First World War tech: Zeppelins
When a German aristocrat Brigadier General Ferdinand Zeppelin retired from the army in 1891, he devoted himself to the study of aeronautics.
His proposals to the government for a lighter-than-air flying machine were rejected in 1894, but nevertheless he would invest all his money into a company producing airships.
By 1898 Zeppelin had constructed his first airship.
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it would have been easier if they had incendiary rounds back then
Prydwen
wish you talked about the l30
Kirov Reporting
Were any used in World War 2?
Please do a Russian empire army and soviet army videos!
I hate the zeppelin on operations….
Still , Why the zeppelins is so hard to take control ? It just a balon , right ?
boom boom boom boom dadadadadadadadadadadada boom
Kirov Reporting
KIROV REPORTING…….
Yeah it wasn't until Zeppelin crashed many of his prototypes that the german militar actually bought them. At first they weren't interested. Also, zeppelins were pretty much worthless in war and pretty crap at bombing because of how fragile they were.
is like balloon Right? 1 shot it fly away like baloon
I shot them down in about ten times. Hype! Good video, btw!
I wanna Whole Lotta Love
Our airship has arrived
I love these videos I wish I could sponsor them but I'm only a kid with no money
SHOOT THE DAMN AIRSHIP!!!
is it true that zeppelin was croatian innovation ?
Battlefield 1???
You can't just put some holes in the gas bags and expect them to fall out of the sky. The had dozens of hydrogen filled gas bags so a few leaking was nothing. The British found you couldn't burn them easily with incendiary bullets because a burning bullet would extinguish after it enters a gas bag since there was no oxygen inside the bag just hydrogen. The technique to shooting them down was to cause a large enough hole in a bag to allow enough oxygen to enable a flame to spread and of course once the burning started then it was out of control very fast.
Every time I see the word Zeppelin, I immediately think of Led Zeppelin
First the zepelins attacked then when theyre shoot down explode…
this blimp was in battlefield 1
Its funny how zeppelins were made before planes xD
So impractical, yet badass.
Behemoth!
I just don't see how they worked, surely a few bullets in this thing and it would go down