Check out the Merch Store: growling-sidewinder.creator-spring.com/ American Murder Hornet Hoodie: growling-sidewinder.creator-spring.com/listing/american-murder-hornet-bluepri?product=227 Something a little different today, thought we could try our hand at some dive bombing, hope you guys enjoyed the video thank you for watching and your on going support with the channel, its very much appreciated.
In real life, there was version of the Stuka with 2 37mm cannons under the wings, they called it the "Kanonenvogel" or cannon bird. If there is such a version in IL2, how about taking it out for a video? :D There were other versions too, with 2 20mm guns and gunpof options ranging from 8 machinguns to 4 20mm cannons.
Great video and thanks for posting. Cliff Claven trivia: Early war Stuka sirens could not be turned on or off and ran continuously throughout the entire flight. After one or two months of operation, Stuka pilots were known to sneak out to the flight line at night and smash off the siren blades with hammers.
The Jericho's Horns are such a beautiful concept. Singlehandedly making planes less effective, troops more scared, and leaving people forever under the impression that a diving plane "makes that sound".
@@andrewstevenson118 All in the name of simplicity. Given the Stukas mission put them pulling out of a dive right above ground forces, the gear would be the exposed to ground fire. Believe it or not, the wheel pants or skirts reduced drag quite a bit. On my own airplane, adding the wheel pants increased my airspeed by almost 20 knots. 18 to be exact.
It is 1800 kilograms not 1800 pounds, so about twice as heavy. For comparison: Pe-2 which is a much larger two-engined tactical bomber can only carry up to 1000kg bombs in the game.
Whenever I come across someone from the US talking measurements, I allow myself to accept any bullshit measurement system. Luckily he said pounds and not 1800 Footballs or beef burgers.
Love these IL2 WW2 vids - I've been playing the since it first came out, having started on flight sims back in 1990 on the Amiga with FA-18 Interceptor (revolutionary for its day!). While I can appreciate the clinical artistry and positioning in your modern jet fighter dogfight kills, I much prefer the visceral feel of a WW2/WW1 scrap. BTW, your '2 morons" vids are always good for a chuckle. Thanks again; keep up the good work!
Originally, the Jericho Trumpets sounded all the time. The pilots hated that noise. Eventually the Jericho Trumpets were changed so the pilot could control when they came on and when to shut them off. Not the same but, the same: They use to attach whistles to bombs to make them whistle while they were falling to earth.
During the battle of Britain, Stuka losses were too high so they were assigned Bf-110 protection. However the 110's were an easy target for fighters so they were in turn sssigned 109 cover :) The 110 was quickly relegated to ground attack and bombing only.
@@tarkalak Huh, never realised the P-38 was a heavy fighter, I see it's even heavier than the Jug. It's just so nimble and sleek looking that I never realised how swole it actually was. The only good wunderwaffe was Kelly Johnson.
@@VikingTeddy There was a whole concept of Heavy Fighters before WWII. BF110, Ki-45, P-38 and a few others were designed as heavy fighters. Il-1 (from which the Il-2 was derived) was also designed as heavy fighter. Heavy fighter were made to have long range and provide escort to long range bombers. They usually had 2 engines. Only the P-38 was successful in the original role.
Really love your whole channel, GS. I especially love these recent videos with the little history blurb w/ clips at the beginning. Really a great testament to your knowledge and passion for military aviation. Keep up the fantastic work!
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8:00 - "You can take Growling Sidewinder out of the fighter, but you can't take the fighter out of Growling Sidewinder !" ! 😂 Dive bombing were my favourite missions in the OG IL2. For some the thrill is in knife-edge dogfight, to me it was when I was diving down in an SBD over a Japanese cruiser firing all guns and chased by zeros, wheezing thru the bullets as speed gets higher and higher, getting the ship in the crosshair to drop a devastating blow.
I once had a chance to talk to a lady who survived WWII in Poland, and experienced a number of Stuka's raids in the city of Lviv. She described with horror what she thought was the whistle of the bombs falling through the air, and when I told her that these were sirens attached to the Stuka airplanes, and that they were designed (among other things) as psychological weapons, her comment was: "these sons of bitches...". She also mentioned that even many decades after the WWII, when she heard these sirens as a part of a soundtrack in some documentary playing on TV, she was instantly transported to her time in Lviv under bombardment, and that the horror of the experience never neither left her, nor lessened with time. You have to keep in mind that one of even the smaller bombs was capable of collapsing several buildings in a densely populated urban area, burying the inhabitants gathered in the basements of these buildings alive. The sirens were so loud, even people in the basements could hear them clearly.
Can you do a video featuring the B25 Mitchell? There was an awesome stub nose version that housed a tank gun i believe. Would love to see some ground and pound on tanks and trains. 😃👍
They included the trapeze into the modeling of the aircraft, it would be cool to see if it was actually functional. Maybe the profile to drop the larger weapon restricted releasing the bomb at a 90 degree dive. Cool video. I’ve been a Stuka fan since I was a kid and built a Gullows stick and tissue model.
Especially the air battle where Dauntless pilot "Swede" Vejtasa, attacked by three Zeros shot two down and and brought the other down with his wingtip during a head-on pass!
Great to be back watching your channel again... After being horribly hacked by some Freakshow....as always,very entertaining and informative... Thanks again.
Thank you for another great video. I would like to see the challenge that a Ki84 would present to a P51 escorting a B29 on a low altitude bomb run over Japan.
is there the 37mm flak cannon version of the stuka in this game?! iirc that was the Ju 87 G-1. pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel was a beast in that version. he flew 2530 missions and scored, besides many other things, 3 ships and 519 tanks and 9 air victories with that plane. despite the fact that he was a real nazi, this was a very impressive record.
Loved his book "Stuka Ace". A picture perfect example of a confident, bordering on arrogant, German WW2 pilot. You can really feel the growing concern, then alarm, then despondency at the turn in fortunes of the Wehrmacht in the Soviet Union.
Will probably happen when Leatherneck's F-4U-1D for DCS drops. Corsair vs. 190 is a very interesting fight, they're more or less on par (is the FW is an A-5 especially) in speed, climb and diving capabilities, but the FW rolls better and is more responsive at higher speeds while the Corsair turns better and has superior low speed handling.
The History Channel has got nothing on you, keep up the stellar work! This concept of aircraft and conflict histories and then the same narrator actually flying in VR is absolute gold! No more voice actors that have little to no knowledge of what they are talking about, let alone how you can put us in the shoes of those brave airmen from so long ago, you show how they fought and demonstrate it with candor, sincerity and just enough humor to let us smile and enough humility to even share your mistakes. Well done!
I would love to have this plane in dcs. It will make the warbirds battles really entertaining. Imagine hitting train stations or the ships at the coast in Normandy
I have read that the bombs were carried on a rack that swung forward slightly and down from the planes belly so the stuka could employ a steeper dive and drop the bomb without it hitting the propeller. Maybe there was a weight limit on the bomb, maybe this was a different variant plane, I'm not sure.
If the automatic pull out was used in real life, it would allow enemy flak gunners to target them as they would all pull out at the same height. So it was disconnected once stukas reached front line units.
The Stuka was designed from the American dive bomber program. The Germans say American dive bombers and liked what they saw. They in fact imported some American dive bombers to examine.
*Pro* tip (will not work with 1800+ bombs) Stuka has a hatch right under your legs, between the pedals. When you fly to the target you open that hatch and upon the target coming on full view, you roll and dive. Will work 9/10.
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Something a little different today, thought we could try our hand at some dive bombing, hope you guys enjoyed the video thank you for watching and your on going support with the channel, its very much appreciated.
In real life, there was version of the Stuka with 2 37mm cannons under the wings, they called it the "Kanonenvogel" or cannon bird.
If there is such a version in IL2, how about taking it out for a video? :D
There were other versions too, with 2 20mm guns and gunpof options ranging from 8 machinguns to 4 20mm cannons.
Good drop....Thanks
“Other stukas hitting what seems to be….military targets”
Every Russian house and hovel explodes in the distance
lol
@@Stormidze every russian is a military object
Fun fact: That is not a 1800lb bomb..
It is a 1800 KG bomb
I was literally looking for this comment. That's just shy of 4000lb
Great video and thanks for posting.
Cliff Claven trivia: Early war Stuka sirens could not be turned on or off and ran continuously throughout the entire flight. After one or two months of operation, Stuka pilots were known to sneak out to the flight line at night and smash off the siren blades with hammers.
Not at all surprising!
Not just for the noise, it slowed them down quite a bit too.
The Jericho's Horns are such a beautiful concept. Singlehandedly making planes less effective, troops more scared, and leaving people forever under the impression that a diving plane "makes that sound".
@@debbiestimac5175 Yeah, slow enough with the fixed undercarriage (why?) without added drag.
@@andrewstevenson118 All in the name of simplicity. Given the Stukas mission put them pulling out of a dive right above ground forces, the gear would be the exposed to ground fire. Believe it or not, the wheel pants or skirts reduced drag quite a bit. On my own airplane, adding the wheel pants increased my airspeed by almost 20 knots. 18 to be exact.
My grandpa was a Stuka pilot at the eastern front. I listened to a lot of war stories...
"I haven't done any dive bombing yet" sounds like an average late war German dive bomb pilot
There's book, called "Kiev 1941", by David Stahel. It's a solid read.
Good on ya for letting us know 👍✊
It is 1800 kilograms not 1800 pounds, so about twice as heavy. For comparison: Pe-2 which is a much larger two-engined tactical bomber can only carry up to 1000kg bombs in the game.
2.2 pounds per kg. 10 kg = 22lb.
The SC 1800 (Sprengbombe Cylindrisch) or cylindrical explosive bomb 1800kg or 4000 pounds
Well that explains why the explosion looked so much more Chadly than a Mk-84.
Whenever I come across someone from the US talking measurements, I allow myself to accept any bullshit measurement system. Luckily he said pounds and not 1800 Footballs or beef burgers.
"I've never done this before. I read about it in a book once." *goes perfectly* -I can't even remember how my buttons are mapped.
I genuinely love how you added history and its significant impact it had on both sides axis, allies
That was an 1800 KG or 4000 lb bomb which makes this plane even crazier
Love these IL2 WW2 vids - I've been playing the since it first came out, having started on flight sims back in 1990 on the Amiga with FA-18 Interceptor (revolutionary for its day!). While I can appreciate the clinical artistry and positioning in your modern jet fighter dogfight kills, I much prefer the visceral feel of a WW2/WW1 scrap. BTW, your '2 morons" vids are always good for a chuckle. Thanks again; keep up the good work!
I like how when your bomb hit the rear gunner fired into the explosion
It’s like when u kick dirt into the face of a guy someone else already beat up
Originally, the Jericho Trumpets sounded all the time. The pilots hated that noise. Eventually the Jericho Trumpets were changed so the pilot could control when they came on and when to shut them off. Not the same but, the same: They use to attach whistles to bombs to make them whistle while they were falling to earth.
During the battle of Britain, Stuka losses were too high so they were assigned Bf-110 protection.
However the 110's were an easy target for fighters so they were in turn sssigned 109 cover :)
The 110 was quickly relegated to ground attack and bombing only.
Heavy fighters. Heavy and incapable of fighting.
The only good heavy fighter was the P-38.
@@tarkalak Huh, never realised the P-38 was a heavy fighter, I see it's even heavier than the Jug. It's just so nimble and sleek looking that I never realised how swole it actually was.
The only good wunderwaffe was Kelly Johnson.
@@VikingTeddy There was a whole concept of Heavy Fighters before WWII. BF110, Ki-45, P-38 and a few others were designed as heavy fighters. Il-1 (from which the Il-2 was derived) was also designed as heavy fighter. Heavy fighter were made to have long range and provide escort to long range bombers. They usually had 2 engines.
Only the P-38 was successful in the original role.
Really love your whole channel, GS. I especially love these recent videos with the little history blurb w/ clips at the beginning. Really a great testament to your knowledge and passion for military aviation. Keep up the fantastic work!
8:00 - "You can take Growling Sidewinder out of the fighter, but you can't take the fighter out of Growling Sidewinder !" ! 😂
Dive bombing were my favourite missions in the OG IL2. For some the thrill is in knife-edge dogfight, to me it was when I was diving down in an SBD over a Japanese cruiser firing all guns and chased by zeros, wheezing thru the bullets as speed gets higher and higher, getting the ship in the crosshair to drop a devastating blow.
Battle of Midway Intensifies 😂
Dude, such a great channel. As a first responder it's always a pleasure to watch your videos on my down time.
I once had a chance to talk to a lady who survived WWII in Poland, and experienced a number of Stuka's raids in the city of Lviv. She described with horror what she thought was the whistle of the bombs falling through the air, and when I told her that these were sirens attached to the Stuka airplanes, and that they were designed (among other things) as psychological weapons, her comment was: "these sons of bitches...". She also mentioned that even many decades after the WWII, when she heard these sirens as a part of a soundtrack in some documentary playing on TV, she was instantly transported to her time in Lviv under bombardment, and that the horror of the experience never neither left her, nor lessened with time. You have to keep in mind that one of even the smaller bombs was capable of collapsing several buildings in a densely populated urban area, burying the inhabitants gathered in the basements of these buildings alive. The sirens were so loud, even people in the basements could hear them clearly.
love the educational aspect of this one! great research!
I am getting quite a bit of a chuckle out of this imagining that 4:10 is the actual inner monologue of the pilot in that plane.
"it looks like friendlies are hitting what looks to be other military targets, softening them up"
Friendly Stukas: *bombing village homes*
You see a village home. I see a fortified position.
Love the history lesson in the beginning of the vid keep up the great work
"A little luck never hurt anybody."
Well, except a couple trucks, amirite?
Can you do a video featuring the B25 Mitchell? There was an awesome stub nose version that housed a tank gun i believe. Would love to see some ground and pound on tanks and trains. 😃👍
It's not in the game yet
I like the pictures of wives/girlfriends in the cockpit of these aircraft. It's a nice touch.
My cockpit pin-up is a Keanu Reeves look-alike, with great shoulders and forearms. 6'2" of twisted steel and sex appeal!
@@debbiestimac5175 wth??
@@Randomguy-sq5sj I'm a woman, why would I have a girl on my cockpit steam gauge cluster?
I'm so glad he made a video about the flying kazoo
I know it's a video game, but the sound of the Jericho trumpets is just haunting
Would have been more impressive if he had used the F3 view in replay though
GS, as a German pilot: "A little bit of luck never hurt anybody.."
Soviet ground forces in that village: "Comrade, are you sure about that?"
Very refreshing and well presented history! Thank you very much!
They included the trapeze into the modeling of the aircraft, it would be cool to see if it was actually functional. Maybe the profile to drop the larger weapon restricted releasing the bomb at a 90 degree dive. Cool video. I’ve been a Stuka fan since I was a kid and built a Gullows stick and tissue model.
Great video! One correction only: the stuka’s mg was 8mm (7,92) caliber, not the 7,62
Dude I love you in the ww2 heavies. Such a different interesting dynamic
3:13 Ah yes the yonkers 87
Love these new bomber missions from sturmovik! Keep them
Coming!
Interesting video. I would love to see something similar done with the Dauntless SBD!
Especially the air battle where Dauntless pilot "Swede" Vejtasa, attacked by three Zeros shot two down and and brought the other down with his wingtip during a head-on pass!
Great to be back watching your channel again... After being horribly hacked by some Freakshow....as always,very entertaining and informative... Thanks again.
I've got so many books on the stuka and it's hilarious how often the pilots complain about the trumpets, they hated them.
Nice...enjoyed the paratrooper insertion as well...interesting perspective.
Man I love your content. Keep going 💪🏻
Love the history intro to the vid!
Aw man short vid , I like watching the whole journey there and back landing and everything
Have you talked of the night witches?...
Silent glide attacks in biplane cropdusters!... those ladies had balls
Absolutely loving the ww1 and ww2 videos!!! Love the information too!
Thank you for another great video. I would like to see the challenge that a Ki84 would present to a P51 escorting a B29 on a low altitude bomb run over Japan.
I wait to see you killing tanks with this thing in "Hans Ulrich Rudel - Style".
Nice video! Question: why did you landing with 3 wheels at time instead 2 first and then the third of rear? 9:40
cuz I suck at landing world war 2 aircraft lol.
thats how u land on german airfields
00:40 They first tried to put automatic pull up drive brakes on just one wing....... Somehow it was not abgreat succues 😋
“A little bit of luck never hurt anybody” well, those poor Soviets might disagree with that..
is there the 37mm flak cannon version of the stuka in this game?! iirc that was the Ju 87 G-1. pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel was a beast in that version. he flew 2530 missions and scored, besides many other things, 3 ships and 519 tanks and 9 air victories with that plane. despite the fact that he was a real nazi, this was a very impressive record.
Yes, that variant is in the game.
Loved his book "Stuka Ace". A picture perfect example of a confident, bordering on arrogant, German WW2 pilot. You can really feel the growing concern, then alarm, then despondency at the turn in fortunes of the Wehrmacht in the Soviet Union.
“Only he is lost who gives himself up for lost!”
Any chance you will be flying a, Vought F4U CORSAIR sometime soon ?
Yes! I’d love to see that against the FW 190, since those two airplanes never actually met in combat.
Will probably happen when Leatherneck's F-4U-1D for DCS drops. Corsair vs. 190 is a very interesting fight, they're more or less on par (is the FW is an A-5 especially) in speed, climb and diving capabilities, but the FW rolls better and is more responsive at higher speeds while the Corsair turns better and has superior low speed handling.
@@CakePrincessCelestia And the Corsair is faster. It would be a great matchup.
The History Channel has got nothing on you, keep up the stellar work! This concept of aircraft and conflict histories and then the same narrator actually flying in VR is absolute gold! No more voice actors that have little to no knowledge of what they are talking about, let alone how you can put us in the shoes of those brave airmen from so long ago, you show how they fought and demonstrate it with candor, sincerity and just enough humor to let us smile and enough humility to even share your mistakes. Well done!
"A little bit of luck didn't hurt anybody"
Yeal tell that to the 50 or so Soviets you hit with that bomb. xD
One of my favourite planes in the whole game
I would love to have this plane in dcs. It will make the warbirds battles really entertaining. Imagine hitting train stations or the ships at the coast in Normandy
Oh, it's too bad there are now flying examples of the Stuka today. Imagine hearing that siren at an airshow.
There is one being restored into flying condition actually.
Another great video!
detachment Kuhlmey was very important in Finland at 1944 destroying tank's and delaying soviet attack.
8:00 Bagged 2 of those with Ju-87
Growling Sidewinder: "A little bit of luck never hurt anybody"
*every target that had bombs dropped on it*: What about us?
Everyone asks WHERE is the target but never HOW is the target. :(
I'd love to see more Stula content! Maybe a dive bombing montage?
I love the intro
The cameraman inside a plane: hey, I didn't turn on the camera, let's take the shot again...let's repeat it again 🗿
Great video! Very entertaining
I have read that the bombs were carried on a rack that swung forward slightly and down from the planes belly so the stuka could employ a steeper dive and drop the bomb without it hitting the propeller. Maybe there was a weight limit on the bomb, maybe this was a different variant plane, I'm not sure.
1800kg = 3968lb ….. or very large !
If the automatic pull out was used in real life, it would allow enemy flak gunners to target them as they would all pull out at the same height. So it was disconnected once stukas reached front line units.
That was a lesson learned the hard way in either the Spanish revolution or when they pushed into Poland, cant remember.
Ok GS hear me out
“2 Morons try and survive in a stuka”
Bismark just published a book on the Stuka
Awesome vid GS!
Great video, thank you
Did I see that right? It looked like the Mig pilot's shoot didn't open.
"a little bit of luck never hurt anybody"
except the guys you bombed lol
I'm thinking that Mig 3 pilot did not have enough airspace for his chute to fully open.
That was very cool, thanks!
haha SSTUKA GOES IIIIIIIAAAAAAAAHHHUUU BOOOM!
Could you fly other bomber like the ju 88 (idk if thats possible)? Cool vid btw
Ju88 fighter maybe?
Ju-88 is available, so it's possible. Also the Pe-2 which is the Russian counterpart. I'd love to see him in the Il-2 doing CAS though.
“A little luck never hurt anyone”…apart from the 4 tanks you vaporized with an 1800 kg bomb. 🙄
Loved the intro.
The Stuka was designed from the American dive bomber program. The Germans say American dive bombers and liked what they saw. They in fact imported some American dive bombers to examine.
Your flew the Stuka and the Ju 52.
That blonde girl on their respective Dashboards "flew" both their pilots, as it seems.
Does the Stuka in IL2 have the auto dive/recovery feature like the real Stuka?
yes he has it ;)
She does
That single Russian fighter, gear down flaps out, in the middle of a flock of Stuka's hoping he gets away with his foolish attempt at camouflage
GS....who's the fraulein in the photo on the left side of the cockpit?? Miss Eastern Front 1941? :-)
I note that the Bosch liked to design aircraft with flaperon’s a lot.
Rudel took his off and never had any issues.
Always thought the trumpets were under the nose 👃 lol
Sir Robin bravely ran away
I love your videos.
A fan from Algeria.
your voice is good for a documentary
My Grandfather was a Stuka Pilot🤙🤙🤙
Dear GS,
Could a gun fight between an F-8E(FN) Crusader and an F-4E/D Phantom ll be experimented with?
*Pro* tip (will not work with 1800+ bombs) Stuka has a hatch right under your legs, between the pedals. When you fly to the target you open that hatch and upon the target coming on full view, you roll and dive. Will work 9/10.
now give the stuka with machine gun pods a go ;)
I can't ever get that thing to altitude with a payload, even without much fuel.
Hello, do you still use winwing and how is it? after your or so? THX
I wish these types videos got more attention so there would be more reason to do these
Weren't they used during the Spanish Civil War, which was a means to test how the siren affects people and makes them freeze up?
Don't think so. The Condor Legion flew Junkers JU52's and Heinkel 51's, neither model with the sirens.
Best intro ever
Just a comment the siren was hated by the pilot and most of them did not use it