The planes that were involved in The Hunt for the Bismarck were outdated, naturally that would be a problem, but his AA equipment was not tuned for the inferior speed of the Swordfish, so shots would likely miss. I am pretty sure that the ammunition Bismarck had wasn't appropriate for the material of the aircraft either.
For the Airplanes. There were 9 "Swordfish" type aircraft and only one hit. They took off from aircraft carrier "HMS Victorious". The type of aircraft had the advantage that they could start from smaller aircraft carriers. Not every nation had big carriers!
@@charlienordstrom5062 The HMS Ark Royal was also in the hunt. But he asked about the 9 Bombers in the song. The 9 came from the HMS Victorious. HMS Ark Royal was sended 15 bombers and 1 of the 15 made the critical hit!
Also, the Swordfish aircraft had the ability to fly so slowly that the German and Italian anti-aircraft gun predictors, to enable accurate deflection shooting against moving targets, could not adjust to such a low speed!.... and some of the AA gunners did not believe the English would use biplanes and that they could fly so slowly. This was before the US became involved in WW2.
@@jacksmith-vs4ct It's true. The Swordfish was a very outdated plane by the time they got involved with the fight. The Germans had developed a kind of computer that would allow them to predict where a plane would go, and this directed their anti aircraft. Problem was the computer was calibrated to fast flying planes of the day, and not something like the slow swordfish planes.
They took Primo Victoria (the boat) out to the coordinates where the wreck lays on the ocean floor, froze there off, the captain of Primo Victoria is a descendent of a Bismarck crew member that survived the sinking of Europe's largest battleship.
You can thank Wargaming for how great this MV turned out. Specifically the team that makes World of Warships. They've made some pretty great cinematic videos for their game too and they've got full digital models of many historic warships. And to answer your question, the hunt for Bismarck took place during WWII. At the time it was the biggest and most advanced battleship in the world which is why the Allies feared it so, and sent everything they had within range to hunt it down the moment it made a break for the Atlantic.
The "Bismarck" , and his sister ship "Tirpitz", were the 2 largest battleships ever built in Europe (250 meters long, 36 meters wide, and displacing more than 50.000 tones) and they were the pride of the kriegsmarine (Germany's militari navy) during ww2. The "Bismarck" set sail in May 1941 to reach the Atlantic and destroy merchant convoys, but he was intercepted by the British and during a brief fight, destroyed the former flagship of the British fleet and pride of the Royal Navy, the worldwide famous battlecruiser "Hood", by penetrating her armor and detonating her aft main ammunition magazine and killing all 1400 members of her crew except for 3 men, and heavily damaged the battleship "Prince of Wales". This enraged the prime minister Winston Churcil who ordered all his ships in the Atlantic to abandon their operations and destroy the Bismarck. In total more than 40 ships participated to the hunt, making it the biggest naval hunt in history. Meanwhile Bismarck, who had received a hit during the first battle, was leaking fuel and was trying to reach the French port of Saint Nazaire, in occupied France, for repair. After 3 days of playing cat and mouse with the British, Bismarck was attacked by airplanes launched from the aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" and hit by a torpedo in the stern, which jammed his rudders during evasive manuvers, meaning that he was forced to sail in circles, just a few miles away from reaching air cover. In the end battleships "King George V" and "Rodney", along side the heavy cruisers "Norfolk" and "Dorsedshire" fought the already doomed battleship and, during the following 90 minutes completely destroyed it. However, despite having all his guns destroyed, and having received more than 400 hits (out of the 2800 shells that the British had fired at it) his armor was still mostly intact and the ship was still afloat. So the british launched another 4 torpedoes and he disappeared beneath the waves. After inspection of the wreck however it had been discovered that the torpedoes did no significant damage thanks to the battleship's extensive underwater protection, and that Bismarck had probably been scuttled by his crew (although it should be noted that many historians believe that it would have eventually sunk due to the damage received). Of the 2200 men that served on it only 114 survived
I like to think of this video as the band sailing out and performing a summoning ritual, allowing Bismarck and his foes to return to the surface once more to battle.
You are right about your observation with the biplanes. Swordfish torpedo bombers were very outdated at the time but this happened pretty early on in the war
and were so slow that they didnt lose a single one because Bismarck's AA guns were designed for faster more modern planes and couldnt accurately shoot at them. LOL
To answer your question on why the aircrafts look like they're from World War 1 it's because during the 1930s and early stages of World War 2 torpedo technology wasn't advance and needed to be dropped close to the target and aimed accurately, and from low-level because the delicate mechanisms of the torpedo wouldn’t work if it hit the water falling too fast and a Biplane was an ideal plane for torpedo attacks due to its low speed.
There is a rumor that the "swinging legs" visible for a moment as the band climbs the stairs belong to Floor Jansen, Hannes' wife and singer for Nightwish.
The cinematography used is the trailer for the Bismarck and H.M.S Hood for a game called World of Warships. Sabaton do allot of collaborations with the developers of games called "War Thunder" and "World of Warships" and what an absolutely amazing Band.
As it stands, some interesting things come out about Bismarck. First, his 15" guns, when fired full broadside, knocked out his own radar. Second, the Bismarck had issues dealing with aircraft. His anti-air guns (AA) could not elevate high enough to be effective, when the Swordfish torpedo-bombers came after Bismarck. Third, about the aircraft. Not only were the airplanes from World War I, most nations were hesitant to spend money on airpower, even after the war began. Most military leaders thought World War II would be another war of trench warfare; the German blitzkrieg, "lightning war," put an end to that thought. It wasn't until 1941 that planes began being developed that resembled what we know, such as the Spitfire II (UK), the P-40 Warhawk, P-47 Thunderbolt, and the P-38 Lightning (US), the Yak-3 (Russia), the A6M "Zero" fighter of Japan, and finally, the BF-109 and BF-110 of the German Luftwaffe. Most early planes were still of World War I vintage, such as the PO-2 trainer planes given to the 588th Night Bombing Regiment of the Soviet Air Forces, the "Night Witches," which was a single-engine fighter that was a cloth and wood biplane, the same as the Swordfish torpedo-bombers you see here.
for context: this song is about the warship Bismarck, the pride of the German navy during WW2, it had a sister ship the Tirpitz, that ship was sunk off the coast of Norway where it rests to this day as a protected wargrave. the Bismarck was meant to be great 'equaliser' for Germany at sea and their primary weapon to disrupt the American trade ships supplying Britain with much needed food and munitions in order to starve the British out and force a surrender of the last nation not to succumb to the Nazi warmachine, due to how prized the ship was, the commanders of the German navy sent this ship out without informing Hitler of what they were doing for fear of retribution from him, it was supposed to travel up the eastern side of Britain and loop around Scotland through the straight between Scotland and Iceland, where it would then take up routes throughout the north Atlantic sinking as many shipping runs as possible between the UK and the US. thanks to Norway they provided intel that a massive German ship was moving into the North Sea off the British coast, so it was ordered to be followed, the Royal Navy sent the pride of the fleet the HMS Hood along with a few other ships to intercept this German ship and its escort the Prince Eugen, the Bismarck tried to evade the Royal Navy ships but ended up being forced into engagement, through a lucky shot it hit the HMS hood in the primary munitions chamber of the vessel and instantly destroyed the flagship of Britain, killing almost all onboard save for a handful of survivors, the HMS prince of wales fired on the Bismarck but also took damage and was forced to pull back out of combat lest she also be sunk. it was determined that the Bismarck was not to escape and was to be destroyed by any means necessary, so the Royal Navy chased the Bismarck which was damaged by an extremely lucky strike by a Swordfish torpedo to the rudder, and while this didn't cripple the ship, it forced it into a situation where it could not turn properly and was restricted in what max speed it could achieve meaning that as time went on it became impossible to outrun the pursuing British fleet, as the Bismarck tried to reach France (which had already been overrun by the German army at this point) in order to signal for the German air force to provide air support to allow the Bismarck to get into a dock to get repaired it became apparent however that they would have to stand and fight, and after a lucky shot from the British fleet, hitting the command deck of the Bismarck killing any who were in there at the time, command of the ship fell to Ernst Lindemann who called for the ship to be scuttled and all remaining hands to abandon ship, in the music video it is Ernst Lindemann shown carving the co-ordinates of approximately where the Bismarck would sink. as far as the music video is concerned it is a collaboration between the game development company 'wargaming' famous for their games 'world of warships' and 'world of tanks', hence why all the ships shown are both historically accurate as well as the CGI being extremely high quality. the older guy who is captaining the fishing boat that the band is playing on is the real life son of the soldier that was given the compass pocketwatch by Admiral Ernst Lindemann on the Bismarck, and the one used in the music video is just a prop but he does in fact own the original still. it should also be noted that the wreck of the Bismarck was found by the same person who found the wreck of the RMS Titanic, Robert Ballard, and to this day the actual location remains secret to protect it as a wargrave to those who died there, the true location known to very few people.
This is ww2 in 1941 bismarck after firing it's fifth salvo at hms hood it had a magazine explosion and sunk in 3 minutes with 1,915 out of the 1,918 going down with the ship.
"Primo Victoria" is not just the name of their boat in this clip but another one of their songs! Joakim was probably bashing his leg to make sure it was still there! Despite the fire-pots aboard the boat, the guys nearly froze making this clip!
The swordfish torpedo bombers had some advantages... it's low speed made for a more stable platform for dropping torpedoes which at the time really needed to be dropped in a narrow window of altitudes and speed. America didn't go that route because they had lots of money and resources to build things like the Avenger torpedo bomber. The other major advantage was actually quite interesting. Anti-aircraft weaponry was usually equipped with explosive shells instead of lead bullets or penetrators. The idea is that you can deal a lot more damage to aircraft with shrapnel than the occasional bullet passing through. The Swordfish however had a hull made primarily of textiles instead of metal so the anti-aircraft bullets would go right through them harmlessly. Aircraft like that don't care if there's a few tiny holes in it, it will still fly. This allowed the aircraft to return to base without any losses.
You must listen to Tommy Johansson, the one doing the guitarsolo, supervoice, you will thank me I promise!! He has his own channel on youtube where he sings different covers, and is also singer in his own band Majestica. The covers you should listen to first ( my favorites) is *you raise me up *shes gone *the winner takes it all And a lot more..
Even the small older Swordfishplanes are accurate . Since the english used them to go real low and somewhat under the radar and the smaller units were also harder to hit . (+what the other advantages ASDrake mentions here below)
There were a lot of weapons, ships, planes, etc. that saw action in WW1 were used again during WW2. Many of the battleships from all over were used during WW1. Of course, all were overhauled and modernized over time. In between the World Wars, the Interwar Period, there were treaties that limit the construction of new battleships and all navies retained many of their older vessels to compensate. Only a handful of new-gen battleships partook in WW2. Germany's Kreigsmarine's Scharnhorst-class and Bismarck-class. Italy's Regia Marina's Vittorio Veneto-class. The Imperial Japanese Navy's Yamato-class. The British Royal Navy's King George V-class. And the US Navy's North Carolina-class, South Dakota-class, and Iowa-class. Fun fact. The Iowa-class battleships were the only class of battleships in all of the world to be brought back on several occasions up until the 90's.
I recommended this video to you guys some years ago with other things from Sweden that was worth to watch. This as the most amazing video created do to effects and things like it.
The british was a bit behind at this time so the planes they were using "swordfish" was from first worldwar and used as torpedo bombers, but replace shortly after this.
The guns on the Bismarck was so powerful that it knocked their radar out of whack. And the boat wasn't even designed to fight by planes and were designed to fight Pikes towards that Pie plays ever designed to fight modern Fighters they weren't able to lower their guns locked low enough to knock the swordfishes out of the sky
i listen to sabaton for about 17 years now, and i have to say, i actually learned more from sabaton about our history then from school, cause you don't get all the dirty details in school. They just present us as heros in their wars, but not how it actually was.
That's the irony of history, that what was then the most modern warship was so badly damaged at the rudder by WWI planes that she was no longer able to escape her pursuers.
this was made and produced by a small video game company they made the game world of warships the song primo victoria is made by the same compay world of tanks they even gave sabaton a premium tank for anyone to play
The Swordfish, the plane depicted had a unique history, it wasn't a WW1 aircraft, it was introduced in 1936, and was in use to the end of the war. It could carry a 1760 lbs torpedo, or a 1500 lbs. mine or that much in bombs. It had a range of over 500 miles and performance wise it beat the Devastator that the Americans started the war with. Which was a monoplane. It also mounted radar so it could perform night attacks. It looked primitive, but really wasn't. They teamed up with World of Warships for the effects.
here just a bit more information The "Bismarck" , and his sister ship "Tirpitz", were the 2 largest battleships ever built in Europe (250 meters long, 36 meters wide, and displacing more than 50.000 tones) and they were the pride of the kriegsmarine (Germany's militari navy) during Ww2. The "Bismarck" set sail in May 1941 to reach the Atlantic and destroy merchant convoys, but he was intercepted by the British and during a brief fight, destroyed the former flagship of the British fleet and pride of the Royal Navy, the worldwide famous battlecruiser "Hood", by penetrating her armor and detonating her aft main ammunition magazine and killing all 1400 members of her crew except for 3 men, and heavily damaged the battleship "Prince of Wales". This enraged the prime minister Winston Churcil who ordered all his ships in the Atlantic to abandon their operations and destroy the Bismarck. In total more than 40 ships participated to the hunt, making it the biggest naval hunt in history. Meanwhile Bismarck, who had received a hit during the first battle, was leaking fuel and was trying to reach the French port of Saint Nazaire, in occupied France, for repair. After 3 days of playing cat and mouse with the British, Bismarck was attacked by airplanes launched from the aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" and hit by a torpedo in the stern, which jammed his rudders during evasive manuvers, meaning that he was forced to sail in circles, just a few miles away from reaching air cover. In the end battleships "King George V" and "Rodney", along side the heavy cruisers "Norfolk" and "Dorsedshire" fought the already doomed battleship and, during the following 90 minutes completely destroyed it. However, despite having all his guns destroyed, and having received more than 400 hits (out of the 2800 shells that the British had fired at it) his armor was still mostly intact and the ship was still afloat. So the british launched another 4 torpedoes and he disappeared beneath the waves. After inspection of the wreck however it had been discovered that the torpedoes did no significant damage thanks to the battleship's excellent armor, and that Bismarck had been scuttled by his crew (although it should be noted that many historians believe that it would have eventually sunk due to the damage received). Of the 2200 men that served on it, only 114 survived. Fun fact; during the annual Sabaton Christmas Cruise in 2019, due to the popularity of the song, the band was given permission by the German government and navy to lay a wreath where the cruise crossed one of Bismarck's routes.
the planes (swordfish) were indeed from ww1, which shows how desperate the british navy was to sink the Bismark, after it sank the pride of the royal navy, the HMS Hood
Great reaction (as always I might add) . Sabaton is really really good (but I'm biased because i grew up just 40 km from their origin in Falun, Sweden)😂 But first I just wanted to mention another suggeted artist (was suggested when you did Tongi's version of "The winner takes it all") that also is a great "easter egg" within Sabaton: Tommy Johannsson, the blond guitarist. He has his own band Majestica (where he sings, write the music and play guitar) and does covers on YT (he has done a very good version of "the winner takes it all " ..but their are mamy mote ..ususally "Shes gone " is suggested for first reaction to his covers). Tommy also (besides guitar) plays bass, keyboard, drums, ..I suggest you look him up to see the deptht of the talent that lives in Sabaton (at hellfest 2019 Joakim lost his vocie and the guritarists (Tommy and Chris) had to jump in (with a couple of hours notice) and sing lead vocal for the entire show - from printed lyrics since they never had done/rehearsed the lead vocals parts before. You also need to check some official live stuff because Sabaton take their history serious but they are also so good live. Having lots of fun between themselves but also with the audience . You can actually watch the same song ..first offical music video, then animated version and then live and find them to all have a place ..not being redundant.
The planes were a type of air craft that would drop torpedos in the ocean to hit ships. There were more modern planes of course but becouse of the type explosive and how it was delivered ww1 related air crafts where used instead of planes like the Grumman f6f hell cat, and the f4u corsair
hey guys, believe it or not those planes were the ACTUAL type they used in the 2nd world war, in that situation at least. First of all though it was the British navy, they launched them from one of there early aircraft carriers, one that was "old" and only carried swordfish biplane torpedo bombers, they had to approach at wave Hight to avoid the anti-aircraft guns from the Bismarck they were so slow, but could maintain lift at much lower speeds allowing for more accurate targeting. the torpedo bombers were able to hit one of her engines causing the ship to be trapped in a turn, making it an easy target for the fleet.
the young man and the old man tied together by the watch. Also the drummer for sabaton is married to Floor Jansen of Nightwish-enjoy sabaton-the 1916 is a real tear jerker.
The old Planes where the "Joker" for the British, they where so slow that the modern german Anti Aircraft guns had difficulties to keep target and shoot em
FYI: the Japanese had the world's largest naval battleship, the YOMAMOTO; SHE WAS DEFEATED BY AMERICAN PLANES, AS THE EMPIRE OF JAPAN ATTEMPTED TO BEACH HER, TO MAKE HER A BEACHED BATTERY. THEN THERE WAS THE SISTER SHIP OF THE USS Missouri, the MIGHTY MO, WHICH HAD EARNED 19 BATTLE STARS, THE USS NEW JERSEY; 883 FEET. BB62; 16 INCH GUNS! A CARTRIDGE AS LONG AS A TOYOTA PICKUP TRUCK!! SHE WAS RETIRED AFTER THE PERDIAN GULF WAR, IN THE 1990S!!!
Only now do you discover Sabaton, they were formed in 1999 and are very interested in history which shows in their songs. You should see when they sing in Swedish in Gothenburg in an ice hockey arena. My favorite is "En livstid i krig" "A lifetime at war" with that strong message that is still relevant even though it is about a war in the 17th century. czcams.com/video/WBs3G1PvyfM/video.html Don't forget to turn on the subtitles I wish I was there, but then I was on holiday in Thailand
Did you know that both Germans and the Japanese in WWII had the largest Battleships in the world? They were larger then the USS Missouri and USS Iowa. The Germans had the the Bismarck and Tirpitz over 50,000 tons but both were destroyed and sent to the bottom. The Japanese Imperial Navy had Battleships Yamato and Musashi that were over 72,000 tons with the largest naval guns in history. USS Missouri had 16 inch cannons but Yamato and Musashi had 18.1 inch cannons.
Thank you to World of Warships for creating the amazing battle scene for this video. All the ships and fighting were created using CGI, then used Live Action actors placed into the scene. This is just one example of some of World of Warship's amazing battle scenes they can make. BTW- World of Warships is a free to play warship game. You can see more of the Bismarck in their mini documentary too called Naval Legends. czcams.com/video/7K9BJhlt0zo/video.html
the british used the swordfish torpedo bomber for a while due to its ability to fly slow without stalling and short runway requirements making it a great carrier fighter in WW2.
It's ironic that world War one torpedo biplanes, had stopped the mighty BISMARK, AFTER she had sunk GREAT BRITAIN'S FLAGSHIP, Which was the HMS HOOD!!!
If you specifically want another good WW1 song of theirs, 'Attack of the Dead Men' 'Lady of the Dark' or 'Christmas Truce'. If you watch the latter two, make sure it's their video with the history explained like the 'No Bullets Fly' one
Guys you really sould check-out the song "Smoking Snakes" by Sabaton, it's about Brazil in World War II... It's amazing... Congratulations for your channel and saluts from Brazil...
If my history teacher would have taught like this, non biased, And shown a person's own struggles, dreams, fears & loves, I would have ACED WORLD HISTORY!!!
yes the Bismarck was an impressive technological and beautiful monster. Thanks for your react, and the band Sabaton has more great songs and a nice history channel so stay tuned.
What alotof folls dont realie is the bismark was dead in the water and still refused to sink despite the damage she suffered. The germans soon said fuckit basically and sunk it themsleves and allied forces claim they sink it bit tlit was herown crew that sunk it instead.
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"WW1 aircraft" that were designed in 1935 and were VERY capable & adaptable heavy lift, short take off torpedo bomber / reconnaisance aircraft, capable of operating in the most mountainous of seas that would've seen more "modern" aircraft being kept safely lashed down in an aircraft carrier's "hangar deck".
yea, the crew shuttle Bismarck themselves, maybe with a few more days the allied would have managed to sink it, but they found all the torpedo walls from Bismarck that had no damage and the only cannon hots that went through Bismarck armour was waaaay above the water line where the armor were the thinnest when rudder was damaged and it could only go in circles it was doomed eventually, but the allied did not sink it, the german crew did to prevent the flagship of the country to fall into enemy hands
Basically KMS Bismarck had the best Anti-Aircraft guns known to the world at the time. The bombers they were using were gifted to the British by the US, giving them World War I planes that could survive being low to the water, and could take a hit from an antiaircraft gun, so they would fly underneath the range of the guns so that they could properly bomb Bismarck without getting shot down. She was so much of a threat, that they sent the entire royal navy after her
John, the planes are completely accurate, the Swordfish the RN was operating were a mid 1930s design, obsolescent but quite capable if there weren't modern fighters in range. The replacement for them was a botched design, so the Swordfish hung around almost to the end of the war. If you look up any plane that any belligerent started with in 39 and then look up the one it replaced, you're likely to find a biplane and of the top of my head can't think of any country that had more than two generations of monoplanes of any type enter service.
Emphasis on "if there weren't modern fighters in range". When Swordfish tried to stop the Channel dash in early 1942, they got murdered by the Luftwaffe.
@@kemarisite Then again, the Japanese Kate bomber was the only early war carrier attack plane that was survivable against fighters of that generation, barely survivable I think.
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The planes that took down the Bismarck were world war one era planes.
The planes that were involved in The Hunt for the Bismarck were outdated, naturally that would be a problem, but his AA equipment was not tuned for the inferior speed of the Swordfish, so shots would likely miss. I am pretty sure that the ammunition Bismarck had wasn't appropriate for the material of the aircraft either.
For the Airplanes. There were 9 "Swordfish" type aircraft and only one hit. They took off from aircraft carrier "HMS Victorious". The type of aircraft had the advantage that they could start from smaller aircraft carriers. Not every nation had big carriers!
And HMS Ark Royal?
@@charlienordstrom5062 The HMS Ark Royal was also in the hunt. But he asked about the 9 Bombers in the song. The 9 came from the HMS Victorious. HMS Ark Royal was sended 15 bombers and 1 of the 15 made the critical hit!
Also, the Swordfish aircraft had the ability to fly so slowly that the German and Italian anti-aircraft gun predictors, to enable accurate deflection shooting against moving targets, could not adjust to such a low speed!.... and some of the AA gunners did not believe the English would use biplanes and that they could fly so slowly. This was before the US became involved in WW2.
@@damienmaynard8892 I do wonder if that real or just a myth suppose we will never know
@@jacksmith-vs4ct It's true. The Swordfish was a very outdated plane by the time they got involved with the fight. The Germans had developed a kind of computer that would allow them to predict where a plane would go, and this directed their anti aircraft. Problem was the computer was calibrated to fast flying planes of the day, and not something like the slow swordfish planes.
They took Primo Victoria (the boat) out to the coordinates where the wreck lays on the ocean floor, froze there off, the captain of Primo Victoria is a descendent of a Bismarck crew member that survived the sinking of Europe's largest battleship.
Specifically, he's the son of the last crew member, who was very old and ill at the time this was filmed.
Actually, she's the second largest. The largest European battleship is actually Bismarck's sister ship Tirpitz.
Your next Sabaton reaction has to be to their official video for "Christmas Truce".
Great reaction as always you two :)
Bring Tissues. Just like 1916 and No Bullets Fly it hits the feelings hard with a massive sucker punch.
Props to Sabaton for going out on a small boat on the open sea to film the band parts of the video. No green screen for these boys!
You can thank Wargaming for how great this MV turned out. Specifically the team that makes World of Warships. They've made some pretty great cinematic videos for their game too and they've got full digital models of many historic warships. And to answer your question, the hunt for Bismarck took place during WWII. At the time it was the biggest and most advanced battleship in the world which is why the Allies feared it so, and sent everything they had within range to hunt it down the moment it made a break for the Atlantic.
Wargaming also helped produce the Video for Primo Victoria and later Steel Commander.
The "Bismarck" , and his sister ship "Tirpitz", were the 2 largest battleships ever built in Europe (250 meters long, 36 meters wide, and displacing more than 50.000 tones) and they were the pride of the kriegsmarine (Germany's militari navy) during ww2. The "Bismarck" set sail in May 1941 to reach the Atlantic and destroy merchant convoys, but he was intercepted by the British and during a brief fight, destroyed the former flagship of the British fleet and pride of the Royal Navy, the worldwide famous battlecruiser "Hood", by penetrating her armor and detonating her aft main ammunition magazine and killing all 1400 members of her crew except for 3 men, and heavily damaged the battleship "Prince of Wales". This enraged the prime minister Winston Churcil who ordered all his ships in the Atlantic to abandon their operations and destroy the Bismarck. In total more than 40 ships participated to the hunt, making it the biggest naval hunt in history. Meanwhile Bismarck, who had received a hit during the first battle, was leaking fuel and was trying to reach the French port of Saint Nazaire, in occupied France, for repair. After 3 days of playing cat and mouse with the British, Bismarck was attacked by airplanes launched from the aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" and hit by a torpedo in the stern, which jammed his rudders during evasive manuvers, meaning that he was forced to sail in circles, just a few miles away from reaching air cover. In the end battleships "King George V" and "Rodney", along side the heavy cruisers "Norfolk" and "Dorsedshire" fought the already doomed battleship and, during the following 90 minutes completely destroyed it. However, despite having all his guns destroyed, and having received more than 400 hits (out of the 2800 shells that the British had fired at it) his armor was still mostly intact and the ship was still afloat. So the british launched another 4 torpedoes and he disappeared beneath the waves. After inspection of the wreck however it had been discovered that the torpedoes did no significant damage thanks to the battleship's extensive underwater protection, and that Bismarck had probably been scuttled by his crew (although it should be noted that many historians believe that it would have eventually sunk due to the damage received). Of the 2200 men that served on it only 114 survived
shows how tough Bismark was, pretty sure as outdated as it is by today's standards, it can still hold its own..
I like to think of this video as the band sailing out and performing a summoning ritual, allowing Bismarck and his foes to return to the surface once more to battle.
The captain of the boat is the actual son of the survivor portrayed in the video.
You are right about your observation with the biplanes. Swordfish torpedo bombers were very outdated at the time but this happened pretty early on in the war
and were so slow that they didnt lose a single one because Bismarck's AA guns were designed for faster more modern planes and couldnt accurately shoot at them. LOL
When I was a crusty old man history teacher, I did play Sabaton videos in class.
It was a collaboration with Wargaming company to promote their online game World of Warships.
To answer your question on why the aircrafts look like they're from World War 1 it's because during the 1930s and early stages of World War 2 torpedo technology wasn't advance and needed to be dropped close to the target and aimed accurately, and from low-level because the delicate mechanisms of the torpedo wouldn’t work if it hit the water falling too fast and a Biplane was an ideal plane for torpedo attacks due to its low speed.
Ah, so insightful. Makes sense now!
Many viewers get confused over the biplanes, but in fact, the Germans also used them in the early stages of the war (like the Heinkel He 59).
Its also chilling when the Bismark appears out of the fog!
All the hair on my arms stood up the first time I saw that part of the video!
The skipper of the fishing trawler is the son of the last Survivor of the Bismarck.
There is a rumor that the "swinging legs" visible for a moment as the band climbs the stairs belong to Floor Jansen, Hannes' wife and singer for Nightwish.
Sabaton History channel gives a decent short (relatively) history lesson for every history based song of their
The cinematography used is the trailer for the Bismarck and H.M.S Hood for a game called World of Warships. Sabaton do allot of collaborations with the developers of games called "War Thunder" and "World of Warships" and what an absolutely amazing Band.
As it stands, some interesting things come out about Bismarck.
First, his 15" guns, when fired full broadside, knocked out his own radar.
Second, the Bismarck had issues dealing with aircraft. His anti-air guns (AA) could not elevate high enough to be effective, when the Swordfish torpedo-bombers came after Bismarck.
Third, about the aircraft. Not only were the airplanes from World War I, most nations were hesitant to spend money on airpower, even after the war began. Most military leaders thought World War II would be another war of trench warfare; the German blitzkrieg, "lightning war," put an end to that thought. It wasn't until 1941 that planes began being developed that resembled what we know, such as the Spitfire II (UK), the P-40 Warhawk, P-47 Thunderbolt, and the P-38 Lightning (US), the Yak-3 (Russia), the A6M "Zero" fighter of Japan, and finally, the BF-109 and BF-110 of the German Luftwaffe. Most early planes were still of World War I vintage, such as the PO-2 trainer planes given to the 588th Night Bombing Regiment of the Soviet Air Forces, the "Night Witches," which was a single-engine fighter that was a cloth and wood biplane, the same as the Swordfish torpedo-bombers you see here.
for context:
this song is about the warship Bismarck, the pride of the German navy during WW2, it had a sister ship the Tirpitz, that ship was sunk off the coast of Norway where it rests to this day as a protected wargrave.
the Bismarck was meant to be great 'equaliser' for Germany at sea and their primary weapon to disrupt the American trade ships supplying Britain with much needed food and munitions in order to starve the British out and force a surrender of the last nation not to succumb to the Nazi warmachine, due to how prized the ship was, the commanders of the German navy sent this ship out without informing Hitler of what they were doing for fear of retribution from him, it was supposed to travel up the eastern side of Britain and loop around Scotland through the straight between Scotland and Iceland, where it would then take up routes throughout the north Atlantic sinking as many shipping runs as possible between the UK and the US.
thanks to Norway they provided intel that a massive German ship was moving into the North Sea off the British coast, so it was ordered to be followed, the Royal Navy sent the pride of the fleet the HMS Hood along with a few other ships to intercept this German ship and its escort the Prince Eugen, the Bismarck tried to evade the Royal Navy ships but ended up being forced into engagement, through a lucky shot it hit the HMS hood in the primary munitions chamber of the vessel and instantly destroyed the flagship of Britain, killing almost all onboard save for a handful of survivors, the HMS prince of wales fired on the Bismarck but also took damage and was forced to pull back out of combat lest she also be sunk.
it was determined that the Bismarck was not to escape and was to be destroyed by any means necessary, so the Royal Navy chased the Bismarck which was damaged by an extremely lucky strike by a Swordfish torpedo to the rudder, and while this didn't cripple the ship, it forced it into a situation where it could not turn properly and was restricted in what max speed it could achieve meaning that as time went on it became impossible to outrun the pursuing British fleet, as the Bismarck tried to reach France (which had already been overrun by the German army at this point) in order to signal for the German air force to provide air support to allow the Bismarck to get into a dock to get repaired it became apparent however that they would have to stand and fight, and after a lucky shot from the British fleet, hitting the command deck of the Bismarck killing any who were in there at the time, command of the ship fell to Ernst Lindemann who called for the ship to be scuttled and all remaining hands to abandon ship, in the music video it is Ernst Lindemann shown carving the co-ordinates of approximately where the Bismarck would sink.
as far as the music video is concerned it is a collaboration between the game development company 'wargaming' famous for their games 'world of warships' and 'world of tanks', hence why all the ships shown are both historically accurate as well as the CGI being extremely high quality.
the older guy who is captaining the fishing boat that the band is playing on is the real life son of the soldier that was given the compass pocketwatch by Admiral Ernst Lindemann on the Bismarck, and the one used in the music video is just a prop but he does in fact own the original still.
it should also be noted that the wreck of the Bismarck was found by the same person who found the wreck of the RMS Titanic, Robert Ballard, and to this day the actual location remains secret to protect it as a wargrave to those who died there, the true location known to very few people.
This is ww2 in 1941 bismarck after firing it's fifth salvo at hms hood it had a magazine explosion and sunk in 3 minutes with 1,915 out of the 1,918 going down with the ship.
One sailor was interviewed in thee 80’s. When the boiler blew it created a huge bubble that pushes him to the surface
"Primo Victoria" is not just the name of their boat in this clip but another one of their songs! Joakim was probably bashing his leg to make sure it was still there! Despite the fire-pots aboard the boat, the guys nearly froze making this clip!
The swordfish torpedo bombers had some advantages... it's low speed made for a more stable platform for dropping torpedoes which at the time really needed to be dropped in a narrow window of altitudes and speed. America didn't go that route because they had lots of money and resources to build things like the Avenger torpedo bomber. The other major advantage was actually quite interesting. Anti-aircraft weaponry was usually equipped with explosive shells instead of lead bullets or penetrators. The idea is that you can deal a lot more damage to aircraft with shrapnel than the occasional bullet passing through. The Swordfish however had a hull made primarily of textiles instead of metal so the anti-aircraft bullets would go right through them harmlessly. Aircraft like that don't care if there's a few tiny holes in it, it will still fly. This allowed the aircraft to return to base without any losses.
You must listen to Tommy Johansson, the one doing the guitarsolo, supervoice, you will thank me I promise!! He has his own channel on youtube where he sings different covers, and is also singer in his own band Majestica. The covers you should listen to first ( my favorites) is
*you raise me up
*shes gone
*the winner takes it all
And a lot more..
Even the small older Swordfishplanes are accurate . Since the english used them to go real low and somewhat under the radar and the smaller units were also harder to hit .
(+what the other advantages ASDrake mentions here below)
I just can’t stop watching Sabaton reaction videos.
saw them live this year, they played in the town i live, and holy they really deliver pretty much exactly how their recordings are. 10/10
There were a lot of weapons, ships, planes, etc. that saw action in WW1 were used again during WW2. Many of the battleships from all over were used during WW1. Of course, all were overhauled and modernized over time. In between the World Wars, the Interwar Period, there were treaties that limit the construction of new battleships and all navies retained many of their older vessels to compensate. Only a handful of new-gen battleships partook in WW2. Germany's Kreigsmarine's Scharnhorst-class and Bismarck-class. Italy's Regia Marina's Vittorio Veneto-class. The Imperial Japanese Navy's Yamato-class. The British Royal Navy's King George V-class. And the US Navy's North Carolina-class, South Dakota-class, and Iowa-class. Fun fact. The Iowa-class battleships were the only class of battleships in all of the world to be brought back on several occasions up until the 90's.
One of our neighbors who died years ago was a survivor of the Bismarck he was pretty miserable the rest of his days. Poor soul.😢
This video was a collaboration with a video game company
I recommended this video to you guys some years ago with other things from Sweden that was worth to watch. This as the most amazing video created do to effects and things like it.
Thx for the recommendation! So glad we finally checked it out!
The british was a bit behind at this time so the planes they were using "swordfish" was from first worldwar and used as torpedo bombers, but replace shortly after this.
2.52 - Bismarck was in 1989 by Robert Ballard, the same man that found the titanic
The guns on the Bismarck was so powerful that it knocked their radar out of whack. And the boat wasn't even designed to fight by planes and were designed to fight Pikes towards that Pie plays ever designed to fight modern Fighters they weren't able to lower their guns locked low enough to knock the swordfishes out of the sky
Bismarck was a ship used in the earlier days of WWII, pre-Pearl Harbor.
i listen to sabaton for about 17 years now, and i have to say, i actually learned more from sabaton about our history then from school, cause you don't get all the dirty details in school. They just present us as heros in their wars, but not how it actually was.
That's the irony of history, that what was then the most modern warship was so badly damaged at the rudder by WWI planes that she was no longer able to escape her pursuers.
You found Swedish gold 💪
btw them playing on a boat is not in a studio. its on the boat at sea
Biplane generate more lift and can take off from short runway carriers more reliably.
this was made and produced by a small video game company they made the game world of warships the song primo victoria is made by the same compay world of tanks they even gave sabaton a premium tank for anyone to play
The Swordfish, the plane depicted had a unique history, it wasn't a WW1 aircraft, it was introduced in 1936, and was in use to the end of the war.
It could carry a 1760 lbs torpedo, or a 1500 lbs. mine or that much in bombs.
It had a range of over 500 miles and performance wise it beat the Devastator that the Americans started the war with. Which was a monoplane. It also mounted radar so it could perform night attacks. It looked primitive, but really wasn't.
They teamed up with World of Warships for the effects.
here just a bit more information
The "Bismarck" , and his sister ship "Tirpitz", were the 2 largest battleships ever built in Europe (250 meters long, 36 meters wide, and displacing more than 50.000 tones) and they were the pride of the kriegsmarine (Germany's militari navy) during Ww2. The "Bismarck" set sail in May 1941 to reach the Atlantic and destroy merchant convoys, but he was intercepted by the British and during a brief fight, destroyed the former flagship of the British fleet and pride of the Royal Navy, the worldwide famous battlecruiser "Hood", by penetrating her armor and detonating her aft main ammunition magazine and killing all 1400 members of her crew except for 3 men, and heavily damaged the battleship "Prince of Wales". This enraged the prime minister Winston Churcil who ordered all his ships in the Atlantic to abandon their operations and destroy the Bismarck. In total more than 40 ships participated to the hunt, making it the biggest naval hunt in history. Meanwhile Bismarck, who had received a hit during the first battle, was leaking fuel and was trying to reach the French port of Saint Nazaire, in occupied France, for repair. After 3 days of playing cat and mouse with the British, Bismarck was attacked by airplanes launched from the aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" and hit by a torpedo in the stern, which jammed his rudders during evasive manuvers, meaning that he was forced to sail in circles, just a few miles away from reaching air cover. In the end battleships "King George V" and "Rodney", along side the heavy cruisers "Norfolk" and "Dorsedshire" fought the already doomed battleship and, during the following 90 minutes completely destroyed it. However, despite having all his guns destroyed, and having received more than 400 hits (out of the 2800 shells that the British had fired at it) his armor was still mostly intact and the ship was still afloat. So the british launched another 4 torpedoes and he disappeared beneath the waves. After inspection of the wreck however it had been discovered that the torpedoes did no significant damage thanks to the battleship's excellent armor, and that Bismarck had been scuttled by his crew (although it should be noted that many historians believe that it would have eventually sunk due to the damage received). Of the 2200 men that served on it, only 114 survived.
Fun fact; during the annual Sabaton Christmas Cruise in 2019, due to the popularity of the song, the band was given permission by the German government and navy to lay a wreath where the cruise crossed one of Bismarck's routes.
the planes (swordfish) were indeed from ww1, which shows how desperate the british navy was to sink the Bismark, after it sank the pride of the royal navy, the HMS Hood
The Captain in this clip is actually the son of a Bisamark survivor (i just heard that)
Great reaction (as always I might add) . Sabaton is really really good (but I'm biased because i grew up just 40 km from their origin in Falun, Sweden)😂
But first I just wanted to mention another suggeted artist (was suggested when you did Tongi's version of "The winner takes it all") that also is a great "easter egg" within Sabaton:
Tommy Johannsson, the blond guitarist. He has his own band Majestica (where he sings, write the music and play guitar) and does covers on YT (he has done a very good version of "the winner takes it all " ..but their are mamy mote ..ususally "Shes gone " is suggested for first reaction to his covers). Tommy also (besides guitar) plays bass, keyboard, drums,
..I suggest you look him up to see the deptht of the talent that lives in Sabaton (at hellfest 2019 Joakim lost his vocie and the guritarists (Tommy and Chris) had to jump in (with a couple of hours notice) and sing lead vocal for the entire show - from printed lyrics since they never had done/rehearsed the lead vocals parts before.
You also need to check some official live stuff because Sabaton take their history serious but they are also so good live. Having lots of fun between themselves but also with the audience . You can actually watch the same song ..first offical music video, then animated version and then live and find them to all have a place ..not being redundant.
I absolutely agree. She's Gone is like Tommy's Ghost Love Score - a song that instantly blows people away with incredible vocals
The planes were a type of air craft that would drop torpedos in the ocean to hit ships. There were more modern planes of course but becouse of the type explosive and how it was delivered ww1 related air crafts where used instead of planes like the Grumman f6f hell cat, and the f4u corsair
hey guys, believe it or not those planes were the ACTUAL type they used in the 2nd world war, in that situation at least. First of all though it was the British navy, they launched them from one of there early aircraft carriers, one that was "old" and only carried swordfish biplane torpedo bombers, they had to approach at wave Hight to avoid the anti-aircraft guns from the Bismarck they were so slow, but could maintain lift at much lower speeds allowing for more accurate targeting. the torpedo bombers were able to hit one of her engines causing the ship to be trapped in a turn, making it an easy target for the fleet.
the young man and the old man tied together by the watch. Also the drummer for sabaton is married to Floor Jansen of Nightwish-enjoy sabaton-the 1916 is a real tear jerker.
listen to this artist is also from Sweden a cover of one of Elvis's famous songs and hold on. Nomy can't help falling in love
The old Planes where the "Joker" for the British, they where so slow that the modern german Anti Aircraft guns had difficulties to keep target and shoot em
FYI: the Japanese had the world's largest naval battleship, the YOMAMOTO; SHE WAS DEFEATED BY AMERICAN PLANES, AS THE EMPIRE OF JAPAN ATTEMPTED TO BEACH HER, TO MAKE HER A BEACHED BATTERY. THEN THERE WAS THE SISTER SHIP OF THE USS Missouri, the MIGHTY MO, WHICH HAD EARNED 19 BATTLE STARS, THE USS NEW JERSEY; 883 FEET. BB62; 16 INCH GUNS! A CARTRIDGE AS LONG AS A TOYOTA PICKUP TRUCK!! SHE WAS RETIRED AFTER THE PERDIAN GULF WAR, IN THE 1990S!!!
Only now do you discover Sabaton, they were formed in 1999 and are very interested in history which shows in their songs.
You should see when they sing in Swedish in Gothenburg in an ice hockey arena.
My favorite is "En livstid i krig" "A lifetime at war" with that strong message that is still relevant even though it is about a war in the 17th century.
czcams.com/video/WBs3G1PvyfM/video.html Don't forget to turn on the subtitles
I wish I was there, but then I was on holiday in Thailand
Did you know that both Germans and the Japanese in WWII had the largest Battleships in the world? They were larger then the USS Missouri and USS Iowa. The Germans had the the Bismarck and Tirpitz over 50,000 tons but both were destroyed and sent to the bottom. The Japanese Imperial Navy had Battleships Yamato and Musashi that were over 72,000 tons with the largest naval guns in history. USS Missouri had 16 inch cannons but Yamato and Musashi had 18.1 inch cannons.
Thank you to World of Warships for creating the amazing battle scene for this video. All the ships and fighting were created using CGI, then used Live Action actors placed into the scene. This is just one example of some of World of Warship's amazing battle scenes they can make. BTW- World of Warships is a free to play warship game. You can see more of the Bismarck in their mini documentary too called Naval Legends. czcams.com/video/7K9BJhlt0zo/video.html
the british used the swordfish torpedo bomber for a while due to its ability to fly slow without stalling and short runway requirements making it a great carrier fighter in WW2.
It's ironic that world War one torpedo biplanes, had stopped the mighty BISMARK, AFTER she had sunk GREAT BRITAIN'S FLAGSHIP, Which was the HMS HOOD!!!
If you specifically want another good WW1 song of theirs, 'Attack of the Dead Men' 'Lady of the Dark' or 'Christmas Truce'. If you watch the latter two, make sure it's their video with the history explained like the 'No Bullets Fly' one
Guys you really sould check-out the song "Smoking Snakes" by Sabaton, it's about Brazil in World War II...
It's amazing...
Congratulations for your channel and saluts from Brazil...
If my history teacher would have taught like this, non biased, And shown a person's own struggles, dreams, fears & loves, I would have ACED WORLD HISTORY!!!
You guys should look up the story of Unsinkable Sam
yes the Bismarck was an impressive technological and beautiful monster. Thanks for your react, and the band Sabaton has more great songs and a nice history channel so stay tuned.
There was a lot of outdated equipment being used early on in the war
imagine if MTV was still a thing.. they crushing that channel wiht 15 broadcast a day
What alotof folls dont realie is the bismark was dead in the water and still refused to sink despite the damage she suffered. The germans soon said fuckit basically and sunk it themsleves and allied forces claim they sink it bit tlit was herown crew that sunk it instead.
on thing i would sugest if you have a chance to see them live go and do that it`s a show to remember
Recomend this music
Sabaton - 40:1 (Live In Poland)
you should check out their other channel "Sabaton History" the history of many of their song is discussed there
I find your channel really mega great 👍! You two 😊 are the best. Among my favorites are "Shakira - Waka Waka" or "Abba - The Last Video" as well as "Psy - Gangnam Style" as well as "Johnny Cash - Hurt" also the extremely 😢 emotional music style of rock history "Disturbed - The Sound Of Silence" has touched me all and as 😌 well as "The Cranberries - Zombie" also counted 👌. Many greetings from Germany 🇩🇪, keep up 🙋♂️ the good work 🎶🎧!
Wow so many great songs! Thx for being a fan! We're all fans of great music!
@@ReactToTheWorld And just subscribed to 😄 your channel earlier. I'm looking 😊 forward to future videos that you will show us. 👍 Have fun furthermore, best regards 🤘😎!
Will you do Ghost division next please?
The most legendary warship of all times.
Check out En livstid i krig live they in Swedish in that one I think it’s one of their best
but its eather the animation or the lyrics with the animation yarnhub make all the animations.
At the time all the British had was old WW1 Bi planes as Torpedo planes AKA the swordfish but they could reach speeds of over 100mph!
"WW1 aircraft" that were designed in 1935 and were VERY capable & adaptable heavy lift, short take off torpedo bomber / reconnaisance aircraft, capable of operating in the most mountainous of seas that would've seen more "modern" aircraft being kept safely lashed down in an aircraft carrier's "hangar deck".
yea, the crew shuttle Bismarck themselves, maybe with a few more days the allied would have managed to sink it, but they found all the torpedo walls from Bismarck that had no damage and the only cannon hots that went through Bismarck armour was waaaay above the water line where the armor were the thinnest when rudder was damaged and it could only go in circles it was doomed eventually, but the allied did not sink it, the german crew did to prevent the flagship of the country to fall into enemy hands
Basically KMS Bismarck had the best Anti-Aircraft guns known to the world at the time. The bombers they were using were gifted to the British by the US, giving them World War I planes that could survive being low to the water, and could take a hit from an antiaircraft gun, so they would fly underneath the range of the guns so that they could properly bomb Bismarck without getting shot down. She was so much of a threat, that they sent the entire royal navy after her
please for my grandmother she had a stroke
Actually some History teachers do use Sabaton to teach History.
Lulu was right! Why not use what we have left?
1=0 to Lulu!
John, the planes are completely accurate, the Swordfish the RN was operating were a mid 1930s design, obsolescent but quite capable if there weren't modern fighters in range. The replacement for them was a botched design, so the Swordfish hung around almost to the end of the war. If you look up any plane that any belligerent started with in 39 and then look up the one it replaced, you're likely to find a biplane and of the top of my head can't think of any country that had more than two generations of monoplanes of any type enter service.
Emphasis on "if there weren't modern fighters in range". When Swordfish tried to stop the Channel dash in early 1942, they got murdered by the Luftwaffe.
@@kemarisite Then again, the Japanese Kate bomber was the only early war carrier attack plane that was survivable against fighters of that generation, barely survivable I think.
I recommend
SABATON - 40:1
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SABATON - Uprising
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Sabaton - Primo Victoria
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dude a boss lol
Time to react to Iam Tongi's latest national anthem performance at the MLB Home run derby.
your next reaction should be no bullets fly
We checked it out already! So watch the reaction. What a wild story! czcams.com/video/7Zxne7Z_dsg/video.html
Look, you're with her for the tots not the brains
Can you react to "Inmate 4859" Sabaton? :)
Sabaton singer related to the Minions ? I mean because of the voice 🤣🤣🤣 Rammstein first 🤘
During the 2nd world War, Great Britian was still a colonial power!! But was beginning to lean slowly, as a Democracy. But, they were still relying on British Naval powers to crush Admiral Dunitz naval fortitude!!: big mistake, on both sides!! So many sailors lost!!! Sailors, the world over, a different breed; I had joined the US NAVY, IN 84. I RESPECTED MY NAVAL ADVISARY. AND NEVER UNDERESTIMATED HIS POTENTIAL FOR SEAMANSHIP, & COMAT!!!
Did i hear that right? She has an Onl****ns??
WTF he dont know it is WW1 or WW2? or you #!##$@ ? Bismark in WW1?
ASS! :)