The Paris Gun: Germany's Infamous Artillery Weapon from World War I
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Number 7 yea
I got it. Definitely a great streaming service
Speaking of really big things that go boom. How about a look at the U.S. Army's WWII 914mm (36-inch) siege mortar "Little David"???
Can wait until we have "Big Bertha"
On the same genre, Sadam's big gun aimed at Israel in the '90s.
"Barrel droop" - It can happen to the best of us.
just use a little blue pill....errr brace
As I get older it takes longer to reload. What you are shooting at makes a difference also.
Happens more often when aiming at unattractive targets, and when not waiting between shots
Allegedly!:-) 😁 🖖
@@barrydysert2974 Legendary comment 🤣
Mega Project: The evacuation of the Soviet Union's war industry and work force to the Ural mountains, one of the largest migrations of population and material in human history.
most intense amazing effort few know about..
Tzastrovia Comrade
one more vote,in fact i will look for that right now.
@@xiro6 the Russians ripped up the rail road tracks for 3000 miles behind them and moved all industry eastward to far side of Soviet Union...
@@MitzvosGolem1 Even more they did it with a scorched earth policy, they burned down and destroyed absolutely everything else that could be of the least bit of use to the Germans. Structures, crops, everything.
@@boxlid214 yes Russia lost between 30-50 million people in ww2.
The amount of technology and engineering for that time is impressive. So many details and effort went into the gun it boggles the mind. All done without computers.
Ollie Fox and all a waste - they were failures
they had computers..... they were people. Computer used to mean a person that solves logic based problems. The machine adopted the name 'computer' when it replaced the people that used to do the computations.
that cannon was a piece of work
I read somewhere that the range on this gun was so long that they had to take into account the Coriolis effect caused by the rotation of the Earth, which made the shells deflect to the west of where they were aiming. Tricky thing to do in an age before computers, or even calculators...
@James Harmer
RE: "Tricky thing to do in an age before computers, or even calculators..."
Artillerymen have used pre-calculated ballistics tables for at least a century. By the World War I era they did have mechanical calculators.
References:
(1) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_table
(2) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_calculator
They did have to take that into effect. Those shells spent a flight time of 3 minutes in a parabola
@@dualtronix4438 I suppose when you are aiming at an entire city, as long as you hit somewhere in the middle of town, that would be good enough. Maybe they had spies to tell them where the shells were landing, or maybe they just read the papers.
@@jamesharmer9293 The French investigated whether there were German spotters in Paris and never found any. As far as newspapers go, the censors put a gag order on them. Interesting that in WW2, the British had the newspapers print false stories, augmented by the XX (Double Cross) Program of turned German agents who were captured and given a choice they couldn't refuse to either send carefully concocted stories to Berlin or die, about where they were landing. The Germans corrected their aim and they began hitting carefully selected areas of no particular importance. Remember, the British only LOOK stupid.
@@colbeausabre8842 I should know. I am British.
Mega Projects topic suggestion: The Greenbank Telescope (The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope in Greenbank, West Virginia in the USA)
Yes please
Agreed. Greenbank should be covered. Especially since we have lost Arecibo.
Simonception: one week ago: "we already covered the paris gun on this channel..." today: the paris gun
I know I was thinking how the hell did I miss it?
He might have filmed this one first
Ahhh yes, when things are recorded in a different order (usually happens if a sponsor approves something particularly fast or slow).
Every channel seems to do something similar. Every channel I've watched either changes channel names after x amount of time. Or they redo every episode theyve made after a year or so. Eckharts ladder for certain has done this I wanna say over 3 cycles of remakes?
‘Nooo you can’t just circumvent the front lines!’
“Haha Wilhelm go brr”
You can't, but you sure can go over it.
one shell every 15 min isn't quite "brr"
but get what you meant
@@DeHerg A shell landing in your city every 15 minutes for 5 months would suck
Is this gun big enough sir?
More.
Ok, And now?
More!
This is madness!
MORE!!!!
Ok...MOAB is here. Enough?
@@deemariedubois4916 MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@deemariedubois4916 01001101 01001111 01010010 01000101 00100001 00100001 00100001
This gun needs more gun
@No One's Innocent People would just turn it to 12 then lol
One of the most intresting things about the paris gun is, that thanks to the earth rotation and the long time the bulltets fly, they had to hold up for paris, as it was a moving target.
@derrimperator I am glad to see someone else thought to comment on this.
Long (relatively speaking) flight time + the Earth's rotation does grant a benefit in distance covered when you are firing from East to West as the Germans were doing. If you could have 10 minutes of flight time, that would allow the shell to cover, roughly, an "extra" 100 miles at Paris' latitude. Please keep in mind that I am not factoring in atmospheric density, temperature, humidity and the speed & direction of winds aloft.
Firing from West to East, however, the shell wouldn't get any "extra" distance beyond what you'd expect from the normal mass & gunpowder calculations since it already has the inertia of the planet's rotation at the time it is fired.
Consider the Coriolis effect. It could also cause some deviation in the trajectory.
Army: "Shooting civilians is easy, they don't shoot back"
Civilians: "And I took that personally."
The Parisian didn't realize they were being shelled at first, since they were miles from the front lines. They thought a gas pipe exploded.
1:40 - Chapter 1 - The paris gun
3:20 - Chapter 2 - Big guns
5:10 - Mid roll ads
6:35 - Chapter 3 - Development
8:45 - Chapter 4 - Ammunition
10:55 - Chapter 5 - Mountings
11:30 - Chapter 6 - In action
13:45 - Chapter 7 - A psychological gun
5:06 you can tell that as a Brit Simon is enjoying the prospect of shelling Paris just a little bit too much.
I've had Magellan TV for a while. And there are not new documentaries every week. It's had the same history documentaries with nothing new since I got it about a year ago
Thanks for warning me
@@khaccanhle1930 no problem lol. I mean maybe it has new stuff but it's not history stuff. Which is why I got it.
Not all hero’s wear capes
Dambusters - Operation Chastise and the bouncing bombs would be a fantastic Megaprojects
Shelling at 15 minute intervals has the maximum psychological effect on its victims. Frequent enough to make you worry that you're next. Not so often that you get mentally numbed and accept your fate.
Luckily, if you start this video as soon as you hear the boom, you'll have just enough time to finish it before the next one.
@megaprojects for some reason it bothers me that the door in the background is always open...... but that is just me. Keep up the good work Simon and the rest of the crew
Krupp now makes household appliances . These Big Guns were a waste of time and steel , They were a feat of engineering and manufacturing .
Didn't they always do household appliances?
And don't they still do weapons today as well?
@@DiabloDBS yes they still do both as far as I know.
It did it's job it terroristized Paris
Opa Pierce. The Germans have always had a fascination with militarily useless "Terror Weapons" that were supposed to cause enemy morale to collapse. The son of the Paris Gun the K12E (longer ranged than the Paris Gun to put the nasty sailors in their place) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_cm_K_12_(E) and the spiritual grandchildren, the V1 and V2 were similarly useless terror weapons. (the V2 took as much effort to build and launch as a medium bomber with the equivalent of ONE 2200 pound bomb, and you threw away the "bomber" in the process. Ballistic missiles didn't make economic and military sense until the nuclear weapons were developed in the 1950's that were small enough to be carried by them. And, BTW, the V2 was horribly inaccurate with a 4.5 KM CEP. Ballistic missiles didn't make economic and military sense until the nuclear weapons were developed in the 1950's that were small enough to be carried by them.. "The V-2 consumed a third of Germany's fuel alcohol production and major portions of other critical technologies - to distil the fuel alcohol for one V-2 launch required 30 tonnes of potatoes at a time when food was becoming scarce. Due to a lack of explosives, some warheads were simply filled in with concrete, using the kinetic energy alone for destruction, and sometimes the warhead contained photographic propaganda of German citizens who had died in Allied bombings"
Thanks
Hi Simon ;~) ty for your channels! when you are disabled and mostly bed ridden, educational videos make it easier to ignore the pain and get through the day. ty again for the honorable mention to Queen Budica ;~)
Very good video once again, did a few shells fired by a similar (or the same) weapon hit the south coast of England, I seem to recall hearing about this happening.
Thanks for this most interesting series.
I was a gunner on a 155m m198 howitzer in Iraq in 03 it could shoot 18 miles and hit within a 10 meters of the target with modern technology. Greatest adrenaline rush of my life. I couldn’t imagine shooting a gun that big insane!!!
You'd think that the skeletons of the soldiers firing it would turn to dust. And what about the sound?!
Best part is that is still sub-battleship diameter shells
Paris gun- 9.3"/233mm gun
Treaty compliant cruiser- 8"/203.2mm gun
Treaty battleship- up to 16"/406.4mm
Yamato battleship- 18"/457.2mm
One battleship can have 6-12 of these monsters making any land based artillery look like a common peasant
Always appreciate your videos, thanks to you and the crew.
Simon thanks for your time and work also thanks for posting.......
German soldiers:We can't get to Paris yet! How are we supposed to drop shells on it
German High command:Hm L O N G G U N
Thank you for this and all of your great videos!
"Now we start shelling the city of lights in just a moment!" 5:07
I am German and I approve this message :-D
Sorry, esp. to my fellow Frenchman, for my dark Humor, but I couldn't resist :-D
I could listen to you all day, watch all day. Please Simon, would you make longer Videos with regards to WWII logistics
Great presentation Simon!
Finally! Thank you, Simon.
There was a great movie called The Doomsday Gun with Frank Langella who played Canadian artillery designer Gerald Bull. He was inspired by the Paris Gun to build a modern version for the Iraqis.
I always get so pumped for the ad-reads, and then I remember that this is not a Business Blaze video😂
Great content as always Simon & team. Thank you for the many hours of entertainment you chaps provide.
Last time I was this early, Simon still had an afro.
Wait... he had an afro?
@@micahbeers8904 Oh yeah. It was HUGE. Like Jackson-5 mid 70s huge....
Youre lying...
Theres no way
@@alexanderwelshwelsh9931 No beard, either. Just chops and a huge walrus mustache....
hahaha , you win this months , last time i was this early .....
I’m surprised each time he DOESNT announce a new YT channel.
“Hey if you enjoyed this video then you might enjoy our new channel...”
good series. make more pls
Can't even express the joy I feel watching your new videos, Simon. Love your work!!
Literally choked on my coffee when Simon said "Now we'll start shelling the City of Lights in just a moment, don't worry..." 🤣
Simon, please do a megaproject on the origins, demise, and recovery of the Vasa, Sweden's greatest warship.
I watched this after A Business Blaze video. High octane Simon vs barely alert Simon...
How fun!
Stupidly large guns may be a bad idea, but it's hard to deny they are pretty damn cool.
When the Paris Gun fired, the other artillery in the vicinity would open up in a coordinated salvo to disguise it.
yes he said that
@@mikepette4422 Oh..I must've missed it.
I had a Krupp crane excellent quality.
Thyssen Krupp make s elevator s and industrial equipment.
Manitowoc Grove owns Krupp since 1996.
Hopefully they don't use slave labor like they did on WWII
@@donise8406 true...at least today Germany building construction Equipment and a good tolerant peaceful country unlike nazi creeps...
Shalom
Bloody hell you cover interesting things. Thanks folks!
There ws no Sundy service' on 29 March 1918 since it was Friday. It was, however, Good Friday.
Does it fire 600 rounds a second?
Behind the Bastards has an excellent episode on this Krupp character
When your gun has a suspension bridge to hold it up, you know you've gone too large lol
"Barrel Droop"
Aaaaand, I'm suddenly a child again.
Good video 👍
Find yourself someone who looks at you the same way Simon looks at massive weapon mega projects
When a gun is so big it needs its own suspension bridge on the barrel....
Do a Side projects (or megaprojects) on MK Ultra
He did an xplrd on it
@@PeterJohnson1289 if he did I can't find it.
No he didnt.
@@NAC_Exec he did. Go to the xplrd channel, it is titled: Project Mkultra, the CIAs attempt at psychedelic mind control
Hey Canada! Help a fellow canadian broaden the worlds knowledge of Canada and it's people! The Rideau Canal and river system for mega/side projects and Francis Pegahmagabow for biographics! Peggy is the most skilled sniper of the Great War!
nah pass on the rideau canal i think canada has had enough of things from ottawa but yeah thumbs up for Francis Pegahmagabow although there are several videos about him I say more the better
@@mikepette4422 really? I love the Rideau... grew up there, anyway have a great day!
Love your videos just a suggestion make video about suckoi 30 and f 22
Very cool. Any chance you can do a video on the Karl Gerät?
Simon any chance a video on the Appalachian trail would be possible on one of the channels?
This was the most awaited video of the channel 🤩😭
It’s a tie between this and the Tsar Bomba 😬
One of my German co-workers told me that Krupp hid the barrels of the Paris Gun in the smokestacks of Krupp Iron Works, but had no explanation as to how it was placed there.
Anyone have a link to that MRE-sourcing series?
Plug "steve1989" into the search bar and prepare to lose hours of your life.
Very good
Can you do a video about the power grid?
Ever done a video about the making of the road from the lower 48 states to Alaska?
I think the barrel extended more like 7 mm with each shot, didn't it? I mean, with 7 cm, you have almost a meter at 14 shots.
thats more like it... see this is why metric sucks
@@mikepette4422 Come on. Almost all the world uses it. It has much smaller units so it's easier to differenciate, say, heights. 6'6'' is in metric 200 centimeters or 2 Meters or, if you like, 2000 millimeters.
@@0ldFrittenfett how many people do you know that are exactly 200cm though 🤣
Much easier to say 5 9, 5 10
@@ChibabaDave Well, we just say "I'm 183 Centimeters high". See? then I can calculate very easily that this Person is 14 Centimeters taller than me.
Do a side projects on the Chrysler T-8 tank, and its Soviet counterpart.
It's weird to think how much crazier the world was just 100 years ago.
Thank You!!! Get so tired of people saying that the world is spinning out of control like they think it used to be like Little House on The Prairie tv show... Theres less war, less famine, less genocide less stonings, less plagues and pandemics currently then at any other time in history and thats with a current population of 9 BILLION people on Earth.. People need to read a history book occasionally
@@WKRP187 The world population is about 7.9 billion people not 9 billion.
@@eamonhoschette1208 Thanks for the correction since it changes absolutely nothing in my comment... I meant to hit 8 which is close enough for 99.99999% of Earth's population but you would've probably still had to correct me to feel better about yourself somehow 🙄👍
@@WKRP187 Well fuck me for trying to help someone not look like an idiot.
@@eamonhoschette1208 1.1bill have never written back to their congressman.
So where's the series on MREs? Got to watch it!
Simon please do the Mecca Clock Tower!
the Aztec capital built in the middle of a lake might be a good mega project
Tenochtitlan? He did a video on geographics about it
@@cattibingo Yeah
not sure what channel it would fit on but a theoretical mega project would be the EVE online Keepstar
The Paris Gun was not a tactical or strategic weapon. It was a terror weapon.
I have been to many cities in my life. None do I hate more than Paris. Where can I get a t-shirt of this gun?
Wooargh There's nothing wrong with Paris. It's the insufferable Parisians. As Lucius Beebe was told, "Never strike a Frenchman with your hand, use your cane"
damn it , Simon mentioned MRE's .. i may have to go down that you-tube rabbit hole later
*Nice*
@@a2d do I smell some FRH
You know how many T 55 main battle tanks you could build with the steel used to build the Paris Gun?....... I don't either but I bet a Megaproject video on the most produced tank of all time would know ; ).
Big gun day perfectly describes my watch pattern today, well played sir
Have you done one on Arecibo?
Please do a video about the Gateway Arch National Park and monument in downtown St. Louis.
All I know is I want one. Don't worry about the crew, Hell I'll be so excited , I will crew it my self.
Now I know where the air cannon designs come from on the pumpkin chunkin guns
whats the very quiet background music playing through out the video around 9mins to 9:30ish? its the same as a piece of music I cant find that was used by a channel called Ask clauswitz in a video called "Why do we fight"
Try... History by Jincheng Zhang
@@terza98 thank you very much :)
Imagine if the german thinking about how to make artillery move by giving an engine to it and giving it armor so the person that operate it didn't die. Essentially just a tank, but in keep in mind that tank is not present until in the later stage of the war and its because of the british made it, they named it tanks so it wouldn't heard that scary in the ear of german spy, because in that day and age tank is refered to water tank. Just imagine if the german think about tank first rathee that the paris gun, its kinda strect but germany win the great war is a posibilty, as well if the US official language change from English to German, because at the time, German is one of major language in the country
Are you saying the US would swap to german if we lost the great war? Am i reading this correctly?
Bruh you good?
@@nicktaylor897 who me? I'm just curious lol
@@ihaztehSNIPAH The only reason it wouldn't happen is because of the anti-german sentiment that the west had cultivated leading up to the war.
USA still has no official language anyway. I don't think German would've seen such a massive adoption though, if anything, I think it would be hated even more.
Looking at the A7V, I don't think that's much of an issue. Besides, Germany doesn't have the same history with America that Britain does, so I don't think there'd be a huge difference. Even if America had chosen to use German as their unofficial common language, they still have a closer history with Britain that Germany can't fulfill. So regardless, I'd say that the war would have been over faster if America spoke German as you'd have German fluent British allies with a tremendous industrial potential waiting ring side.
Besides even if Germany first developed an armored assault vehicle, which the early tanks were, it was the French Renault FT tank that became the template for the modern tank; hull with a driver and a rotating turret with a main higher caliber gun mounted in it.
Again, regardless of who developed it first, the course of history of the tank doesn't revolve around who built it first. It roots back to the Renault FT, who probably would have built it regardless who won WWI. Germany doesn't have the relationship with America that Britain has. The language doesn't matter in the end. The only difference would be that we'd be calling them Panzerkampfwagens and Panzers instead of just Tanks.
"Having a big gun day" is actually just called tuesday in America
It fits Germany more it seems
What large calibre naval gun had a barrel life of 800 rounds?
The best I can find is the British 15"/42 mk.1 with 335 rounds, but most seem to be around 200 rounds.
There is a claimed 400 rounds by the 12" 1907 pattern gun from Russia, but their claimed figures for barrel life tend to be ridiculously optimistic (in some cases more than 3x what should be possible with the materials and tech they were using, i.e. no chrome plating, lower quality steel etc.).
Mega Project idea: The "Mining and Chemical Combine" in Zheleznogorsk, Russia. A Plutonium production plant. The entire facility was built 200 meters into the mountain, and contains 3 Nuclear Reactors (Basically the same design as РБМК, like in Chernobyl),1 АД and 2 АДЭ (АДЭ-2 provided power and heating to the workers city, Zheleznogorsk). The facility has its own railway and electric locomotive.
Now the Plutonium production is stopped (since 95'), and the reactors were shut down. Now they produce MOX fuel for fast liquid metal Reactors (for now, БН-800).
Topic suggestion : Mir Space Station
Topic suggestions: the Thrust Ssc
You might add in the description that one reason we know about the specifics of the Paris Gun is because Gerald Bull (of the Iraqi Supergun) wrote a book about it. That book itself is long out of pring, and goes for hundreds of dollars last I looked, but think a lot of what we know about the Paris gun comes from it.
got the book as bull was an alumni and gave a lecture on his HARP project
The book “Paris kanonen” by Gerald bull is the definitive work on the Paris gun an includes almost all known photos and technical information on the gun.
"what if we shot a shell in the fucking stratosphere to hit the capital of France"
"...you are a genious"
Do a megaprojects on all your youtube channels
what was the kinetic impact like?
For a gun that wasn't very good it sure killed a bunch of people.
it killed less then one person for each shell fired, thats not good
@@krald8421 but that could be a problem with aim and ammunition. It did kill people so it did work.
@@krald8421 if every shell fired in WWI had killed 1 person, Europe would have been depopulated
@@BS-ne5cr Did it cause French morale to collapse and for the country to surrender? No. FAILURE
@@EurojuegosBsAsYes, but the claim it "killed a lot of people" is just plain ludicrous.
You should make a video about battleship's biggest guns
Do megaproject on Project Philadelphia please. It's very interesting
The most enjoyment came when you said it was a complicated pain in the ass to use, I laughed my ass off.
Signed up for Magellan
In the phallic world of artillery I suspect that in addition to bore wear, Krupp & K. Willy also concerned about "shrinkage".
Mega projects topic suggestion: The royal arsenal in woolwich.
$900 , that's how much his shirt is worth lol