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The British Plane That SAWED U-Boats In Half

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In a factory in south-east London, engineers built machines that fed one small object at a time into a chamber, once a second, without a human hand. The objects were cigarettes. By 1943 the same mechanism was feeding six-pound armour-piercing shot into a gun bolted into the nose of a wooden aeroplane. That aeroplane was the de Havilland Mosquito — the machine famous for carrying no armour and outrunning everything sent to catch it. This version carried nine hundred pounds of steel plate, and it couldn't outrun anything, because to fire it had to hold a straight, shallow dive for thousands of yards while men shot back. The entire reason the aircraft existed had already been cancelled — seven months earlier, by the enemy it was built to kill. Nobody in Britain knew it. In this video: Why a cigarette machinery company ended up designing the auto-loader for a naval and air force gun — and why Desmond Molins received the American Medal of Freedom for it What happened when the first firing trials sheared rivets loose in a wooden aircraft's fuselage, and how they solved recoil by armoring a plane designed around having none Why armoring the cockpit floor and stripping out the internal fuel tanks was the aircraft confessing what it had become The exact twenty-second attack profile the gun demanded — straight, level, wings unmoving, into gunfire — and what that meant for the Mosquito's entire survival doctrine What happened over La Pallice on March 25th, 1944, when U-976 went down within sight of her own coast Why Karl Dönitz's fight-back order, which the Tsetse was built to punish, had already been cancelled two months before the aircraft flew its first operational sortie What the schnorchel mast did to the entire premise of a gun built to shoot submarines on the surface Why the Air Ministry ultimately chose a rocket six times less accurate over a gun that actually worked — and what that decision says about building weapons around one enemy habit What became of the aircraft, the gun, and the auto-loader after the war — and why the mechanism is still running today, just not aimed at anything Nobody in this story was a fool. The bargain was struck with habits. Habits changed. Was the Tsetse a brilliant answer to a question that had already been withdrawn, or exactly the right thing to build with what London knew in 1943? Leave a comment. Like the video and subscribe. #MosquitoTsetse #WWIIHistory #RAFHistory #DeHavillandMosquito #UBoatWarfare #WWII #MilitaryHistory #AviationHistory #ForgottenHistory #BattleOfTheAtlantic

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