WWII Bouncing Bomb Tests at Ashley Walk, New Forest 1943

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WWII Bouncing Bomb Tests at Ashley Walk, New Forest 1943
Code named 'Highball'. A type of 'Bouncing Bomb' designed by Dr Barnes Wallis. Spherical (ball like) in shape it was designed to be used against large ships. Two of these could be carried and deployed by a single De Havilland Mosquito aircraft. In 1943 the Ashley Walk Bombing Range in the north of the New Forest near Godshill was used as a test and training range for inert versions of the bomb. A target, No.3 Wall Target, was specifically constructed on the range for these tests.
During the footage (@3.46) it was first thought Amberwood Cottage could be seen in the background. It is now known that this is not the case. Do you know what building this is? Email us at archaeology@newforestnpa.gov.uk
This archive footage from the Imperial War Museum has come to light following the commencement and continued research of the New Forest National Park Authority's 'New Forest Remembers -- Untold Stories of World War II' project. For more details and to see the growing online digital archive about the New Forest during WWII visit www.newforestnpa.gov.uk/wwii and following the links to the Interactive Portal.

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@stevemcilroy9518 3 года назад

1943 observers were fine, they were wearing safety goggles.

@andyh1219 3 года назад

And masks

@cameronalexander359 2 года назад

"They lied, the googles do nothing" Raineer Wolfcastle.

@BradBrassman Год назад

@@andyh1219 ...and steel toecapped wellies.

@derek-press 8 лет назад

I never knew they tested this on land too,amazing film!

@samuelparker9882 7 лет назад

zghvbn1 Man is a genius in his approach when it comes to killing other men. Fantastic piece of history here!!

@derek-press 7 лет назад

the pilots and crew were just amazing ,thanks for bringing me back to this wonderful footage after a year!

@pdwcave 5 лет назад

I believe they were going to use these bombs on train tunnels.

@wat8437 4 года назад

there was a very interesting bombing technique used in ww2 known as "skip bombing"

@wat8437 4 года назад

@@pdwcave they were used in the infamous "Operation Chastise", where they were used to blow up german dams. They bounce, or skip to the target & sink to a preset depth where they detonate close to the wall, the water amplifying the explosion, shockwave etc, destroying it.

@lazycalm41 3 года назад

Incredible footage! Those observers in the back ground had never of steel. If that was repeated in todays PC world they would have had to be 5 miles away wearing 2 hard hats , A high vis jacket and a clip board in each hand with 23 Health and Safety forms on it!

@raymondo162 3 года назад

prolly along with triplicate, fully-signed waivers

@notsoberoveranalyzer8264 2 года назад

Bro, how the fuck did you bring PC culture into it? You’re aware, if those bad asses had been offered safety precautions, they would’ve taken it. Just like today, when time is of the essence, there are going to be people to gladly step up. The bit about the clipboard did get me though lol

@bizzyizzy9526 2 года назад

Takes "keeping the eye on the ball" to a whole new level! 😨

@martinramsdale99 5 лет назад

The courage and skill of our RAF pilots of long ago prove they could handle it head on during those dark days I Salute them all too gone but never forgotten

@sonnyburnett8725 3 года назад

Absolute hero’s of your nation. As an American I can only watch in Aah at their performance. They were doing something never done/tried before and under fire.

@martinramsdale99 3 года назад

@@sonnyburnett8725 don't forget some American pilots joined the RAF to get a piece of the action before the USA entered the second World so salute to them also from me across the pond too

@martinramsdale99 3 года назад

@@daviddou1408 DECEMBER 2020 thanks for the info

@madcarew.3256 4 года назад

Standing in the background wearing Gaberdeen Macks and Stout Brogues Virtually indestructible!!

@BradBrassman 3 года назад

They went up Everest like that. Shorter Gaberdeen jackets though, and spikes on the brogues.

@runlarryrun77 3 года назад

Legend says they're still standing there now.

@raymondo162 3 года назад

pedantically speaking, they were in fact wearing gaberdine macs (macintoshes). also: they were ALL called Reg. true dat.

@mcblaze1968 4 года назад

Love the Mossie.

@mollyfilms 3 года назад

The Mosquito in my eyes was the sexiest aircraft of the Second World War.

@marine4lyfe85 3 года назад

P - 51 Mustang

@mollyfilms 3 года назад

@@marine4lyfe85 a close second I agree.

@jonflanagin6682 3 года назад

Sorry ,but the P-38 beats them all!!!!!!!!

@alexwilliamson1486 3 года назад

Without doubt the most VERSATILE allied a/c of Second World War....

@aleksisdanielsekks3051 3 года назад

Cries in P-51 P38 F4U Mig-3 Do. 335 ( but that's just my opinion)

@CaiPrice Год назад

That is absolutely terrifying

@TasteOfIrony 3 года назад

Imagine a line of bombers dropping these along a front line...

@copee2960 5 лет назад

Never mind the bomb......how close were those men standing to the target wall.

@watcherzero5256 4 года назад

They were standing like 20 meters from the target and 10 meters from the bombs trajectory. Freaking crazy, if the plane had only been slightly off target.

@wat8437 4 года назад

@@watcherzero5256 they were dummy warheaads

@stephenphillip5656 3 года назад

It's OK, they'd done a Risk Assessment. The result was... It was *risky!*

@Ingens_Scherz 3 года назад

If only 'elf 'n safety had been in charge of World War II. Think how many unnecessary workplace injuries could have been avoided.

@saugeyes 3 года назад

So close they felt a breeze as it rolled by

@johndavey72 4 года назад

Footage l have never seen . Thankyou for giving us the privilege of viewing what must have been top secret film. Any comment l would have made has already been taken care of by other viewers. And once again thankyou RU-vid.

@knightlife98 4 года назад

So cool, those bombs skipping on the water like that!

@Flingwing24 2 года назад

Ashley walk is worth a wander. They also tested Grandslam/Tallboy up there against dummy sub pens (now covered with earth). The hard standing and observers bunker for one range target is still there as are night bombing nav aids (safety markers to give crews confirmation of range run in direction). Our forest is full of history. Occasionally bits get dug up and blown up but finding shrapnel, mortar bomb tails or grenade plugs is a real possibility in some areas

@TrexplorerUK Год назад

They aren't actually sub pens though. That's just a name they have become known as. Was actually a structure to test the strength of air raid shelter designs against bombs.

@Flingwing24 Год назад

So it appears. nfknowledge.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/61.pdf

@fljw5814 8 месяцев назад

It's not just your country. It's all countries participating in the war

@Flingwing24 8 месяцев назад

What isn't? Come on, get it off your chest.

@P61guy61 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing

@davidduffy9806 5 лет назад

Truly rapid iteration requires, entails risk. This is why the technology has slowed since those remarkable men passed. Their acceptance of the unacceptably dangerous whilst in pursuit of the greater good was their unique talent and calling.

@Mishn0 4 года назад

Elon Musk says, "hold my beer"

@dulls8475 4 года назад

@@Mishn0 When did he risk his life?

@sonnyburnett8725 3 года назад

@@dulls8475 , Kinda missing the point, aren’t you!

@dulls8475 3 года назад

@@sonnyburnett8725 Kinda not...

@allangibson8494 16 дней назад

The American tests resulted in the loss of at least two aircraft when the bomb bounced into the bottom of the slower American bombers…

@OdeeOz 3 года назад

Fascinating films. I always loved these types of historical documents.

@notsoberoveranalyzer8264 2 года назад

The accuracy on these things seem pretty freaking insane. Considering they can be used on both land and water, and with different types of planes at different altitudes. Granted that the accuracy is far from 100%.

@bigblue6917 4 года назад

Imagine being one of a ships AAA crew and see that Highball hurtling towards you. Bit difficult to keep your eye on the target aircraft rather then the ball.

@joebryant8500 3 года назад

Guy Gibson was 24 when he led Operation CHASTISE in May 1943. 24. Rest in peace.

@Leatherface123. 3 года назад

My first name is Gibson

@stevetheduck1425 3 года назад

He had joined a Handley-Page Hampden bomber squadron shortly before WWII began, within two years he was the only surviving pilot from that time. He then became a night-fighter pilot and used RADAR to intercept German bombers. THEN he commanded a mixed squadron of Avro Manchesters and Lancsters until finally he was 'tour-expired'. Normally that would have resulted in him becoming an instructor pilot, a time at HQ, then perhaps another ground command of a Wing of two or more Squadrons. He was asked to form 617 Squadron and make 'one more trip'. After the Dams raid with 617, he was sent on a tour of America and Britain to make publicity speeches, resulting in him choosing to returning to operations as a Master Bomber, flying a smaller Mosquito marker aircraft. On about his third or so trip, he did not return. One of very few airmen to survive two tours and another as a night-fighter, he chose to remain flying.

@epicmeerkat1677 3 года назад

@@stevetheduck1425 your the type of guy to write an essay but double the length of what it was meant to be

@fordrestored4646 4 года назад

I would crap my pants if I saw that thing skipping towards my ship

@julianandkate 6 лет назад

My great uncle was Lancaster pilot during Ww2 for Dam busters it was a highly secretive and specialised program I remember a photo of his plane with two lights one in the middle and one on the tail of his bomber I never knew what they were for until I grew up very brave men test pilots and the dam busters alike

@rotten9262 2 года назад

kkk

@LockeAnimations Год назад

Just learned about those lights in geometry class!

@johnanderson3410 2 года назад

618 were based initially at RAF Skitten in Scotland. For the Loch Striven trials the aircraft were based at RAF Turnberry, initially against the obsolete French warship Courbet and then HMS Malaya . Trials were also carried out at Wells-next-the-Sea using RAF Beccles. Here crews were also instructed in simulated aircraft carrier landings prior to deployment to Australia. 618 left for Oz on board HMS Fencer & Striker on 31 Oct 1944. 618 were then based at RAAF Narromine near Sydney. Operation Oxtail was the planned use of Highball against the Japanese fleet, but no attacks took place and 618 were disbanded on 21 July 1945. Politics? The live Highballs were destroyed in static explosions and the aircraft/special equipment scrapped/dumped at sea. Baseball was a smaller, third version of the "bouncing bomb" for the Navy to be tube launched from ships to replace torpedoes.

@therevenantgamer7343 2 года назад

Dude it punched a hole through that ship wall like it was nothing. Cannot imagine that smashing through the wall right next to me

@JensontheBasterd 6 месяцев назад

Its crazy that this type of bomb didn't catch on that thing is fucking terrifying imagine 40 of them all bouncing through your city then exploding

@gglen2141 4 года назад

It's amazing that there were dudes just standing there observing.

@ALLROY240 3 года назад

Kind of like running with the bulls.

@Klappfall 3 года назад

Wow. The Mosquito is so nice and beautiful. :D Best regards from NorthEastGermany

@raymondo162 3 года назад

is it too pacifist to suggest: so nice and beautiful job they did on dresden ??

@Klappfall 3 года назад

@@raymondo162 I Like the Airplane, Not the War !!!

@skidzholeshot1316 4 года назад

lovley shot of the mossie,there is also footage of a lancaster getting its tail torn off by the bigger balls during testing ,being to low

@charlesbonkley 3 года назад

H.M.S. Malaya: "That's enough. Playtime's over."

@KB4QAA 3 года назад

Point of definition: The observers were in the "Foreground", not the background.

@justinmoody6721 3 года назад

watch the video before the one you are referring to

@orhanosmanoglu1336 3 года назад

The First Men in History that invented this Technique was Fatih Sultan Mehmed in 1453 he bounced canon balls over the Strait of Bosporus the Water in to the walls of Constantinople.

@stanpotter7764 2 года назад

I bet that made an interesting sound!

@dp-sr1fd 3 года назад

They were supposed to sink down the side of the vessel then explode. But they had such inertia that they went straight through the ship's armour plate. I think that is why they weren't practical.

@Flingwing24 2 года назад

The reason they didn't get deployed was that they were destined for the Japanese but the surrender came before deployment

@allosaurusfragilis7782 2 года назад

I live facing Loch striven. Apparently there are bouncing bombs on the sea bed, left over from practise runs.

@88997799 3 года назад

Reminds me of those spinning balls of destruction from the movie Battleship!

@mantistoboggan5171 3 года назад

Wht admit to watching that horseshit?

@watcherzero5256 4 года назад

Dropping a bomb on HMS Malaya at that time in the reserve and you can see goes straight through her side. But Malaya was returned to service after this test as a standby reserve for Normandy.

@BradBrassman 3 года назад

Thats Malaya is it? I thought it was a QE class looking at the guns.

@F3502000 7 лет назад

That's some cool stuff right there!

@bphenry 3 года назад

Strange but true fact... These big steel balls they were dropping were only slightly smaller than those on the guys standing in the background at 2:43 .

@Samurasa. 3 года назад

Put the video in 2x, and the video will turn into 60fps

@conhawks 9 лет назад

great stuff

@jjgbg222 3 года назад

amazing flying skills

@stefanmargraf7878 3 года назад

Pretty simple, but destoyes targets with very high precision.

@sidyajv 3 года назад

Man, is that a crazy ball or something. It sure does bounces alot.

@markbailey3508 5 лет назад

Apparently 618squadron that was tasked with delivering highball was based for a brief time at RAF beccles and used the main runway for dropping trials

@johnanderson3410 2 года назад

@James Satchwill 618 were the Highball squadron

@tooyoungtobeold8756 5 лет назад

The Mosquito a fantastic aircraft. These bombs in the video were not for the Ruhr dams

@grizzlydynamics 2 года назад

LOL 4:53 was like: ‘Ah put that away kid‘ *slaps bomb*

@triffidgrower 3 года назад

The Axis powers could never have conceived of the effectiveness of delivering a good yorker in battle...

@koitorob 3 года назад

I'm guessing that's a cricket term?

@eruston 6 лет назад

That thing went into the ship like a hot knife through butter. Very innovative and well ahead of its time. It seems to use the impact as an acceleration! It seems there is some type of back spin that, at impact, used the impulse energy to tighten a coil maybe? The impulse force is many thousands of times powerful than simple kinetic deformations/sound/and light output/resultant forces that happen with normal collisions. It’s part of the reason knee joint fluid is so amazing. A runner experiences impulse forces in his/her knees constantly. Without the amazing combination of cartilage and joint fluid, bones would shatter after just a short period of use. Very interesting that they chose ‘bouncing’ method for landing at least one of the mars rovers. Maybe they reversed the intention of the bouncing bomb (added a forward spin to decelerate more effectively).

@davidacseager 6 лет назад

Upkeep and Highball used backward spin when dropped on water. When Highball was tested for dropping on the ground, forward spin was used. There is video available showing tests where they tried to bowl Highballs into a tunnel. I do not know whether the video is available online but it can be seen at Brooklands Museum (brooklandsmuseum.com) in the Barnes Wallis display.

@theprophetez1357 5 лет назад

Actually they were using bouncing bombs even in the Revolutionary war. They would have cannon that were low to the water surface, and they would heat the balls red hot in a furnace before firing them at ships. They have one at Ft Washington outside of DC.

@ianb9028 5 лет назад

Couple of things heated shot was not bounced, it was used to set fire to the ship it was aimed at. By embedding itself into planking. The concept of bouncing the cannonball off the water was used for several centuries. Nelson is said to have used it to great effect in the Battle of the Nile against the French fleet.

@andrewlowes9123 4 года назад

@@davidacseager I have seen the tunnel film online and it was amazing I was looking for it again and ended up here, so I do not know where I saw it

@mikewellwood1412 4 года назад

@@ianb9028 I've just been re-reading Paul Brickhill's "The Dam Busters" (which tells the story of 617 squadron right to the end of the war in Europe, not just the dams raid). He reckons that on one occasion at least, German Flak gunners bounced shells off water when trying to hit low-flying Lancasters. Whether that was entirely true, or author's licence, I don't know; he was a good writer though, and a one-time Spitfire pilot; shot down and became a POW, and was involved in the prisoner escape plan that became "The Great Escape". He wrote a book of that name on which the film was based.

@BRA09UT 3 года назад

The de Havilland Aircraft Museum at Salisbury Hall UK has an original Highball on show recovered from Loch Striven. It has a very nice flat spot where it struck the ship. You should also see the video of them trying to bounce them into railway tunnels. Very very dangerous for aircrew!

@johnanderson3410 2 года назад

The tunnel trials took place against a rail tunnel at Maenclochog in Wales on 7 October 1943. A Mosquito flown by Shorty Longbottom and base at RAF Angle dropped 12 inert forward spun stores. Barnes Wallis, Rear Admiral Renouf and others vowed the drops. The thinking was to possibly use them against railway tunnels in Northern Italy. Explosive trials also took place at disused tunnels at Toldish in Cornwall and at Moss near Wrexham.

@steven2212 3 года назад

Amazing. And the stones of those aircrew. The immediate left and up maneuver after release was the result of an earlier test, when the bomb flew up after the initial bounce and destroyed the aircraft. Not pretty.

@raymondo162 3 года назад

link pls

@steven2212 3 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PCGpzRzY7fY.html

@stevetheduck1425 3 года назад

The Douglas A26 Invader that lost it's tail to a Highball / Speedee bomb was in April 1945, after the British Highball tests.

@zozzamozzi 3 года назад

Luv that cheeky Mozzy

@johnnorth5824 3 года назад

High stakes bowling

@Dynioglowy1986 3 года назад

I knew British like bowling but this is just too much :P

@martiniv8924 4 года назад

Incredible!

@boblordylordyhowie 5 месяцев назад

It would have been nice to have seen the inside of the ship to see what damage it did even though it did not explode, a 1mt round ball hitting at 200mph would have been devastating.

@michaelnaisbitt1590 3 года назад

Any sailor on a ship seeing a Mosquito comi g at you at 380 mph plus and dropping a bomb like that would have anyone looking for clean undies

@stevebrickshitta870 3 года назад

Fascinating. A cultural treasure.

@plainguy4996 3 года назад

The observers were actually in the foreground.

@belowme70-1 3 года назад

:when bowling just isn't enough anymore...this would have been such a terrifying sight to see barreling down on you!

@sonnyburnett8725 3 года назад

What isn’t made clear is that they must level off then drop, otherwise it most likely bounces back and hits the aircraft. Brave and skilled men.

@paullee5573 3 года назад

J2s best friend. I seem to remember 617 squadron flying as low as 20feet duringg dome of the tests in the lake district. Another's interesting fact is that the bomb aiming sight was made out of a chopped up coat hanger and some nails.

@nicedog1 4 года назад

4.22 All that because they lost the key to the toilet door.

@dorsetdumpling5387 3 года назад

You get a hint of it in some of these videos, but there was a real danger to the dropping aircraft from water or dirt, thrown up by the bomb, or the bomb itself, hitting the aircraft. The RAF nearly lost a Wellington (?) when water hit the tailplanes, and the Americans did lose an A26 and all four crew members when the bomb itself bounced up and tore the back end off the plane. Footage of both incidents can be found on YT. Explains why the pilots were keen to get away from the damned thing!

@Flingwing24 2 года назад

Lancs also received damaged tail surfaces IIRC from the Upkeep mines water plume. Wasn't Highball used on the Gestapo prison at Amiens?

@theinquisitor8590 6 лет назад

*Could you imagine being on a Nazi ship during WWII and seeing 10 of these things, skipping across the water, heading directly for your ship?*

@dnlcast2 5 лет назад

No, because that never happened in WWII LOL

@Markus_Andrew 3 года назад

Fun fact: In the movie The Dambusters, 617 Squadron's Lancasters were shown equipped with the spherical variant of the Highball as seen here. In reality, the bombs 617 used on the dams raid were cylindrical, not spherical, with roughly the proportions of a 44-gallon drum (but a lot bigger, of course). It had been discovered that the cylindrical shape was less prone to oscillating, or wobbling, after each bounce. Unless the spherical bomb was dropped precisely, these wobbles would get worse with each successive bounce, and this adversely affected the accuracy and travel distance of the bomb. 617 was depicted using the spherical variant in the movie because at the time of filming (1955), the cylindrical version was still classified by the RAF as Top Secret.

@johnanderson3410 2 года назад

Barnes Wallis believed the weapons (Upkeep and Highball) should be spherical in shape as per his early experiments and trials in late 1942/early 43 at Chesil Beach. To create the spherical shape of Upkeep (the dam busting version) pine staves with steel ties were strapped around the cylindrical mine similar to a wooden beer barrel. Highball was a different construction altogether. During trials at Reculver in 1943, the staves kept breaking off when impacting the water. Eventually in April 1943 (a month ahead of the raid) it was seen that the Upkeep kept bouncing despite the loss of the staves and so the cylinder version was used on the raid.

@Markus_Andrew 2 года назад

@@johnanderson3410 Excellent info, cheers!

@johnanderson3410 2 года назад

@@Markus_Andrew My sources are the wartime diaries and paperwork of Lt Cdr Leo Lane RNVR (my wife's uncle) who was a trials officer and a part of Barnes Wallis's wartime team. He organised the various trials (mainly Highball) around the UK through to the end of the war. I have a probably unique pine stave from an Upkeep hung in my garden shed!

@Markus_Andrew 2 года назад

@@johnanderson3410 Thank you so much for sharing, it's most interesting indeed to hear from someone who has such a close tie to these events. I have been fascinated by this subject since my adolescence (I'm almost 62 now). It really is an extraordinary piece of history. Sounds like you have an extraordinary piece of history yourself, right there in your garden shed!

@johnanderson3410 2 года назад

@@Markus_Andrew A few years ago I had a small brass engraved plaque made to go on the stave to record what it was. My children and grandchildren are fully aware of its importance, but I did not want someone in the future to just assume it was bit of old wood to be chopped up for kindling!

@Angelpmac 3 года назад

You put the people in that one clip, I looked back no people the previous ones hahaha gotcha lolzzzzz :)

@christopherlovelock9104 3 года назад

One of these 'test' bombs was found off Reculver in the mud still intact not many years ago and recovered, by (I think) the army. I presume it is in a museum somewhere, but where I don't know.

@pjweds 3 года назад

www.kentonline.co.uk/herne-bay/news/bomb-found-on-beach-used-by-dambusters-187746/ This one ?

@kevincarroll8829 4 года назад

What scares me the most is two events in the films. A) The bloody bomb after bouncing away from the wall, has enough kinetic energy to roll back for another go at the wall. B)The people standing around near these tests. Didn't they know "Murphy's Maxim". "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong at the WORST possible time."

@WANDTVDoug1444 2 года назад

I wonder if any of these bounced back up and it the plane?

@Madhuntr 3 года назад

4:58 did that bomb just go THROUGH the armour of a warship? damn

@Dawgsofwinter 3 года назад

That would have been the bow armor so it was much thinner than if they'd have pegged her maybe 30 feet closer to the turret say bout half way down the barrels length. Her REAL armor would have started there. give or take depends on the ship but pretty much all BB's had thin(in comparison) bow and stern armor.

@scottparis6355 4 года назад

There's another video on YT of an A26 dropping a skipping bomb on water from a much lower altitude. (Maybe 15 or 20 feet.) The bomb bounces and takes the tail off the aircraft, which hits the water at high speed with 2 or 3 seconds of the drop, instantly killing the crew. This was dangerous stuff, and no one knew exactly what would happen.

@poruatokin 3 года назад

That was their screw-up. The minimum drop height had already been very rigidly set during trials, then some yanks thought they could do it better. Only they didn't.

@shawnkinser1164 6 лет назад

Pretty ingenious for 1943

@natasspin3015 2 года назад

Some of the people close range were possibly the scientists of the time. Science is always about catching a good and replicable result in a sea of tests, errors and horrible fails

@johnanderson3410 Год назад

I have the wartime diaries of Lt Cdr Leo Lane RNVR (my wife's uncle) who was the trials officer for Highball ( also Upkeep and Tallboy). He recorded all the trial locations in the diaries including Ashley Walk. Barnes Wallis was present at some of the trials. Other on land locations included Porton Down and Maenclochog rail tunnel.

@scottessery100 3 года назад

Those mosquito pilots were bloody good

@bobgibb2781 3 года назад

Featured in the highly fictionalised film Mosquito Squadron using the last three operational Mosquitoes of the RAF Meteorological Flight ( I believe ) I don't think Highball was used operationally on land though .

@JasonBlack66 3 года назад

I am so impressed that if I ever have a son or daughter I will name them "Highball"

@dnh3005 3 года назад

Image thinking “lol they missed” and then seeing a freaking bom bouncing to you.

@dontall71 3 года назад

How were these bombs detonated?

@daviddavis3155 3 года назад

Weren’t these used on the “Dam Busters” mission?

@hissingsid3907 3 года назад

No, that was Operation Chastise and was a different type of bomb which was more barrel shaped.

@autodidact537 3 года назад

I don't understand why you're asking the comment section of a YT video when you could just google your question & have an answer in a minute or two. What's wrong with you?

@TimoAbraham 3 года назад

Back in the days there were no phones so people had lots of fun even in the millitary division. See they even did skipping bombs

@philginn9087 2 года назад

People also didn’t wear a bicycle helmet to ride in the neighborhood back then.

@1.4142 2 года назад

When the military skips stones for fun

@skidzholeshot1316 4 года назад

kinetic friction energy producing light,or its several camera flash going of on point of impact for analisis.

@TheButlerNZ 3 года назад

Or just an overexposed puff of dust like in a later one... 1:50

@roberthardy3090 3 года назад

About 5 million Joules kinetic energy on impact, just over the detonation energy of a kg of TNT, sufficient to vaporise a fair bit of concrete and produce quite a flash of light.

@herberteinstein7823 3 года назад

0:50 Damn, that Mosquito has six-bladed propellers :-P

@skidzholeshot1316 4 года назад

the second mossie has 5 blade props on those merlins,ive never seen that before could they be griffen engines

@dhy5342 3 года назад

Take another look. It shows 6 apparent blades but it's a ghosting artifact of the rpm and the camera's shutter speed. They're three-bladed props, standard on all Mosquitoes.

@raymondo162 3 года назад

merlins in spitfires had a variety of propellors over their lifetime of development

@dhy5342 3 года назад

@@raymondo162 True. The prototype had a two-blade prop, production versions had 3, 4, 5, and 6 (two 3 blade counter-rotating) props.

@harryschaefer5887 3 года назад

Was a backspin applied to the bomb before release?

@ALLROY240 3 года назад

Definitely. They had it spinning in the bomb bay, then dropped.

@stevetheduck1425 3 года назад

The bombs are clearly spinning backwards in the video just we watched, that didn't happen after they were dropped from the plane.

@mrb.5610 3 года назад

So why was it never used - anyone ??

@thisnicklldo 3 года назад

They had problems getting it working properly in 43. By the time they had sorted it all out in late 44, most of the targets were no longer around - Tirpitz and other naval targets etc. It required a lot of training which used up valuable Mosquito pilots and was obviously very dangerous to release - low level straight line flying etc, as the Dambusters found out to their cost. I guess that any Admiral will have wanted to understand how it was better than a torpedo, or maybe a glider bomb, or any of a range of wizard wheezes that were being tried out, never mind straightforward bombing.

@poruatokin 3 года назад

@@thisnicklldo Might have been an ideal weapon for Operation Jericho on Amiens prison if the timing was right.

@mrb.5610 3 года назад

@@thisnicklldo All good points ! I suppose the higher attack speed is an advantage but looking at the film, it certainly looks like a 'death run' coming in that low and with the banking turn after release giving a nice big profile for the ship's defense gunners to aim at. A big bomb dropped from a tall height is probably the safer option !

@davidsike734 3 года назад

Works nice on flat ground or calm water but how about in real conditions like adding waves.

@autodidact537 3 года назад

Why haven't you just googled the Dam Busters' the RAF really did have some success using the skipping bomb concept against real German Dams.

@RomboutVersluijs 3 года назад

The test bomb looked quite different vs the actually bomb. This one looked more a tube shaped form vs the actual bomb was a cylinder

@jefhaggis88 3 года назад

There were two designs- Upkeep- dam buster bomb, looked like an oil drum and Highball- carried by Mosquitoes- designed for use against shipping- that’s what you see in this film. It was never actually used in action unlike the much bigger Upkeep bomb(dam buster).

@johnfairhurstReviews 3 года назад

If you look for Drydock 104 from Drachinifel's chanel there's a still of a Highball bomb, looking like an oversized golf ball

@maineoutdoorsman677 7 лет назад

Wow it seemed to speed up after the 3 bounce an leveled off man that's fast .almost took the plane out

@johnsullivan395 7 лет назад

The Americans tested them too and one of their planes was taken out by a bomb on the bounce and catching the tail ...too low. There's footage of the plane crashing on here somewhere. A Douglas Invader, IIRC.

@simonbaxter8001 6 лет назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PCGpzRzY7fY.html

@johnanderson3410 6 лет назад

As you say Highball was tested on the Douglas A26 Invader in the UK (Wells next the Sea) and then in the USA (Code word Speedeee), but the A26 crashed on test in the USA (too low & as you say Highball broke off the tail). The US then lost interest. Highball was also tested on the Gruman Avenger at Wells. 618 (Highball) Sqn were sent to Australia in 1945 (but were not permitted to attack the Japanese fleet as the Pacific was the USA's area influence?) before the atomic bomb attacks on Japan ended the war. The Mosquitos, equipment and live Highballs were subsequently destroyed in Oz.

@ditzydoo4378 4 года назад

A truly devastating weapon, too bad that once it was in operation the Italians they were going to try it on first quit. So they took it north after SMS Tirpitz, but she got sunk by a Tall-Boy first. So they packed up and went to the Pacific, but by the time they arrived pretty much all Japanese surfaces ships were sunk and two Cities were evaporated... o_0 One might wonder if the world at large just didn't want to get hit by a bouncing "Highball"... >_

@paullee5573 3 года назад

If it were not for the bouncing bomb you would be goosestepping and murdering even more poor innocent jews. Read your history books.

@ditzydoo4378 3 года назад

@@paullee5573 the Dam-Buster were a shock to the Hun. which squadron was it again???

@paullee5573 3 года назад

@@ditzydoo4378 If I remember correctly it was 617 squadron.

@ditzydoo4378 3 года назад

@@paullee5573 thank you. I some times get it confused with the old Cliff Roberts movie 633 Squadron.

@paullee5573 3 года назад

@@ditzydoo4378 Yes, lots of people make that mistake. I do actually have some 8mm cine film that Barnes Wallace shot during the testing of this project. Several people have asked me to put in on here. So I will. But I cannot say when it will be. Watch this space for further details.

@MIKEDUZZI420 3 года назад

Crazy to see folks standing g down range from the point of impact. That thing could hit something under the ground and go off course. Hitting a person would splatter them even if it didnt explode.

@JohnSmith-vi5pz 2 года назад

They could have stepped out of the way, they were all watching it.

@railgap 4 года назад

Whoa; triboluminescence from portland cement (gypsum crystals)! Also, I wonder how they were gonna fuse these things.

@davidturner7577 4 года назад

hydrostatic pistols for the anti-ship version. they were meant to impact the belt armor, sink to a set depth against the hull, and detonate below the armor. don't know what the plan was for the proposed use on land against rail tunnels.

@tango6nf477 3 года назад

I wonder why this wasn't deployed against the Tirpitz. one of these exploding under the keel would probably have broken her back/

@daniellastuart3145 3 года назад

i guess thy could not get the run in

@PenzancePete 3 года назад

Correct. That's why Tirpitz was holed up in a fjord.

@stevetheduck1425 3 года назад

The Tirpitz was docked in a relatively narrow waterway, with mountains close on each side. Midget submarines were able to damage her, US Navy planes attacked her, several RAF bombing raids attacked her, she was moved, reduced in importance and finally finished off by RAF Lancasters using the Grand Slam 22,00lb bombs from high altitude. Look up RAF Tirpitz Grand Slam for the film shot during the raid.

@bananajoe3669 3 года назад

04:54 Knock knock... "Anybody home?" It would be interesting how it works under wavy conditions!

@elektrolyte 3 года назад

yeh, I imagine the slightest of waves would send it all over the place

@LCMNUNES1962 5 лет назад

INCRIVÉL IMPÁCTO DA BOLA, BRASIL OK.

@dustyroads834 3 года назад

Did it have a back spin on the ground tests also ?

@stevetheduck1425 3 года назад

Yes. As is clearly visible in the video.

@Wildstar40 3 года назад

I wonder what the differences would be if they got the Bouncing Bomb spinning up to ten thousand revolutions per minute.

@autodidact537 3 года назад

Why are you asking the comment section your question, don't you know how to use google?

@Wildstar40 3 года назад

@@autodidact537 Sometimes people have ideas not mentioned in Google. I like to explore every avenue from dictionaries to encyclopedias as well. Also my browser is Google Chrome so in effect I use Google everyday. Thank you for your question.

@stevetheduck1425 3 года назад

It's unlikely that an Upkeep would hold together at that speed; they were welded steel barrels. It was also found on the Operation Chastise attacks that the explosive filling was asymmetrical, leading to serious vibration when spinning the bomb up before release. It affected several crew's ability to aim.