War Factories: Bouncing Bomb, Colt & Kalashnikov, Giant Factories | FD Engineering 

Did you write that with a crayon ?

Also remember, that Army was like "yeah, nice.... can we make it stronger buullet?" ?

Great comment about McNamara and his whiz kids!

@@piotrd.4850, Its original configuration was 7.62 x 51. there was a change to 5.56 x 45 as thinking embraced the idea that casualties would remove more of the enemy from the field. Dead is dead, but wounded require assistance. The initial first appearance in the field was satisfactory with SOG units, who named it a "meat axe". After about 200 yds. the round would begin to keyhole or rotate end over end, due to a loss of gyro-stability, the rearmost weight of the boat-tail bullet begins to overtake the front. Producing varied results such as impacts in the thigh exiting a shoulder. 5.56 gave more firepower than 7.62 in a standard load-out by weight.

Current self destruction is the fault of DJT 100%. Wake the fk up.

Reminds me of Alaska Airlines who wanted a more profitable door plug where the Boeing disign was orininally for an emergency exit. I prefer the emergency exit.

if they had self-sealing fuel tanks they would have been better!

It was at the acme of its development with little room for further improvement

Yes Mitsubishi engines are superb I own an old car that have a Mitsubishi SATURN 4G32 chain type w/side drop Webber's still roars like a monster!!

​@@dindodayao6238i drove a 91 mirage i got as a hand me down from my parents minimal maintainence as my dad wasn't really a car guy and money was tight growing up......300k miles and no major repairs besides a starter.......and a new 5 speed manual that came off a 2nd hand parts dealer. Would probablly still start after sitting dor 10 years if i went and pit a new battery in her.

Yeah,the full series was first aired on uk telly about 5 years ago.I agree they're quality documentaries 👍 There's 3 series' (22 episodes).

Now we a F1 race there. My message got deleted. I was saying it was political alliances with the German run Baku refinery and export that really hurt the German war machine. For lack of going into detail that's it.

_'In all fairness you can't have factories without access to natural resources...'_ True. _'like oil to begin with.'_ Not true 'to begin with' . The most important resource for factories was coal. This was true for not only for Germany and Japan but also UK and US. Coal was king back then. How was coal Japan's most important resource? In 1936, it provided 51.4 per cent of Japan’s energy needs, serving both industry and households. Firewood and charcoal accounted for 18.6 per cent of Japan’s total energy consumption, mostly for household use. Electric power provided most of the rest of Japan’s energy, at 21.3 per cent. Depending on the season, hydroelectric power provided up to 78% of electricity and the remainder came from coal. (Had Japan built more reservoirs coal's use in generating electricity could have been reduced greatly.) Hydroelectric power provided 25 per cent of Japan's industries' energy whilst coal powered 71.2 per cent of Japanese industrial operations. Petroleum accounted for only 7.9 per cent of Japanese energy use, but, since this was *largely for military use* , it had disproportionate strategic importance. By 1940, coal had become even more important, supplying 66.1 per cent of Japan’s energy needs (civilian, industrial, agricultural, and military), while electric power provided 16.2 per cent, firewood and charcoal 10.7 per cent, and petroleum only 7.0 per cent. Companies like Toto, a maker of ceramic products which is energy intensive production, switched from oil to heat its kilns to coal and coal gas. Other than Japan's military, who consumed oil? The merchant and fishing fleets, though some of the merchant fleet still used coal in whole or in part. When war with the US began, much of Japan's fishing fleet had its operational range significantly reduced and many fisherman were drafted. This lack of manpower affected many other industries as well as skilled workers were inducted by a military that did not consider the consequences to industrial productivity. Coal was important to the entire economy yet during the '40s coal was mined by men too old to induct, women, children, and forced labourers from Korea as well as POWs. Certainly vehicles relied on petroleum products such as gasoline and diesel, but Japan had only 0.5% of the vehicles the US had. Rationing began in 1938 and by 1941 almost no fuel was available for civilian vehicles except trucks, which numbered 77,000. Gasoline for civilian use fell 66% between 1938 and 1941 _before_ Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Even public buses were were converted from diesel and gasoline to coal and charcoal. Railroads were powered by coal (intercity routes) and electricity (intracity routes). Commercial airline service barely existed; Japan Air Transport carried 70,000 passengers in 1938, many of whom were military officers and government officials. Civilian aviation was a niche business sector. Coal was also the source for chemicals such as nitrates and ammonia for use as fertilisers and industrial feedstocks. This began with the Haber process and then the alternative Casale, Claude, and the Mont-Cenis processes. Hydroelectric dams also can be used for nitrogen fixation, i.e. converting into ammonia or related nitrogenous compounds. Both Japan and Germany had large deposits of coal (as did the US and UK). In Japan significant reserves were in Kyushu and in Hokkaido and smaller reserves in the Ube and Joban areas of Honshu. Japan lacked coking coal, needed for steel, in the amount needed to build all the munitions the militarists wanted, which is why it grabbed North China. By 1940 more than half of Japan's steel went to munitions. Oil replaced coal's importance in industry _after_ WWII, starting with the US (in 1949 iirc) and expanding to other industrialised countries in the '50s and '60s. _'in fact, that's why the war started to begin with.'_ I think you put the cart before the horse. Japan and Germany could have continued to buy resources just like everyone else. If we look at 'peacetime' Japan's oil imports of 1936 (before the military took over the economy), we find Japan was importing less than 30 million barrels from the US. Yet even this total was inflated due to the 1934 law requiring oil importers to maintain a 6-month stockpile in Japan. (Japan built an oil stockpile exceeding 50 million barrels, estimated to be two years' civilian consumption, before 1940.) The average price of oil in 1936 was $1.09 per barrel (and ranged from $1.02 to $1.18 per barrel from 1937 to 1941), meaning that Japan's oil bill ranged from about $32 million to $40 million. But the militarists took over and military solutions were the answers to all problems.

The 4D32 engine was a diesel ,therefore no Webers!!!

maxim first

Not arguably but top, a war changing inventor.

As a scale modeller thwir hobby supplies and kits are way better then their american counterparts but their models are being supplanted by companies like dragon out of china. But it still has its place if i am looking for a decent kit thats not as indepth as say a dragon kit tamiya is still a solid vhoice for when i don't feel lile making 30 road wheels for a panzer that have 12 parts per wheel.....yes that is literally how many parts are in a dragon panzer 4 road wheel.

Sad we still need to do what?!?

Indeed. Sadly, war is big business today. Biggest business in the free world is weapons manufacturers.

I'd rather live my life without any war

​@@WarnockRaffertymaking ammunition for war .... Kinda what this is about. Where did you go to school?

How? GM has gone all electric

With jam on it.

I don’t recall them mention that AVROE also had a shadow factory in Canada as a safety guarantee & they were the best of all the Lancs, because they also armed with .50BMGs, not just .303s

not in your opinion it's fact. This whole doco is presented very poorly.

First assault rifle to be the 1st "mass produced", not the 1st made.

Well, yes and no. There is the matter of when, where and the evolution of tactics. When the Japanese were attacking Darwin in northern Australia, Spitfires were hurriedly rushed to the area to deal with AM6 Zero escorts to the bombers. Within a relatively short time, the Spitfire formation was seriously mauled.

A very long while ago my father let me play with a Duralamim tube. It had been formed like blown plastic and was closed by a screwon cap. Both parts were almost like foil. But unlike foil it was rigged. Again, unlike foil if I bent it, I could not get it back. Instead it broke in this child's hands.

In fairness, midway was hard on Japan. They lost not only carriers but most of their trained and experienced pilots. Never could replace them.

Those crafts were instrumental in defeating the real threat. The Luftwaffe before the ME-262 jet fighter could reak disaster againt the bombers.

Canada also built 430 Lancaster, the Avro should also have been featured

Can you see rocket launches from your house?

Erm......

What was archaic about the P-40 ? The Mitsubishi and Curtis were close contemporaries and approximations (or better) of the contemporary state of the art. Both had weaknesses and virtues. Used wisely, both were very effective in combat. They were different types of machines. The Zero was a naval deck fighter. The P-40 was never even modified for that role. Both were used in various roles until the conclusion of hostilities. Both were rather obsolete by that time, but still they were still given importance. The P-40 was an evolution of the P-35. That did not make it archaic.

i see it to😂😂😂

Take a look at Afghanistan. Haha

They couldn't have planned it as they almost could not even locate them. Fog of war.

Is this a troll, or do you really believe that? Even this this weak documentary contradicts you vis vis the Chinese refusing to even rise up to intercept the much more advanced Japanese fighter escorts. They knew their biplane machines would be decimated by modern, first line, Japanese monoplane escorts.

Watched the entire doco without seeing that. Your comment made me see that. Dude was like "I have to go right now" He flung out his schlong and started dripping😂😂😂😂

Dude had to go at that moment. It was funny hw he didn't give a hoot whether a top official was visiting. He just turned his back them and did his thing! 😂😂😂

might not be relevant to this video mate but i enjoyed reading that because i learned something new. thanks for sharing.