https://www.pt-boat.com/20mmcanon/20mm.html 2025-05-05T06:31:22+00:00 monthly 0.8000 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W7qExnBNWJk/mqdefault.jpg Naval Legends: Oerlikon | World of Warships 📖 Historical ships in the game 👉 https://wo.ws/3kAwWlZ 🔔 https://www.youtube.com/@WorldofWarshipsOfficialChannel The Allies produced over 300,000 of the Swiss-designed Oerlikon Gun and mounted dozens on their ships. See how World War II gun crews used this fearsome anti-air mount to fill the air with a storm of metal! Naval Legends is a series about the construction, service, and daring deeds of legendary 20th-century ships. Series playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVmXzlhZvJVRRcfxJ_xabjXGGDvd4RBzd Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6tL95G3ZD_JLUrn52JM_7w/join ⚓⚓⚓ Keep an eye out on the official World of Warships website: https://wo.ws/website Follow us on https://www.youtube.com/user/worldofwarshipscom https://discord.gg/wows https://www.facebook.com/WorldOfWarships https://www.twitch.tv/worldofwarships https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfWarships/ https://www.instagram.com/worldofwarships/ https://www.tiktok.com/@worldofwarships https://twitter.com/worldofwarships 2017-08-24T16:05:21Z https://www.youtube.com/embed/W7qExnBNWJk 637 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6yCxITYzW-0/mqdefault.jpg Four Fun Facts about the Oerlikon 20mm Antiaircraft Cannon! Sold for $23,000 (transferrable). The 20mm Oerlikon automatic cannon was a mainstay of United States naval air defense during World War 2, and today we will look at a few of the characteristics and questions that apply to this sort of automatic cannon but not to typical small arms. Like, for instance, how do you cock a gun that has a 400 pound recoil spring? Or, what happens if you fire a high explosive shell into your muzzle cover? http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http://shop.bbtv.com/collections/forgotten-weapons If you enjoy Forgotten Weapons, check out its sister channel, InRangeTV! http://www.youtube.com/InRangeTVShow 2017-04-13T17:00:01Z https://www.youtube.com/embed/6yCxITYzW-0 420 https://www.pt-boat.com/bofors40mm/bofors.html 2025-05-21T05:08:50+00:00 monthly 0.8000 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TqM1PS1YTo0/mqdefault.jpg Naval Legends: Bofors | World of Warships 📖 Historical ships in the game 👉 https://wo.ws/3kAwWlZ 🔔 https://www.youtube.com/@WorldofWarshipsOfficialChannel Instead of a ship, this time we are discussing a truly global weapon. The Swedish Bofors L60 has served as the antiaircraft gun of choice for countless nations. Naval Legends is a series about the construction, service, and daring deeds of legendary 20th-century ships. Series playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVmXzlhZvJVRRcfxJ_xabjXGGDvd4RBzd Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6tL95G3ZD_JLUrn52JM_7w/join ⚓⚓⚓ Keep an eye out on the official World of Warships website: https://wo.ws/website Follow us on https://www.youtube.com/user/worldofwarshipscom https://discord.gg/wows https://www.facebook.com/WorldOfWarships https://www.twitch.tv/worldofwarships https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfWarships/ https://www.instagram.com/worldofwarships/ https://www.tiktok.com/@worldofwarships https://twitter.com/worldofwarships 2017-03-23T13:00:04Z https://www.youtube.com/embed/TqM1PS1YTo0 775 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7dJDn5F1GQk/mqdefault.jpg Swedish Antiaircraft Artillery: Bofors 40mm Automatic Gun M1 Note: In the video I mistakenly describe this as a two-stamp NFA gun. It is actually deactivated, and thus does not require a tax stamp. Sorry for the mistake! http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons The Swedish Bofors company developed their 40mm antiaircraft gun in the 1930s, and it would go on to be one of the most successful weapon designs in modern history. Used by both sides in WWII and in all theaters, improved versions of the 40mm Bofors gun continue to serve in military front lines to this very day. In the US, they comprise part of the armament on the AC-130 Spectre gunships, for example. This particular gun is a WW2 vintage piece, made in Sweden. Most of the examples used by the United States were made under license by Chrysler, the car company. Something like 60,000 were produced during the war, mostly for naval use. These guns would be a mainstay of American vessels' air defense against Japanese Kamikaze attacks. 2018-08-24T12:39:01Z https://www.youtube.com/embed/7dJDn5F1GQk 830 https://www.pt-boat.com/links.html 2026-03-31T04:33:02+00:00 monthly 0.8000 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GK620MQdjsQ/mqdefault.jpg What's it like to live and work on PT-305? Join crew members Kali and Josh as they explore the crew's living quarters of PT-305. See where the crew slept, socialized, and cooked while on patrol and even learn what a ship's "head" is. This is the second of four segments on PT-305. Tune into to the other segments to discover more about the boat: Segment One: Welcome aboard PT-305 https://youtu.be/8aPnKHsE9Zw Segment Three: How does PT-305 operate? https://youtu.be/x0cr3wt-OxE Segment Four: Take a Ride on PT-305 https://youtu.be/akmM2w_0FpY This program is made possible through the generous support of Valor Healthcare. 2020-11-12T20:12:50Z https://www.youtube.com/embed/GK620MQdjsQ 219 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vZ_xOY1cPTo/mqdefault.jpg The Plywood Derby: The Birth of the PT Boat. 1941 saw the US Navy set a clear course in it's acquisition of Motor Torpedo Boats, or PT boats, but this wasn't an easy decision. There were many private boat yards competing for contracts, and the Navy had ideas of their own. This struggle culminated in a nine-way shootout for the top honors, which became known as The Plywood Derby. The outcome would be the decision on who among ELCO, Higgins and Huckins got to build the PT boats that would serve in WW2, and how many. Chapters: 0:00 Prologue 0:25 Interwar development 3:11 The Contest 7:29 The Contestants 10:42 The Plywood Derby 16:06 Aftermath 18:03 Epilog Music credits: Stars and Laurels, Voyage of Discovery, Climb and Faded Dream by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com #plywoodderby #packard #ptboat 2022-05-12T23:00:28Z https://www.youtube.com/embed/vZ_xOY1cPTo 1223 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Y3leTYmAiWM/mqdefault.jpg The Packard V-12 PT Boat Engine Everyone knows the WW2 PT boat was a rocketship, and that it was powered with big, beefy engines. What many are unclear on is exactly what they were, and where they came from. In this video we go through the development history of the Packard M-2500 series of engines, and common misconceptions as to what they were. No monkeys were harmed in the making of this video. Chapters 0:00 Start 1:53 Liberty L12 engine 4:33 Packard 1A-2500 8:00 Packard 1M-2500 marine engine Sincere thanks to Randy 'Motor Mac' Smith for the video clip of a 4M engine starting up. 2022-05-06T12:51:55Z https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y3leTYmAiWM 822 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8d7bGQgUOXA/mqdefault.jpg Schnellboot S130. This is the story of S-130, the last surviving German E-Boat from WWII… Statement from Kevin Wheatcroft Since a young boy, I’ve had a fascination with S-boats and had always kept my eyes open and followed leads and stories to try and track one down. I then became aware of the story surrounding the survival of S130, her own history is an amazing read in its own right. One of the longest surviving naval craft in continuous use, her involvement in Exercise Tiger, involvement in D-Day itself and then ending the war with dignity running mercy missions to bring back women, children and the wounded from the East, her then involvement with the Royal Navy eventually being handed over to MI5 as a spy boat, her being used for the testing and the development of various engines including the legendary Napier Deltic diesel, her eventually being given back to the newly formed West German Navy as their first ever fast patrol boat. Then, with old age, she was pensioned off as a houseboat, sunk in shallow waters (twice!), and then being rescued by the British Military Power Boat Trust before being acquired by The Wheatcroft Collection. Then followed a 10-year search to find original engines, propellers, armoured bridge, multiple gun platforms, torpedo tubes, torpedoes, sea mines, depth charges. As well as a huge array of below decks equipment, radios, ships galley equipment, binoculars, small arms, helmets, life preserves etc etc. She was eventually pulled out of the water in 2009 where she was stripped of all her post war modifications, her planking partially stripped to assess the condition of the hull. We then constructed and fitted a new keel and purchased all the necessary materials for the future restoration. The next episode in her career before restoration commenced, was to find her a permanent home. Considering we live on an island, the UK had very few dry docks on offer. We eventually tracked one down and after prolonged negotiations, we purchased Richmond Dock at Appledore in Devon. Following its successful purchase, a four-year operation with the local authorities, the Environment Agency, the Crown, and a huge investment in drawings and visuals, we are now in a position (hopefully having satisfied all of the above authority’s questions), to submit for planning permission. I’ve no idea how long this process will take, but on the assumption that we get planning, which indications show we will, we then embark on the restoration of the dry dock and construction of S130’s new permanent home. It is then intended, when we have our completion date for the docks build process, is to immediately start the restoration of S130 herself. The plan being, that both the dock and the boat taking about the same period of time to complete. S130, once having completed her sea trials, will come home to her permanent residence. It is then intended to have general public open days and private bookings to view. We will then set up a crew and she will be available for private charter giving everybody the opportunity to step aboard and live life as a German sailor would have done in S130’s heyday. A number of voyages have already been planned, such as a mass poppy drop at the exact location of the wreckage of what remains of Exercise Tiger. She will then return to the site of Schlichting motor vessel works, as a tribute to the families of those who built her. She will then return to her former wartime home of Cherbourg and La Rochelle. All these opportunities will be made available to those who share the same passion. To date The Wheatcroft Collection has invested over £3.5m, with a further £1.8m earmarked for construction work. We are now offering the opportunity for people to become involved in the next chapter of this exciting journey by joining S130’s fund raising subscription platform which is due to be launched in 6 weeks. Your involvement will enable the boat to be rebuilt. We intend to match fund every penny raised, this will form a trust fund enabling S130 to live on beyond me as a revenue earning historic craft for generations to come. THIS VIDEO AND CONTENTS… Kevin Wheatcroft©️2024 and #TheWheatcroftCollection©️2024 Hosted by #Ceevisk on behalf of #ExerciseTigerMemorial.Co.UK and Laurie Bolton - Administrator@ http://www.exercisetigermemorial.co.uk/ The attached video was made by our friends at Wargaming / https://www.facebook.com/WorldOfWarships. We would also like to thank our media partners at NavalHistoria and MilitaryHistoria. Enjoy. Thanks for following and see you Tuesday, Kevin, Alex, Bismarck and the team. 2024-06-03T17:44:41Z https://www.youtube.com/embed/8d7bGQgUOXA 976