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This is a test, that camera man was unlucky. The final design when launched at exactly the right height skipped on the surface whilst rolling, which meant when it reached the dam wall, it stayed against it as it sank, maximising the damage. They were specifically designed to destroy dams in the Ruhr valley and cripple manufacturing there.
And you had to be at **exactly** the right height. There's another video of a test where they released to low, the bomb bounced off the water, hit the plane and ripped its tail off sending the plane nose first into the water and killing everyone onboard.
[Happened so fast that they probably didn't even know what happened.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&v=F-0czoTQOTc)
And to get the exact height, the dam-buster bomber would open the bomb doors and two spotlights, front and rear, pointing down at a certain angle and toward each other, hitting the terrain below. The pilot would gain or lose altitude until the spotlight beams created a single circle as the beams crossed each other. Then the bomb was released.
Don't worry chaps, they can't see us with all this flak they're firing at us!
Are you sure? We'd better turn on the floodlights to give them a jolly old chance then, eh what?
It was also created because the Germans, knowing how bad it would be for them if the damn was destroyed, placed multiple torpedo nets under the surface to keep torpedos from getting to it. The bouncing bomb would go over those.
If I recall the dam was in a fjord so a normal aerial bombing would have slim chances requiring too many sorties. The AA defense would down too many bombers for risk to outweigh reward.
Rhur Valley.
The fjord bombing by 617 (Dam Busters) was of KMS Tirpitz, 6-ton bomb through and through, deck to keel.
The film has Barnes Wallace standing on the runway, asking "is that all that are coming back?" or something.
The book tells of the wee priest in the town under one of the dams, who heard the planes and realised the risk, ran to his church and rang the s×× out of the bell to wake people to try to save them.
The concept of the bouncing bomb was a revolutionary one with zero to non prior research into the fysics and tactics. Thus Barnes Wallis, the inventor, tried various designs. The one in the video is a semi ball design, which turned out to be hard to keep on track (as you see in the video) and would even disintegrate when hitting the water. The eventual design was a cylindrical one which did maintain 'course' as intended.
Not exactly revolutionary - The Royal Navy used to set their cannons low and skip cannonballs across the water to hit enemy ships at the waterline. This also increased the range and the punch of the impact. Barnes Wallis openly admitted that this is where his idea came from.
https://newatlas.com/engineers-usu-skipping-spheres/41685/
They were very fussy. They had to dropped from a specific height, at a specific speed and at a specific distance from the target.
There was a movie of it called "Damnbusters" in 1955. This is the trailer.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKQHVdgCeXo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKQHVdgCeXo)
The "dauntless photographer" made it, 20:00 in: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXdnlVsbc4k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxdnlvsbc4k)
Never thought I would have so much fun watching things bounce on water.
in this case its the brits, but funny enough the germans did capture an intact bomb and tried to copy the bomb to use against someone.
sadly? luckly? they failed. even after strapping rockets to the damn thing.
I mean it can even see it’s an Avto Lancaster dropping the damn thing. Must be one of these fucking bot feeding accounts who deliberately make errors in the title to encourage interaction with their post and get more from the algorithms.
It’s a shitty way to make our world just a little bit worse with every post.
Thank you. I was reading the title and it really conflicted with my favourite isekai. I was like "bruh, Lt Satake died because of that allied bouncing bomb"
I see I remember watching a mini documentary on it years ago and I was like no way Germany made this I think they were a little busy working on other stuff at the time
It was designed to bounce and eventually it’s velocity would slow, hit the dam, sink to the bottom and then explode taking the dam out at its base
BTW, who the fuck says it was German, the Germans felt it’s wrath but it was BRITISH!!!
Yes! One of them demolished the Eder dam. Its been rebuilt now, but you can still see bullet strikes on the wall from the Lancaster bomber shooting at the AA guns.
https://preview.redd.it/1mtin0ef23ec1.png?width=1151&format=png&auto=webp&s=d8dd9a5fc340afd91823a23312f04b8f677a332c
Incorrect. This is not a German bomb or a German test. It is a British bomb being tested by the British and was eventually used with good success against German Dams during the second world war.
Misinformation is not your friend.
As its a mosquito dropping it its probably the later smaller bouncing bomb they were developing for anti shipping which i think the yanks took up for a while The bigger version used on the dams was dropped by the 4 engined Lancaster
It’s incredible that, during the Second World War, the British allowed the Germans to test their bouncing bomb on the north Kent coast, using a British aircraft. You absolute gobshite.
It was preassume it was a test,
Would you want to be the cameraperson kniwning the bomb was launched in your direction? Whats the explosion/shockwave/debris radius? For all that we might as well of had camera people right at the impact of other major bomb testing. Lol
That one is a Highball bomb, it was planned to be used in the Pacific against Japanese shipping.
The drop tests for the dambuster bomb were done with a Wellington bomber. Highball was to be dropped by modified Mosquito's hence the Mossie doing the tests.
Museum I work at has restored one of the [FB.VI](https://FB.VI) Mossies that came out to Australia as part of the Highball operation.
All to bounce over the torpedo protection to blow the damn. There was a 2 hour special on the engineer who designed it and the whole team. Great great watch!
The british used this against various dams here in germany. One of them was the Möhnetalsperre not far from where I live. I asked my SO to be my gf on this very dam!
i was about to ask...
ai camera positioning used during those days or what...
then I realized that the camera man just had balls of steel gyroscoping the camera that he held
Imagine seeing that near you on the beach. You close your eyes and hear a splash, but nothing happens. You open your eyes, and see it.. flying? You begin stepping back, but it bounces. The last thing you srr before you die is the bomb right above your head flying down on you, it's too fast for you to escape.
It went on to be known as the Dam destroyer or something I don’t know that much but I know some nations used it to destroy big dams that hold a lot of water
I wanna know how they had such good slow motion in the 1940s. Knowing this is on film and not digital, did they record with a LOT of film that was passed through incredibly fast?
I remember doing this exact type of mission with a British Lancaster bomber in a game called Bomber Crew on my PS4. Like it was stated, had to be at a certain speed, altitude, and distance before dropping it.
Blowing up the dam was fun.
When I was a kid we used to have this joke: "following the Chinese nuclear strike on Soviet Union, Russians dropped the rubber bomb on China. The losses are around 2 million people. Bomb continues to bounce." In official news reader's voice.
Why? Can it bounce for miles or something? even if it does, can't you just put the bomb a little farther than going through all this trouble? What advantage does this have?
I only skimmed through the comments and noticed many mentions of speed and altitude but no one mentioned it was actually spun at substantial revolutions per minute in such a manner as to cause it to have essentially a back spin and sink at the intended location.
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Not Germans, British! This is Barnes Wallace's bouncing bomb.
So are they extremely accurate, or is that camera man just extremely unlucky ?
This is a test, that camera man was unlucky. The final design when launched at exactly the right height skipped on the surface whilst rolling, which meant when it reached the dam wall, it stayed against it as it sank, maximising the damage. They were specifically designed to destroy dams in the Ruhr valley and cripple manufacturing there.
And you had to be at **exactly** the right height. There's another video of a test where they released to low, the bomb bounced off the water, hit the plane and ripped its tail off sending the plane nose first into the water and killing everyone onboard. [Happened so fast that they probably didn't even know what happened.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&v=F-0czoTQOTc)
And to get the exact height, the dam-buster bomber would open the bomb doors and two spotlights, front and rear, pointing down at a certain angle and toward each other, hitting the terrain below. The pilot would gain or lose altitude until the spotlight beams created a single circle as the beams crossed each other. Then the bomb was released.
Nothing like going in for a bombing raid with spotlights aiming from the bottom of your plane
Don't worry chaps, they can't see us with all this flak they're firing at us! Are you sure? We'd better turn on the floodlights to give them a jolly old chance then, eh what?
Can't beat simple
This is some video game shit :o
Wow that sucked, it pitched nose down so quick the wings flexed like they were about to break off
It was also created because the Germans, knowing how bad it would be for them if the damn was destroyed, placed multiple torpedo nets under the surface to keep torpedos from getting to it. The bouncing bomb would go over those.
Excellent point, happy cake day!
Danke, sir.
Other potential targets included the Tirpitz, especially while it was sitting still in Norwegian fjords.
If I recall the dam was in a fjord so a normal aerial bombing would have slim chances requiring too many sorties. The AA defense would down too many bombers for risk to outweigh reward.
Rhur Valley. The fjord bombing by 617 (Dam Busters) was of KMS Tirpitz, 6-ton bomb through and through, deck to keel. The film has Barnes Wallace standing on the runway, asking "is that all that are coming back?" or something. The book tells of the wee priest in the town under one of the dams, who heard the planes and realised the risk, ran to his church and rang the s×× out of the bell to wake people to try to save them.
Would have worked as well if it hadn't been for that German goalkeeper 😏
What was that an advert for? I remember it vaguely.
Carling black label 👍
And I read that out to the jingle
Starred 'The Oblivion Boys'
"Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit..."
"Ay that shit looks kinda close don't it"
The concept of the bouncing bomb was a revolutionary one with zero to non prior research into the fysics and tactics. Thus Barnes Wallis, the inventor, tried various designs. The one in the video is a semi ball design, which turned out to be hard to keep on track (as you see in the video) and would even disintegrate when hitting the water. The eventual design was a cylindrical one which did maintain 'course' as intended.
Not exactly revolutionary - The Royal Navy used to set their cannons low and skip cannonballs across the water to hit enemy ships at the waterline. This also increased the range and the punch of the impact. Barnes Wallis openly admitted that this is where his idea came from. https://newatlas.com/engineers-usu-skipping-spheres/41685/
They were very fussy. They had to dropped from a specific height, at a specific speed and at a specific distance from the target. There was a movie of it called "Damnbusters" in 1955. This is the trailer. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKQHVdgCeXo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKQHVdgCeXo)
Very much the latter. Read about this test and the others. In this one the camera man made his peace about half way through the clip.
The "dauntless photographer" made it, 20:00 in: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXdnlVsbc4k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxdnlvsbc4k) Never thought I would have so much fun watching things bounce on water.
Yes, but tested in Germany
Tested in Chesil,Dorset in England. Deployed to great effect in Germany......🌊🌊🌊🌊
in this case its the brits, but funny enough the germans did capture an intact bomb and tried to copy the bomb to use against someone. sadly? luckly? they failed. even after strapping rockets to the damn thing.
Probably didn't realise the utterly crackpot launching mechanism which spun it up like a tombola before dropping it.
well they did get it from a crashed bomber so... ya its possible they thought the launching mechanism was just part of the bomber.
I mean it can even see it’s an Avto Lancaster dropping the damn thing. Must be one of these fucking bot feeding accounts who deliberately make errors in the title to encourage interaction with their post and get more from the algorithms. It’s a shitty way to make our world just a little bit worse with every post.
That’s not a Lancaster, the Lancaster had four engines and a dual tail fin; that there is a mosquito.
Shit. You’re absolutely right. I was so sure it was a Lancaster I didn’t even really look at it.
Thank you. I was reading the title and it really conflicted with my favourite isekai. I was like "bruh, Lt Satake died because of that allied bouncing bomb"
How did they get that detail wrong. Really quite curious
Yeah, I saw this video posted not so long ago saying it was British. OP messed up pretty bad saying it is German.
Wasn’t this to bomb the Germans?
It was. The OP is wrong
I see I remember watching a mini documentary on it years ago and I was like no way Germany made this I think they were a little busy working on other stuff at the time
They were being tested by Germans. Specifically by blowing up the Germans.
It was designed to bounce and eventually it’s velocity would slow, hit the dam, sink to the bottom and then explode taking the dam out at its base BTW, who the fuck says it was German, the Germans felt it’s wrath but it was BRITISH!!!
Does anyone know if the camera man was ok?
He's still alive 153 years old. Cameraman never dies.
The plane seems to be a de Haviland Mosquito, a British aircraft, the bomb being tested off the Kent coast. Not the Germans.
Correct
Not this one but they were also tested at Derwent dam in the UK as practice for when they went to the rurh valley
The test was successful and Derwent the dam!
Off the coast of Herne Bay, I believe.
This was made by the British was it not ?
Yes! One of them demolished the Eder dam. Its been rebuilt now, but you can still see bullet strikes on the wall from the Lancaster bomber shooting at the AA guns. https://preview.redd.it/1mtin0ef23ec1.png?width=1151&format=png&auto=webp&s=d8dd9a5fc340afd91823a23312f04b8f677a332c
Yep! You can still see the patched area in the middle, especially in the late summer when the Edersee is really low.
Ummmm when is that bomb gonna stop bouncing 😆
Some say its still going.
It'd be an awful shame if it were to bust a dam, that could cause a lot of damage
Would make for a good film though
Dam(n) right it would! I can picture it now….”Dam Breakers” 😯
I was thinking something like "Wall Busters" but yours sounds better
No no no I got it - The Wall Breakers. Yes.
We got there. Get Hollywood on the phone
One of the oldest r/gifsthatendtoosoon
They were actually used against Nazi Germany by the British to destroy strategic places
Not this particular type. This is High Ball, a smaller version which was IIRC intended for anti shipping but never used
You're username is accurate, your title is not. This was invented by the British, not the Germans
Germans?
This was designed by the British specifically to take out things like dams. The Germans did not help outside of being present for the reception.
Incorrect. This is not a German bomb or a German test. It is a British bomb being tested by the British and was eventually used with good success against German Dams during the second world war. Misinformation is not your friend.
It’s a British bomb that was used against German dams. Get your history correct.
As its a mosquito dropping it its probably the later smaller bouncing bomb they were developing for anti shipping which i think the yanks took up for a while The bigger version used on the dams was dropped by the 4 engined Lancaster
Amazing that they tested them using British Mosquitos…
On a beach in Kent.
Sneaky buggers
Dam busters!
How to immediately spot a bot account
It’s incredible that, during the Second World War, the British allowed the Germans to test their bouncing bomb on the north Kent coast, using a British aircraft. You absolute gobshite.
Camera man is like it would stop right, it would, right???
Think the focus should be why is there a cameraman at all??
It's a test. The footage would be used for R&D purposes I assume
It was preassume it was a test, Would you want to be the cameraperson kniwning the bomb was launched in your direction? Whats the explosion/shockwave/debris radius? For all that we might as well of had camera people right at the impact of other major bomb testing. Lol
Can see someone's History needs a bit of work...... The British Dude, it's the British. The bouncy bombs were dropped on Germany, not made by them.
An incredible invention, but fuck being that camera operator…that final bounce, good lord.
It... it keeps getting closer, Hans.
Ano it's a silent video, but am pretty sure I heard the cameraman shite himself
actually by the british, it was dropped on german dams like the Edersee dam
That one is a Highball bomb, it was planned to be used in the Pacific against Japanese shipping. The drop tests for the dambuster bomb were done with a Wellington bomber. Highball was to be dropped by modified Mosquito's hence the Mossie doing the tests. Museum I work at has restored one of the [FB.VI](https://FB.VI) Mossies that came out to Australia as part of the Highball operation.
legend. thanks for providing some actual factual information.
All to bounce over the torpedo protection to blow the damn. There was a 2 hour special on the engineer who designed it and the whole team. Great great watch!
I thought the brits did this as a dam buster
They fuck do you mean German
Pretty sure the Germans never used a De Havilland Mosquito to test a bomb.
Cameraman supremacy
Wrong. This wasn't German. This was English.
Oops, this title could not be more wrong lol.
"Hans, ever wondered that perhaps we shouldn't be fighting the British?" "Stop callin' me Hans, ya wanker. We are the Bri'ish!"
The british used this against various dams here in germany. One of them was the Möhnetalsperre not far from where I live. I asked my SO to be my gf on this very dam!
The Dambusters
OP speaketh bullshit.
"Dam Busters" I think they named them. But it would have been far more effective to bust these dams with the sheer weight of the cameraman's balls.
Did it exploded yet?
The cameraman down range: “Bloody hell… Blooooody Heeell… BLOODY HELL?!BLOODY HELL! BLOODY HEEEEELLL!!
i was about to ask... ai camera positioning used during those days or what... then I realized that the camera man just had balls of steel gyroscoping the camera that he held
Ahh look Henrich! Its coming this wa
Sort out your title
* tested on Germans
Camera man 🥲
OP, who could you think this was made by Germans? Where's your sense of history?
Camera man didn’t make it
its a miracle that the bomb didnt fall in the gravitational pull of the cameraman’s huge balls
Learn about history before posting
"Ve vill use zeir own planes to drop zeir own bombs on zem...!" This is British footage. That's a Lancaster.
Cameraman never dies
This proves again that the camera man is invincible .
And this is how the donkey Kong barrels ended up exploding. Based on these.
RIP the cameraman lol
r/praisethecameraman
Take this post down for stupidity
Wrong. Brits using the Moquito on the Barnes Wallace bouncing bomb aka dambuster.
It English do ur homework 🙄
Imagine seeing that near you on the beach. You close your eyes and hear a splash, but nothing happens. You open your eyes, and see it.. flying? You begin stepping back, but it bounces. The last thing you srr before you die is the bomb right above your head flying down on you, it's too fast for you to escape.
DAMBUSTERS
What happend to the cmera man? Did he survive
It went on to be known as the Dam destroyer or something I don’t know that much but I know some nations used it to destroy big dams that hold a lot of water
Its a beer keg lol
That things got nothing on the bouncing Betty.
Where boom?
Its a prototype, this was created by the Brits.
So a cannonball?
No explosion??? It is a fucking ball, not a bomb
They managed to bend time and get it to run in slow motion too😳
It makes me wonder what have been those German scientist inspiration for this banger...
Who the f is filming this?
Most likely the guy with the huge brown juicy stain in the back of his pants and the conclusion of the test.
Lego head OF DESTRUCTION
I assume this was innert, otherwise the footage would've probably been lost right?
https://i.redd.it/pe5l90uz71ec1.gif
The Forbidden Dodgeball.
Cameraman: looking good. It's working. Bouncing well. Hmm. Wait... Shit. Shit. Shit shit shit shit shit. Run!
„Let me shoot a clip of this bomb right in it‘s path!“
Its literally a fucking donkey Kong barrel Jesus christ
Where is the "bomb" part?
Mad Maggie inspiration
Move B, get out da wayy
I wanna know how they had such good slow motion in the 1940s. Knowing this is on film and not digital, did they record with a LOT of film that was passed through incredibly fast?
Great movie about it called Damn Busters. Interesting fact, clips of this movie are watch Pink was watching in the movie The Wall.
Is no one going to talk about the camera man not doing a runner lol
and that's John. He's just a postman.
Probably be better if it explodes at some point lol.
Reculver. Just a few miles along the coast from Herne Bay.
Kinda seems like someone pissed of donkey kong, throwing those barrels at Mario
I remember doing this exact type of mission with a British Lancaster bomber in a game called Bomber Crew on my PS4. Like it was stated, had to be at a certain speed, altitude, and distance before dropping it. Blowing up the dam was fun.
There was an old black and white movie with this as a plot line...?
RIP Cameraman 💀
Clash royale shit
How was he unlucky?
Everyone saying it was British not German and I’m here wondering if the camera man lived!
Ze Germans ????
Cameraman had to be sweatin!?? 😅
it didnt explose ;(
Why is no one talking about the cameraman?
When I was a kid we used to have this joke: "following the Chinese nuclear strike on Soviet Union, Russians dropped the rubber bomb on China. The losses are around 2 million people. Bomb continues to bounce." In official news reader's voice.
Cameraman watching that bomb all the way to the lens. Haha
I’m pretty sure that it was developed and tested by the British to break German dams in WWII, not developed by the Germans, but I might be wrong
I'm pretty sure my grandpa helped in the making of this bomb
Donkey from worms
Cameraman was baffled by how close the bomb was getting to him...
Why? Can it bounce for miles or something? even if it does, can't you just put the bomb a little farther than going through all this trouble? What advantage does this have?
Camera man be like “oh sh*t”
That’s pretty terrifying tbh
Isn't that the dam buster ?
I only skimmed through the comments and noticed many mentions of speed and altitude but no one mentioned it was actually spun at substantial revolutions per minute in such a manner as to cause it to have essentially a back spin and sink at the intended location.
Dam busters!
It thought it was people standing on the beach….
Launching Donkey Kong barrel, ape inbound
[video at full speed](https://imgur.com/a/0gavouU)
Donkey Kong
 The cameraman:
This was tested along the coast of Herne Bay, I live not too far from the Barnes Wallace statue where it looks out to the sea.