European Reacts to Bat Bombs - MORE Terrifying Than Atomic Bombs?! - FAT ELECTRICIAN

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  • @european-reacts
    @european-reacts  Рік тому +14

    Feel free to hit the like button and subscribe for more content. I would also love to hear your suggestions for future reactions-drop them in the comments below!🙏

    • @Reshtarc
      @Reshtarc Рік тому

      The Pres in question did have Polio. He was on some real meds. He also died as the Pres. before WWII was over.

    • @scottcrosser1220
      @scottcrosser1220 Рік тому +2

      Please react to Admiral McRaven's motivational speech. It is one of the best speeches ever.

    • @pissymema6633
      @pissymema6633 6 місяців тому

      @@scottcrosser1220 I agree. It was fantastic.

    • @kaleb3213
      @kaleb3213 5 місяців тому

      If you think This was crazy, go ahead and react to his other videos covering "pigeon guided missiles", and Britain's "chicken activated nuclear land mine". Go ahead and read that a second time, and yes, these are real.

  • @catlady443
    @catlady443 Рік тому +94

    One of his lines that's my favorites is
    " The one thing you don't want is to give a marine a problem and time to innovate"
    Americans are crazy, sort of

    • @european-reacts
      @european-reacts  Рік тому +17

      I love it.

    • @hellhound1389
      @hellhound1389 Рік тому +18

      Marines smell fear, run on anger and alcohol, and love crayons

    • @pissymema6633
      @pissymema6633 6 місяців тому +2

      No 'sort of' about it. If we have time, we can be quite creative. 😁

    • @bogustoast22none25
      @bogustoast22none25 6 місяців тому +2

      It's true. Marines have doctrine, they have procedures, they have orientation and instructions, for a reason. These guys are smart, they may not act like it, but I'm convinced it's part of their Operational Procedure to look dumb on a day to day basis. Because when you present them with a situation that no one has trained them to handle, they will improvise the shit out of it.
      When told "Figure It Out" you are giving them free reign to pull out every single crazy idea their individual brains can come up with, sort out the most unpredictable, they most lethal, the most fun, and they will probably choose either the most unpredictable, or most fun, because everyone expects the most lethal, no one expects them to find a TAC-P guy, lie to him to go with them, and put him in a situation where he'll use the entire month's budget or missile strike in 10 minutes.

  • @nautifella
    @nautifella Рік тому +55

    This idea was off the charts genius. You see, at that time Japan was primarily using wood and rice paper as construction material. They would have killed more people with two bombs than the nucs, because they would have covered an area of hundreds of square miles.

  • @PAT8888-is2pd
    @PAT8888-is2pd 4 місяці тому +5

    Dentists with a little free time on their hands? A very dangerous thing. The Gatling gun: invented by a dentist with too much time on his hands. Doc Holiday (one of the deadliest gunfighters of the old west? A dentist with too much time on his hands. Then there was this guy.

  • @CGDiscussion
    @CGDiscussion Рік тому +19

    During this experiment a couple of bats escaped and managed to burn down the facility where this was happening. They also burned down the air traffic control tower adjacent to it. I have pictures of the actual fire and have been to the old site several times do do the history of the WWII airbase.

  • @MrVvulf
    @MrVvulf Рік тому +19

    The Mongols supposedly used sparrows to burn a town in 1207. They demanded 1000 sparrows to spare a town they were besieging, promising that they'd leave if this tribute was paid.
    Instead, they tied burning strings to the legs of the sparrows and released them. The birds flew back to their roosts (mostly in the eaves of homes) and the city was soon fighting so many fires the Mongol army was able to breach the walls.
    The Icelandic historian Snorri Sturluson tells of a similar tactic used by Norse raiders against a town in Sicily in his tale "Heimskringla". Birds with burning materials released to set a town alight.
    Both stories are dubious, but you never know, perhaps the American inventor of the bat bomb had heard those other stories and thought..."It just might work!"

    • @garrettpridemore5758
      @garrettpridemore5758 Рік тому +6

      Olga of Kiev kind of did the same thing as the Mongols. But instead of burning string, she used sacks of sulfur, and she and her men just sat back and watched the town burn.

  • @CantTakeTheSkysFromME
    @CantTakeTheSkysFromME Рік тому +32

    As I have said before Merica, lol. "cant be done,... watch this".

    • @quasicrystal5166
      @quasicrystal5166 Рік тому +6

      Yeah that was a "Hey hold my beer" moment for sure. Lol

  • @rhiahlMT
    @rhiahlMT Рік тому +10

    I love this guy. His videos on the different military occupational specialties (MOS) are absolutely hilarious to us Veterans. Look up his video on the Last War Chief, Joe Medicine Crow. He is the last man from the Crow Tribe to earn that tribal honor of War Chief. It was a big deal when he died, he was from Montana.

  • @cazador7131
    @cazador7131 Рік тому +31

    Sometimes I like how the rest of the world looks at my country with pure confusion and disappointment.

    • @rebel11201991
      @rebel11201991 9 місяців тому +6

      I don't usually see disappointment more confusion a healthy dose of "what the heck is wrong with you"

    • @cazador7131
      @cazador7131 9 місяців тому +3

      @@rebel11201991 That's the kind of energy I aim to live my life by.

  • @george217
    @george217 Рік тому +9

    You should watch his video on the USS No Go. "A concrete battleship". Also known as Ft. Drum.(not the one in NY.)

    • @hellhound1389
      @hellhound1389 Рік тому

      It took the Seabees to cripple it but it's still standing

  • @alanrogers7090
    @alanrogers7090 Рік тому +7

    FDRs letter was addressed to "Wild" Bill Donovan, head of the OSS. Office of Strategic Operations, the predecessor to the CIA. So, yeah, FDR thought that this might work.

  • @carls1959
    @carls1959 Рік тому +7

    You would love the story of the African queen whose husband, the king, was murdered by a neighboring kingdom and she laid siege to their capitol city. They told the city that she would end the siege, if they gave her a pigeon, or sparrow from each household. They readily agreed and she then took the birds and fastened sulfur to them, lit it and let them loose. They all flew home and started fires that burned the city to the ground.

    • @pamt9543
      @pamt9543 6 місяців тому

      😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @damonbryan7232
    @damonbryan7232 Рік тому +30

    Military has a long history of using animals. Bats, dogs, sea lions, dolphins.

    • @Singe0255
      @Singe0255 Рік тому +5

      Pidgeon-guided glide bombs,.. nuclear chicken roosts,.. you name it

    • @brigidtheirish
      @brigidtheirish Рік тому +2

      Otters.

    • @jesterbrown90
      @jesterbrown90 Рік тому +1

      We don't talk about the dolphins

    • @jishani1
      @jishani1 Рік тому +1

      there was the whole cat guided bombs thing

    • @LWolf12
      @LWolf12 11 місяців тому +1

      Don't forget the pigeons.

  • @yukinatsukumo
    @yukinatsukumo 11 місяців тому +4

    as a pennyslvanian can confirm the dentists here are crazy enough for this to be normal here

  • @rohan1970b
    @rohan1970b Рік тому +14

    Just to clarify, he says "bombing run" referring to all planes attacking one target at one time. In the case of the atomic bombs, it was a single plane dropping the bomb. On Mar 9 (Japanese call it the night of the black snow in reference to all the ash) over 250 planes participated, but it was 1 single "bombing run".

  • @fearthehoneybadger
    @fearthehoneybadger 9 місяців тому +1

    I've seen that same book. It was real. It was tested on a mock-up town constructed on an airfield and burned the place down.

  • @SkyrekGaming
    @SkyrekGaming Рік тому +10

    Never heard of this one before, but it is pretty interesting. Never underestimate American ingenuity and creativity.

  • @LWolf12
    @LWolf12 11 місяців тому +2

    Why don't we have Fried Chicken vending machines now? That sounds like an amazing idea.

  • @toferg.8264
    @toferg.8264 2 місяці тому

    I never thought before his video that a bombing run with weaker bombs could be more powerful than a bombing run with a stronger bomb.

  • @Marcus-p5i5s
    @Marcus-p5i5s Рік тому +5

    In America we like to make things go BOOM! 💣

  • @Maria_Erias
    @Maria_Erias 11 місяців тому +1

    I highly, highly recommend The Fat Electrician's video about the Berlin Airlift. It is an incredible story.

  • @dannysarco6743
    @dannysarco6743 Рік тому +20

    The weird thing is, that type of weapon would be wildly effective today. Hey Ukraine, take notes on this one! Seriously.

    • @captin3149
      @captin3149 Рік тому +2

      Would it? I feel that the reason firebombs were effective out of proportion was because Japan was largely made from wood and paper at the time. Would European and Russian areas be as susceptible? I'm not saying it wouldn't be deadly, just perhaps not as deadly as other weapons that we have now.

  • @JasmineSpirit
    @JasmineSpirit Рік тому

    There are bat species that grow to be as big as dogs, one is even bigger than that. The vision of it arriving overhead would have been hilarious & terrifying.

  • @hellhound1389
    @hellhound1389 Рік тому

    Because I have always been a history fan I knew about the bat bomb and that the incendiary bombs were deadlier than nukes. Also the idea of the bat bomb eventually evolved into the cluster bomb

  • @4iMRyan
    @4iMRyan Рік тому

    2 out of 3 inventions?... Not too Bad!!! (Or, too BAT!!!) 😮‍💨...I know, I know 😞

  • @DarkKnight52365
    @DarkKnight52365 Рік тому +1

    a little correction the atomic bombs are the deadliest single use bombs

  • @dessatt
    @dessatt Рік тому

    You might like the habitual linecrosser. He does face on maps, and planes, and boats lol. They are short and usually current news. But you might like him. He and TFE even did a collab recently. They are friends i believe.

    • @hellhound1389
      @hellhound1389 Рік тому

      It was about the USS Wisconsin and the Korean war. All I can say is... TEMPER TEMPER

  • @andrewwillcockson8120
    @andrewwillcockson8120 5 місяців тому

    So this guy tried to invent drone mail before the drone.

  • @brucewright4875
    @brucewright4875 Рік тому +1

    Love your content, keep up the good work

  • @Ryarios
    @Ryarios Рік тому +1

    Not only did it work, it worked too well…

  • @quasicrystal5166
    @quasicrystal5166 Рік тому +9

    Funnily enough not the only times animals were used in war. Lol i'm pretty sure various armies used different ones. Also the obvious dogs.

    • @european-reacts
      @european-reacts  Рік тому +4

      Good point 💯

    • @nautifella
      @nautifella Рік тому +3

      In WWII, the Russians trained dogs to put bombs under tanks. And they sure did. When released they ran straight under the *RUSSIAN TANKS* just like they were trained to do.

    • @quasicrystal5166
      @quasicrystal5166 Рік тому +4

      @@nautifella Yeah i've heard about that. Not all ideas are good ideas. Lol

  • @andrewfenn4534
    @andrewfenn4534 Рік тому +5

    Watch his nuclear chicken video, that's real too

  • @0101tuber
    @0101tuber Рік тому +2

    Infographics has a good video titled
    Weirdest World War 2 Weapons You Never Heard Of

  • @spacetiger5076
    @spacetiger5076 Рік тому +2

    Can I believe this if I didn’t already know this? I would say yes. You should see what else our government spends our taxpayer money on. They “study” a lot of weird stuff.

  • @nneichan9353
    @nneichan9353 11 місяців тому

    some dentist held a seance with Gengis Khan.

  • @kevinkasmarski6635
    @kevinkasmarski6635 11 місяців тому

    Reality is often stranger then fiction

  • @somthingbrutal
    @somthingbrutal Рік тому

    its like the Red Army dog bombs in WW2, they trained the dogs to associate tanks with food, but they trained them with Soviet tanks not German so when they set them loose on the battlefield they headed straight for the Soviet tanks

  • @williamroberts8853
    @williamroberts8853 День тому

    Believe it my friend it exists.

  • @defftony
    @defftony Рік тому +3

    I checked the pinned comment and the video description and can't find the link to the other channel.

    • @dessatt
      @dessatt Рік тому

      If you mean the original video. Type in the fat electrician. You wont regret it. If not, I'm sorry. Just trying to help.

  • @ladeedaa
    @ladeedaa Рік тому +1

    This is known buddy!

  • @Thecoff638
    @Thecoff638 11 місяців тому

    My guess is bats use echolocation echolocation you can “see” what you can’t like an x-ray. 0 idea if it’s true just thinking out loud.

  • @jeffhall2411
    @jeffhall2411 Рік тому +5

    so, what is your other channel?

    • @european-reacts
      @european-reacts  Рік тому +4

      André reacts. Go to my profile. I have the channel on the Bottom. 🙌

  • @Majorpain32677
    @Majorpain32677 Рік тому +1

    The movie wanted with Angelina Jolie the guy put bombs on rats then let them loose in the base

  • @baydenhenry1522
    @baydenhenry1522 Рік тому

    Rosevelt was a great president everyone loved him.

  • @janetblack4493
    @janetblack4493 Рік тому +1

    You should watch The Fat Electrician, America blew up a whale.

  • @ajayblake8740
    @ajayblake8740 Рік тому

    Whats your new channel called ?

  • @Majorpain32677
    @Majorpain32677 Рік тому

    Thats insane why didnt batman use this

  • @johnathancoker8671
    @johnathancoker8671 Рік тому +1

    i know how to keep peta happy AND keep this bat bomb project going AND make it EVEN DEADLIER. now we have small robots, now we have artificial intelligence, now we can take an AI teach it all about bat life and mannerisms add some coding that dictates only so many batbots can roost in 1 spot at a time and put that ai into bat-like flying robots, robots that wont get tired cause theyre robots. robots that will spread farther and roost in MORE nooks and crannys cause we told it only so many can be there at once. and when the bombs detonate no actual bats are used. and to the enemy it still looks like a swarm of bats and even if they new whats up what are they gonna do about it? go areound trying to swat these lil bots that are flying eratically in bat like fashion oh and theres millions of them. then boom. the whole dam nation bursts into flames. local firefighters cant even pretend to get all those fires under control. now picture a few squadrens of B52s each plane with like a hundred of these bombs on bord

  • @chriscorsi622
    @chriscorsi622 11 місяців тому

    True story

  • @robertarodgers
    @robertarodgers 10 місяців тому

    All stories are real

  • @chriscorsi622
    @chriscorsi622 11 місяців тому

    Larry bird ultra mixed tape you won’t believe it.react to this video

  • @meaders2002
    @meaders2002 Рік тому +1

    The atomic bombs were actually developed to terminate the Nazi part of Germany. They were tested late in June of 45. Germany had already surrendered in May. The first week of August Hiroshima was hit.

    • @meaders2002
      @meaders2002 Рік тому

      @EuropeanReact. Is there something I can help with?

  • @Majorpain32677
    @Majorpain32677 Рік тому

    Most UA-camrs lie i would check on this i dont believe this one at all

    • @danij5055
      @danij5055 Рік тому

      Did you check on this yourself before commenting? Or are you just telling someone else to do it without doing it yourself?

  • @Majorpain32677
    @Majorpain32677 Рік тому

    If it wasnt for snowflake peta we probably would have used this at some point

  • @Majorpain32677
    @Majorpain32677 Рік тому

    I think i prefer bat bomb sounds like a batman gadget seems like this is a joke being a veteran this seems like bull crap

  • @Majorpain32677
    @Majorpain32677 Рік тому

    Thats insane why didnt batman use this