1) Open canopy 2) Throw away MG 3) Stand up 4) Unleash flamethrower 5) Apply sunglasses

So I see you are sick of me repeatedly asking "What does this do!" while in a dog fight.

that music,... it's Luftwaffe NOT Loungewaffel

There is an amazing book in Swedish on the bf110 written by the Grandson of Wolfgang Thimmig a bf110 Ace witch spent most of the war as a night fighter with his brother as gunner. The book is filled with pictures they took during the war up in the air and of their free time at base even their different diplomas for winning certain medals one of them signed by Mr fatty doo doo him self aka Hermann Göring. Anyway it's got tons of interesting notes about the the different models of bf110s he flew written down by Wolfgang him self during ww2 and several deep descriptions of the victories he scored. A literal translation of the books title to English would be "Night Hunters" Hope it gets published in more languages.

Recycling bins for ammo drums. Because ve have to take care of Mutter Erde, ja?

"significant emotional event" i see someone enjoys the Chieftains videos :D

Now I'm curious if a gunner ever got a kill by tossing drum magazines at an enemy pursuer Hanz: "FUCK! I'VE RUN OUT OF AMMO!" Yankee: "I've got you now- what the fuc-?!" *MG15 drum mag smashes into propellers*

Excellent graphics and commentary. Thank you!

"Why are we sitting in the gunner position?" And more importantly, why don't we have legs?! Or.. a body?

For those of you wondering about the "saddle drum" operation. There is no linked belt feed that is typical for a machine gun. The individual rounds that are stacked in the drums are pushed through the spiral feed path built into each drum by a spring that unwinds from the center of each drum. Both drums feed the weapon in a alternating manner, right drum, then left drum, repeat until drums are empty. The MG 15 could empty a saddle drum in about 5 seconds of continuous fire.

As a m240 gunner in the army I use to count the bursts not the rounds. I had a fairly constant 6-7 round burst per trigger pull. So approximately 15-16 trigger pulls for a 100 round belt. You get pretty consistent with training. Just like the drum on the top weapon we would us visual just for a backup.

Fascinating. You exceed expectations. Your videos always seem to cover something I have always been interested in.

Not gonna lie, kind of want to fly a bf110 in real life. If I ever win the lottery I'm totally having one built hahaha.

"... so you open this handle... ZACK!" Großartig!

30 seconds with a lecture on the gunner’s seat. That’s all I needed 👍

That was actually incredibly interesting! Thanks a lot for that!

One benefit not mentioned about having that rear gun was that it could be removed - if the plane survived a crash - and taken along by the surviving crew to be used as a weapon.

There's something just so delightfully German about how intricate and space efficient that ammo feed and empty bin is. US gunners got a burlap sack, if they were lucky

Hi, Bismarck. At 5:30, it's called a 'saddle drum'. It's basically a circular magazine, no belts used. A modern example would be the Beta C-mag. The Luger had something similar called the snail drum.

Amazing vid. thanks for letting us know!!!

LOVE your videos! Fast becoming one of my favorite channels.... would be very interested to see a similar video of the 110 or other German night fighter aircraft with the inclusion of onboard radar. Always been fascinated and mystified how that operated. Keep up the great work!

Im growing to love your videos!!!! and i've been learning german for quite a while, and its nice to hear different people speak and pronounce things. i would love to play a few games with you someday! keep it up! :)

Those ammo drums were nicknamed Schneckentrommel.

Don't often see that part of aircraft. Gives good impression of what the gunner /observer did. Didn't know that he could reload cannon. Interesting video, thanks.

Being german really gives you the best experience watching your videos. Nice video. Its older but still very informative.👍

This is my favorite plane to fly in IL-2. It's great to know more about it!

super helpful! Thanks man!

Keep thinking of those carefree candidates who applied for pilot training and was accepted by the Luftwaffe, but to their dismay later found themselves training as gunners at the flight school. What a fall.

Great video bro just great, diferent but still interesting. Thanks for info videos like this :-)

Should totally throw the drum at the enemy aircraft to confuse them or something. For the cost of possibly hitting the rudder.

Great educational video. thanks a lot!

I wish you showed us this while you were flying. Now I really want to see a video of you being a proper gunner/spotter!

Very interesting - the design has been well thought through - stating the obvious.

Deine Videos sind sehr informativ und extrem interessant! :D Weiter so ^^

Recycling actually was a virtue in ww2 Germany...... In fact they were the first regime to implement environmental protection laws on companies and factories, national parks, animal cruelty laws (hitler was very serious about animal cruelty and laws against it), and other conservation ordinances even before the war broke out.

Thanks. Interesting to learn about these less well known military stuff like gunners positions in aircraft.

Beautiful work my friend! good content and we'll presented. I've know a few people from Germany in my life and your English is really good my friend!

A step by step tutorial on the BF 110 gunner simplified 1: open cockpit 2:throw away Mg-15 3:use panzershreck 4: look for communists

Great vids! Thanks.

Thanks Bis! Like these educational vids.

Great vid. 👍🏻

Can't wait for your video about the ball gunner on the B-17.

Great video! Keep up the good wri!

Hallo - vielen Dank für die ausführliche „Einweisung“- mein Großonkel war Bordschütze auf der BF-110 - ich war noch recht klein als er mir von seiner Zeit auf der BF-110 erzählte- selbst heute Berufspilot, ist es sehr interessant für mich zu sehen wie das Cockpit des ersten fliegenden Familienmitgliedes im Detail ausgesehen - und wie es funktioniert hat! Danke und gute Flüge!

Another great and informative vid...danke Bismarck

Love your talks Bismarck!

thanks for the video.

So. I just realized the MG-15 inspired a star wars blaster, like the MG-42 or the STG44/AK-47 did

Love the work and videos. What about maybe a video like this pt2, to fighting/flying as a tail Gunner?

thank you, well done

thank you. quite comprehensive.

Can you please, please do more of those videos? Like the cockpit of bf109 or other planes.

This video is so cool!

Cool information. Hope to see some action from the gunner position one day.

Iv got quite the inconsistency to point out with regards to the radio. you said that the EK was the shortwave radio transmitter and the EL was the longwave transmitter however the radios clearly display the frequency that the operate on (3700 khz for EK and 370 Mhz for the EL). Well lets get into the maths. with wavelength = speed of light / frequency and knowing that the speed of light is aprox. 3*10^8 we can calculate the wavelength given these radios frequency: Starting with the shortwave radio running at 3700khz (3.7*10^6 Hz) we find the wavelength to be aprox 81.0m (3*10^8 / 3.7*10^6 = 81.08) Now knowing that the shortwave radio's wavelength is about 81m lets do the calculations for the long wave, The longwave uses a frequency of 370Mhz which is 3.7*10^8 Hz therefore: 3*10^8/3.7*10^8 = 0.81m wavelength. This shows that using the frequencies used in game the long wave actually has the shorter wavelength and vice versa. Now im not sure if this is a minor translation error or if its a mistake on the developers part but i just thought it's worth mentioning. Also i'm probably sad AF for noticing this immediately. Edit: I made a typo.

I just subscribed...you're just shy of 100.000 subscribers...keep up the fantastic work and you'll soon have 250.000 ubs...

The technical term for the little holes in the ammo magazine that let you see if there are bullets or not is "witness holes." The ammo is pushed along the inside of the drum by a spring and isn't on a belt, so you'd just call that part the ammo drum.

Idle thought....might the gunner have to be careful not to shoot out the tail fins??

Thanks!

I like old planes.

Really good video Bismarck! Have you made a video of your Keybindings? If you havn't I would love to see one ^^. Cheers!

NO BACK REST??? Willi Messerschmitt, you cruel SOB!!!

nice video, please make more with other planes. I would love to watch more

Like drinking from a FireHose of interesting detailed information! Jeesh the world was complicated in WW2! Thanks!

The 2 steps to becoming a german gunner: 1. Be born german 2. Be placed behind a working and loaded gun. Congratulations! You made it!

I really enjoy that there is is a fancy trash bin for the empty ammo drums.

The transistor has shrunk radios tremendously. You can fit everything in between the radio's controls.

What a death trip! I can only imagine what the gunner was thinking, when an American P51 Mustang attacked with 50cals blazing.

5:33 This is a Brezel! At least I call it that...

Bismarck you are rilly good at german.

fascinating how Germany had sussed out the VHF,HF comms. I hadn't realised that. 80 years later and although they are smaller sets nowadays we still cannot combine both. I remember using a vhf set and using a barbed wire fence as an antenna to talk to someone on Hohne ranges from Yorkshire. Clever stuff.

Great! I needed this video. Something useful to do since im unable to land any fucking plane in this game.

nice jazz in the background

Hey, could you please do a video on how to read Lichtenstein radar?

i see the il2 game has more detail than war thunder

...I like these videos, you should do one on the Messerschmidt me 163... ...(it's not that difficult to recreate the me163's mission profile (high speed interceptor)...

One day, they'll make a game with a functioning Morse key… :D

I'm reminded of talking to a german veteran about being an instructor pilot for Me-110. He told me of his last flight....He told the student to land...He...sitting behind...didn't see the student's action. When aircraft "touched down " He was informed via sliding on the field. Came to a stop by the body passed between two trees leaving the wings behind. He was furious and fed up and told his supiriors "HE QUITED"...Was given a ground job.

5:35 It's a snail drum. That particular one is a double snail drum.

The drums that have the belts that go around I believe are known as snail drum magazines.

"You have exceeded expectations" "Then expectations were not high enough" Typisch (typically) Gerrman.

Fun fact, the MG15 was so called as Germany wasn’t meant to be developing or making any new machine guns, so calling it the MG26 would have been a giveaway.

PLEASE BRING MORE GAMEPLAY BISMARCK I LOVE IT WHEN YOU PLAY!!!!

5:45: their called 'drums'. They're also the best large capacity magazine, they combine the capacity of box magazines with the reliability of sickle types. The downside is they're shitty to manufacture, and waste lots of space in shipping.

I really like your videos, mein Herr. Any idea what that half circle window on the right is for? Odd to have asymmetrical canopy glazing unless it has a purpose, nicht wahr?

I have heard this type of ammunition drum referred to as a snail drum because of the spiral method of ammunition storage

Gee, that's one hell of a detailed simulator. I just wonder if I could manage all the necessary controls in there...

My main question: how did you keep from shooting your own tail off in the excitement of battle?

I can't imagine how terribly deafening the wind noise would have been with the gunner's canopy open during flight. Were they designed so that it wouldn't be as bad as I think it would be, or did the Luftwaffe commanders simply tell the gunners to get over it? I remember that the sirens on Stukas initially ran constantly, and it was only after much complaint by pilots that they were redesigned so that their operation was controlled by a switch, so I'm wondering how bad the open canopy would have been.

Can you actually control some of that stuff in game besides the canopy?

Could you do a similar video on how the hell the gunner on the Me 410 works if it's in the game because I have no clue

The technical term for that drum holding the ammo, is 'drum magazine'.

I like that background music :D Und könntest du dir vorstellen auch mal ein neues(es gibt ja schon eins :D) Video zu machen in dem du als Gunner fungierst? Fänd ich auch mal wieder cool. Und was ich auch noch fragen wollte: Hast du schon mal drüber nachgedacht Merch rauszubringen? Wäre der erste der alle Teile hat :D

I wish the defensive gunner's canopy was open in the War Thunder Bf 110, even if it was just in gunner view (for drag reasons). As is its got a very limited field of fire.

Is it Bf 110 or Me 110? Heh heh. Just saw that other vid about 109. I mean Me 109 I mean Bf 109. Really enjoy your channel Bizheim

Liked the video BM. Fly the Bf-110 in Il-2 a lot. One question though. Did they keep all the empty shells in the small bag underneath the gun? And i believe the gunner could also fire the gun without opening the hatch. The arch of fire was limited but it caused less drag.

Any idea how much each one of those radio sending/receiving units weighed?

I have a question, I noticed that the ammo drums seem to be 2 sided but only one side has markings so the gun, presumably, only feeds from the right hand side. If that is the case, then what is the left hand side of the drum for? Is it for collecting the spent shell casings?

hey Bismark, I was wondering If you could do an engine management video? I think It would be Nice for players that are New to flight sims.

I was hoping you would say that the empty ammo canisters were usually thrown at Spitfires... I wonder how much weight would be saved if the gunner and equipment were removed from a 110 and the fuselage redesigned.