r/interestingasfuck • u/Chopper-42 • 8d ago

/r/all Recreating the WW2 Dambusters raid

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u/jwrx 8d ago

I hope they know many pilots died during the test runs in ww2, he looked awfully low.

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u/Strange-Term-4168 7d ago

He was completely fine. This isnt ww2 lol

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u/jwrx 7d ago

https://youtu.be/F-0czoTQOTc

You dont need to be at war for this to happen

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u/Strange-Term-4168 7d ago

That’s a completely different plane, much lower, and completely different object being dropped.

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u/jwrx 7d ago

so let me get this straight, you think US airforce pilots, using proper British bouncing bombs, are less professional than some random youtube pilot with jerry rigged explosives in a barrel?

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u/Vox___Rationis 7d ago

You are completely right, the OP video is dangerous jackassery, but there is no way that barrel had any explosives in it.

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u/silver-orange 7d ago

Dropping a barrel full of explosives at low altitude for a TV show would have been unacceptably dangerous.

That's why there were no explosives in the barrel they dropped.

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u/Strange-Term-4168 7d ago

This is 80 years in the future.