How Britain's Historic Military Weapons Were Designed | The Genius Of Design | Spark
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- From the desperate improvisation of the Sten gun, turned out in huge numbers by British toy-makers, to the deadly elegance of the all-wood Mosquito fighter-bomber, described as `the finest piece of furniture ever made', we see how definitions of good design shift dramatically when national survival is at stake.
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If it wasn't for post-war British army engineers, the VW Beatle would have disappeared. The chassis was used during the war for the German Army small vehicles. Very few were delivered to civilians before and during the war.
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@@terencecallaghan8740
Actually, it’s totally true. Because of its association with the Nazi Party, the VW plant was scheduled for demolition, but a British Army officer, Ivan Hirst, realised it could be used to produce vehicles for the occupying forces, and persuaded the authorities to spare it.
The rest, as they say, is history.
British car manufacturers refused to consider a car with no separate chassis and OMG an air-cooled engine. They were not interested so the factory was built in Germany using engineers who were no longer building weapons aircraft, tanks, etc.
@David Elliott The factory was built before the war, and it only suffered some damage from allied bombing. Enough of the plant was serviceable, and the prewar VW plans and prototype VW beatle and its jigs were used to restart production for occupation vehicles for the allied forces. A VW military taxi service for allied occupation troops. It was a fairly large plant. The plant was offered to various car producers, even Ford and General Motors, but none wanted it at the time. I think Ford was offered two bites of the cherry to buy the factory but declined, and when they did want to buy, it was too late as VW had taken off
Proof of the world history:
Pay me enough: I’ll do anything.
Fuck the real world.
If you have any retort to this; pause. And think it over.
I will never be proved wrong.
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Britain left most of its field artillery in France & Belgium. The armourers had to produce new weapons very quickly. One of these was the incredibly successful 57mm Six Pounder anti tank gun. It was small and crewed by three men but extremely effective and used throughout the war. It wasn’t built to fight Tiger Tanks but after D-Day, one Six Pounder took out two Tigers. 90% of German tanks were Panzer III which the 6 pounder easily took apart.
Footnote: Britain invented the torpedo, jet engine, the computer to break German codes, the proximity fuse to bring down enemy aircraft etc etc.
Blogg Alot Plus radar, sonar, plastic surgery, Penicillin, the hovercraft, the internet, which was designed in 1960, to communicate with British forces worldwide, the largest bomb ever made, (non nuclear) the Hedghog anti-submarine mortar, deguissing to combat magnetic mines, the list goes on and on🧐🤓
yes and also forgot the tank!
@@bloggalot4718 The tank was covered in a previous post🤓
@@sprinter1832 Sonar was invented in France.
First US radar patent.
1934- A. H. TAYLOR ET AL SYSTEM FOR DETECTING OBJECTS BY RADIO Filed June 13, 1933 3 Sheets-Sheet l RECEIVER lM/D qwawa TIME AIRPLANE TRANSMITTER Nov. 27, 1934. A. H. TAYLOR ET AL 1,981,334
Yes, but the heading title stating British when we hardly get a mention, disgraceful.
Can never get enough of this sort of documentary - excellent. Thank you.
Ww2 planes are truly iconic. Masterpieces of the age.
have heard similar said about myself once or twice
@@pissiole5654 Narcissist?
@@mrdeathgaming1457 big time
'Both fascinating as well as fantastic!
'A classically conceived and executed audio-visual design product!
'Excellence without professing perfection - an unattainable human accomplishment!
'Proves the point of the production!!
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Very interesting, but I think that comparing a German Tiger tank design with the Soviet T34 is not quite fair.
The former was designed just before the war, as the elite tank, built in relatively small numbers, for a specific purpose, albeit at a high unit cost.
In its intended strike role, it was successful, provided it didn't break down or run of spares.
A more valid comparison with the T34, would be to take the Panzer 3 & 4 and the related Jagdpanzers ,
which together were built in 20+ times the number of Tigers.
Agreed. The Tigers prewar idea was as a breakthrough weapon. You do your attack, afterwards you'd have enough time to repair it until the next mission.
Whatever makes you think the Tiger was a pre-war design, keep smoking it!
@@jansix4287
The text books give Tiger 1 design starting 1938.
Probably the bulk of the design work would've been in 39, prototypes, factory etc 40, production probably starting 41, in the field in 42.
@@stephenarbon2227 And for obvious reasons weapon systems are dated by the year they appear on the battlefield. Calling it a pre-war design is crazy. Half of Europe was already occupied before anyone knew about the Tiger.
If one is to understand the most influential event of last century and the reasons for the outcome of WWII, this documentary is a necessity. Design, function, labor, manufacture, transport, usage…
Great history 👍
It’s a pity but Guy Gibson died in a flying accident in a Mosquito . But definitely ahead of its time . Beautiful air craft . As an Air Force kid in Malta I seen one crash . Losing night over Kalafrana hit the cliffs At Dalamara . ( Spelling May be wrong)
I was a draughtsman, most important tool is a paper and pencil to sketch out and share ideas.
He says punched and fabricated like it was an easy 'Thing'
I’ll punch that material for whatever price you deem reasonable.
Do you not get it?
I think he means stamped once you have the jig or mold it's just insert a peice of sheet metal press and stamped next .....
The Mosquito was not really "wood". It was composite, the strength came from its crosspky laminated construction. Think very early carbon fibre rather than flying piano
Pianos don’t use plywood. But furniture makers were more than capable of building the moulded plywood aircraft. The glue was the other huge innovation. A resin that went on wet but came out hard and solid (no innuendo intended). Germany tried but couldn’t make a suitable glue.
Even though this fab documentary does not quite describe it's title very much, it was still fascinating, and more about German, Russian and American design, and not about British, including it's invention of the tank.
And the Owen gun?
That was originally designed for special firing squads dealing with people who were not paying their taxes, hence the "owing gun", which bad habits allowed to slide to "owin' gun", and from there it slid to "owen gun", after a member of a firing squad called Owen.
Would I lie to you, baby?
Would I lie to you?
nice
Fascinating ideas but with advertising breaks every 45 seconds was impossible to get through
Get yourself "Adblock plus". I've not had any ads in years.
That was a big asset of them
The radar from uk
First US radar patent
1934- A. H. TAYLOR ET AL SYSTEM FOR DETECTING OBJECTS BY RADIO Filed June 13, 1933 3 Sheets-Sheet l RECEIVER lM/D qwawa TIME AIRPLANE TRANSMITTER Nov. 27, 1934. A. H. TAYLOR ET AL 1,981,334
@@nickdanger3802 Pity that US radar was US! and it never saw all those Japanese planes coming to bomb the 5H1T out of Pearl Harbour! LMFAO!
@Nick Danger The US had no radar till the Brits sent then a couple of Magnatrons to help build their own!
In this video "designers" actually "stylists" try to appropriate the achievements of genuine technical designers.
Cars were all over
To give credit to Germany for designing the Volkswagen and Tiger tank is a travesty. The designs were stolen from a Hungarian designer and the tank technology mainly came from Skoda. VW paid millions after the war for the theft of the beetle design
the initial success of the Wehrmacht was more in tactical innovation (combined arms and war of movement) than in the quality and design of the German weapons. France have superb tanks, the UK had just brought in the Spitfire and already had the Hurricane in service.The British Navy was the world's superpower, and was able to counter the U-boats in the war of the Atlantic. Germany would improve on their systems, but not in a fashion the could "knock out" the Allies. Once the race was on neither power could gain a decisive advantage; which was enough to win the war for the Allies.
The tank is from uk
Like the ford
Germany was thought to make substandard goods? I’ve never heard that, but I suppose it could of been the prevailing opinion during some period of history, but I know even way back in the day Germany was the only ones able to make high quality optical glass. I’m pretty sure other goods go into the only Germans or best made by German category. All good printing presses early on we’re German. I have a set of fine precision tools meant for drafting and measuring. I’ve had good fabric shears that came from Germany. The only scissors that could compare were two different Italian shears each clearly made for a specific purpose. I’m not sure how old a the shears are, but all three have a distinctly hand made pre assembly line sense to them. They are made to be repairable. They were each made to be the best at a very specific task.
Citroen
There they stole it
Marconi radio italy
With the bazooka they finish them
The tank was made in the first war by british
Veronica Logotheti It certainly was, and it was named by some wag in the British trenches, saying "it looked like his wifes water tank"🙃
@@sprinter1832 Nope! While the tank was being developed the British were concerned about security, so, because of the size of the shell of the "tank" and its construction they called it a "tank". Damned clever, those British...not! To put it mildly, the first batch of tanks sent to the front had reliability issues...
@@towmlvb3423 Bullsh*t
What did they invent
very interesting but hard to listen to due to the infernal background noise/music
Faraday was english
I could only watch 4min 32sec of this tomfoolery. Weapons are not about design, unless they are for appearance in a computerised game. Weapons are created by engineers, draftsmen, and every imaginable level of industrial worker. Only pathetic and dangerous wannabes desire weapons for their looks. The designs of the Spitfire and the Mustang are venerated because we associate them with the immense, iconic, success of them both. If they had failed operationally the shape of the Spitfire's wings and the Mustang's side view would not be venerated, but rather whatever opposite of "venerated" you choose.
Agree. Conflation engineering design with artistic design, which this video does, is ridiculous.
Interesting, but a misleading title.
I watch this and I think, Elon has a wartime mindset, Tesla is on a wartime footing.
Jaja
Ads galore every 5 min, uncomfortable viewing.
There are many other sits with the same doco's, with half of the ads and shorter.
The submarine from spain
Mussolini was the first fascist
And not against jews
OK you paint the Sten Gun as a British masterpiece but your researchers didn't spot its actually based on a German design and fires German ammunition.
AEG is still a brand these days, but its pretty crappy and low quality products.
They went internet
Veronica Logotheti Internet was invented by the British in 1960, it was designed to contact British forces, worldwide, in complete secrecy, it was a closed system that couldn't be breached, unlike radio waves!
@@sprinter1832 internet was invented by marconi
Radio
@@veronicalogotheti1162 Internet was invented by Britain in the 1960's, for our forces worldwide!, and Marconi had nothing to do with it!😭😢😥😰
Really only the Sten and Mosquito were mentioned in all of 46 minutes. FAIL
No word about Allied post-war deindustrialisation and the Axis post-war export success based on superior quality?
A magnificent aircraft, true. But I do not see many wooden aircraft at the airports today.
I do see a lot of jets, though, like the Me 262.
Just sayin'.
..... mostly built from modern composites (spearheaded by the Mosquito)
@@poruatokin No, mostly built from old fashioned aluminium. Or Duraluminium, as the inventors would call it.
RC Bits Grow up........just saying!🧐🤡
@@sprinter1832 Now that you have emptied your storage of intelligent comments I bid you farewell.
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NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH HOW THEY WERE DESIGNED. Only from the arty farty side of design.
Yes, and your BMWs have poor quality and poor longevity...
VW is winning, worldwide.
Sometimes using different names but in the end the money comes back to VW.
"It corners like a bedstead on castors".
@@20chocsaday First, much of the design of the VW was taken from the Tatra 570 from Czechoslovakia, from a car designed by Hans Ledwinka. Ferdinand Porsche was a skilled designer, but when Hitler saw the Tatra, he said that it was the car he wanted for German roads. And the Beetle was a derived from the Tatra.
-- Postwar BMW was built on the Nazi fortune of the Quandt family, which had built batteries for U-boats, using concentration-camp slave labor. Old man Quandt escaped Nuremberg prosecution by hiding in the British occupation sector and falling through the cracks. In the 1950s, he used his wartime fortune to buy BMW, and around 1960, he used his political connections to cut off Borgward, a quality car maker, from government assistance (which was fairly routine for postwar German industrialists). Carl Borgward was a car guy who made beautiful cars rivaling Mercedes Benz, using his surname as the brand, and had a couple of lower-cost lines, Goliath and Lloyd. At the time, BMW was producing mostly Isettas under license, an economy car designed by Italian carmaker Iso.
-- The Quandt family still holds control of BMW, a company built on war crimes and political corruption.
-- Look up images of Borgwards, especially the Borgward Isabella. They were beautiful and solid.
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Tanks? The argument that more cheap ranks are better than few quality machines is a logical fallacy. Four times as many tanks requires four times the fuel, maintenance, soldiers, which the Germans didn’t have.
Propaganda
We see today the russians tanks
What kind of joke is this
The British made it
The Tiger was a poor design so why show it? Why is this about British designs and then American designed chairs???
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