; War reenactment of the DIA-D in Santander beach plus videos of Parachute Warfare Day and Landing on the beach
Los germanos siempre han sido un pueblo guerrero...por eso no han vacilado en enfrentar ellos solos al mundo entero en 2 guerras mundiales, y aún así estuvieron a punto de ganarlas ! Quien los tenga de aliados en una guerra ya tiene una enorme ventaja de arranque !
Ivan,thank,you for the reply,yes I was commenting on the German 88mm flak gun,which was used in many guises during WW2.The reason was my Dad was in the Royal Artillery,and landed in Normandy at Arromanches,on Gold Beach,in June 1944,he was in action straight away with a 9.2 inch heavy field piece,and during the campaign was shelled by German Artillery several times,usually by this 88mm weapon,on one occasion,the gun next to my Dads gun was hit,all the gunners were killed some shrapnel flew across to the gun my Dad was on,and killed 2 of the gunners,with another 3 wounded,my Dad said he was very lucky that day,he was adamant that the 88mm was the best artillery gun of the war,extremely accurate, quick firing and mobile! He was present at the huge barrage that opened up at 22.00 and finished at 05.00,to cover the Rhine Crossings.He said there were a thousand guns firing continuously during that period! The 88mm had a distinctive sound,very easily recognized by the Royal Artillery gunners,as it was a very high velocity weapon.Hope this has been useful to you Ivan? Good Luck.
The 88 had British tankers scared in the western desert that they would even move forwards until the infantryman had silenced them. The Brits military had 3.7 inch anti aircraft guns too but never allowed them to be used like the Jerry 88mm.
@@pengstirbkuchen5987 also all nacist leaders behavior came from fear of hitler. so they only accept his mind shit and thats they loose war or they loose everything...goring dont wat big war...
The English word, "flak", comes from the German abbreviation for "anti-aircraft gun" ("Flak" from "Fliegerabwehrkanone", literally "aircraft defense gun" ). In English of course it didn't really come to mean the guns themselves, but the results of the guns in the air, as allied planes experienced their exploding shells. Today in English "flak" can also mean "serious criticism", as in "to receive flak" from someone for some reason.
Flight interception canon is propably the straight translation abwehr means preventive measure and in these instances against tanks and airplanes (PAK-Panzerabwehrkanone)
The notorious 88 anti aircraft artillery or AAA was highly effective against Allied planes. It was more deadly than the American 90 mm artillery. The 88 can be mounted on a tank or used as an anti tank gun or against buildings.
Hubert Kaiser, thanks for the reply, danka, my Father was under fire from this gun, and he said it was the best gun ever! Very accurate and quick firing!
It was one of the first times people realized an anti-air weapon could be used on land-based targets. Even today many anti-air weapons are used on the battlefield as fearsome anti-infantry weapons. People don't really talk much about it.
The legend does'nt lie.... my Dad was Flakhelfer @ "08", was told me near Passendorfer Wiesen between Halle/Leuna. He was a joung boy from high scool.... like how men of his friends in the war.
They should have focused on building more of these and good tanks instead of all kind of silly super weapons but it's okay Germany nowadays is an economic superpower
This is not some wunderwaffe super weapon, the German Army had already being using the 88mm gun since WW1, later they modified it to target tanks, not just aircraft.
I as a German feel obligated to tell you that we kinda fuck other Nationß over and also to a certain amount cripple their Economy with our practices (Greece and the Euro for example)
@@redred575 Und MG-42, MG-34, es ist einfach toll! Ich weiß nicht, wie Google es übersetzen wird, aber eines weiß ich. Die Deutschen haben etwas getan, was noch niemand getan hat ........
@@АндрейМолчанов-н7о ich hoffe ich habe es richtig verstanden, danke für die Anerkennung. Die Wehrmacht war die beste Armee die die Erde je gesehen hat. Nie hatte ein Volk so viele Feinde und hat so lange Standgehalten.
No only the Tiger 2 or he “king tiger” had the 88MM flak gun in it. The Tiger 1 while yes having a 88MM bore was a different gun firing a smaller shell.
