"Friendly fire will not be tolerated"-call of duty

I couldn't even imagine what that maintenance worker must have felt when he dropped that wrench. It probably still haunts him to this day.

Imagine how that one dude who dropped the socket that led to that disaster felt and still feels to this day if he's still alive. 😓

My guy doing some laps to calm down 🏃 3:01

Should have included the crash of the USS Akron as a dishonorable mention. Happened during interwar years but it was a Naval failure (fully avoidable) and the airship crash with the highest fatalities, surpassing even the Hindenburg and R101

If the Navy lists a lost submarine as "on eternal patrol" the families of those submariners should get a paycheck until the family line ends.

Master Oogway: Accidents don’t exist. Theodore Roosevelt: You should be ashamed of your military honor!

I feel like the Trojan horse was the biggest accident in war, imagine taking in what you think is a victory trophy only for it to let out an army.

You should put "American" in the title

War itself is the biggest accident of all.....

Any sea vessel with 'Titan' in it's name is doomed to sink.

3:56 Who would win? A 42 ton war machine *H E D G E*

last time I was this early, we had no war

Your honor, my client pleads Oppies Daisy.

Battle of Karansebes. Only recorded instance of an army defeating itself in battle.

Simple History can you do a Simple History video on The Most Disloyal and Treacherous Double Agents.

THE BIGGEST ACCIDENTS IN WAR❌ THE BIGGEST ACCIDENTS IN USA✅ There you go...

I'd like a video on the 1996 Black Hawke helicopter collision just outside of Townsville Australia

Thank you for more history videos!

Thanks Simple History for this interesting video. It really pains me how these incidents can take place in multiple ways like the Sultana, Operation Cobra, Operation Eagle Claw, the sinking of the USS Thresher and many more. It pains me especially for all the lives that were lost😔.

Not a mention of the Deadliest Fart accident of 1985. Varshaw Pact. Occured after the consumption of dubious cans of beef and beans by an entire company . The horor still lingers since the entire compound is still abandoned ...

The: "It wasn't me and those doesn't qualify for VA until 20 years passed and this act was signed."

Can you do an episode on the importance of the Anzac forces because the kind of just were forgotten about and they did a lot and fought a lot and they don’t get a lot of attention

Loved this episode, especially the animations.

Keep it stupid simple.

3:09 you all know where this, is going, the titan sub got destroyed by a catastrophic implosion and the thresher sank due to some balast tanks or flooding that led it to the crush depth

The goldeneye inflated phonebox at the start is a beautiful little touch 👌

I love these videos!

15:03 I don’t know if they still do it but when I was a kid, they had a steamboat race sometime in the two weeks leading up to the first Saturday in May for the Kentucky Derby. I think one of them was called the Bell of Louisville. It’s been a long time since I’ve been back to America, at the moment, I currently have no desire to return! Go where your best treated!

Geez that Tehran mission was a dumpster fire

friendlyfire was never friendly

I've got to say: I'm very much enjoying the new format of the cartoon-rendered narrator in these videos. Well... new to me if I've not been very observant.

Chechen war Russian friendly fire from artillery forgot that

:06 nice James Bond Q branch joke with the phone booth. I remember that gag.

Came here expecting to see the Halifax explosion as number one... idk how they missed that...

13:13 - I know I shouldn't laugh, but those little animated people going 🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃 into the water was hilarious

Any mentions on the Black Hawk down incident along with the USS Forrestal fire?

My favorite KZfaqr

Can You Make A Video About Croatian Homeland War?

My dad lived about 10 minutes up the road from the Titan 2 missile when the incident occurred, and my grandmother was an english teacher at the high school about a mile up the road from the entrance to the missile site. She used to tell me about the warhead laying in the ditch.

I remember one accidents that occurred at the outbreak of WWII in Yugoslavia. I don't know it can be categorized as either biggest or smallest accidents. Cause there are no smaller or bigger jobs. There is a thing such as job done well done, and job done badly. Anyhow, back to telling accident. During the outbreak of WWII in Yugoslavia, one German plane such as Messerschmidt Bf 110 C was doing a reconnaissance flight during the foggy weather over Yugoslavia on April 1st 1941 (and it's not an April fool's joke). And that day was a bit foggy. What happened was that the German Bf 110 landed somewhere on Yugoslav airfield instead of in friendly German airfield. The navigator made a mistake since Yugoslav air force had in possession Bf 109's E, and Dornier Do-17 Bombers. The crew surrendered, and they landed by accidentally on the Yugoslav airfield, and the Bf 110 was captured, and repainted (markings were changed to be Yugoslav 110). Five days later war begun in Yugoslavia, to other Yugoslav airfields wasn't reported that the Bf 110 was captured. And it was shot down by Yugoslav flak, also by accident. Also when there was a revenge attack of Yugoslav bomber crew. Cause the capital city Belgrade suffered a bombing on April 6th 1941, Yugoslav bomber crew decided to do the revenge bombing for Belgrade. They bombed Vienna, and Graz, and they made a big delays to advancing German army. Believe it or not Yugoslav air force had markings such as white cross with red, and blue insignia. And since the airplanes were moving, the Germans thought that these were their airplanes. This can be probably treated as either accident, or probably as a deception, but maybe even as both things. But I'm not here to judge about that.

I like how there's an attempt to teach us something from each of these mistakes

I'm kinda surprised he didn't talk about the crew of the Willy D. Porter the ship that almost sank the Iowa and killed the president

I worked for a company that builds the submarines for the Navy. During orientation we had to listen to the USS Thresher implode. Very scary sound

Exactly.

Hedge rows are not "planted by farmers". They grow naturally in an ares not plowed every year.

It’s just a prank bro

Very good job dudes and well done!! Congratulations 994.4% yo. Boffo work by 450 bonus points. Should have included the crash of the USS Akron as a dishonorable mention. Happened during interwar years but it was a Naval failure (fully avoidable) and the airship crash with the highest fatalities, surpassing even the Hindenburg and R101.

The worst accident ive ever heard of was on the queen Mary they have a plaque to those who died on the ship and one was a sailer who was killed by being crushed in half in an airlock door

Мне было интересно посмотреть, спасибо.

No mentions of the 37 pings from uss thresher? From the de-classified document?

Its crush depth , not collapse depth

Does anyone know what program is used to create the animation used?

Wow thats ridiculous

If that General had been doing his job instead of going to the theatre then maybe he would have survived!!!

The thumbnail is relatable. One of my mates stubbed his toe on a bed frame and went ‘shi-‘ and an officer walked through the door for a room inspection. It quickly changed to ‘Schmidt’, which given his name was Smith, became my mates nickname for the rest of the time I knew him.

I live in Arkansas and remember that one fondly. Surprised you didn't mention the possibility of what would have happened if the nuke did explode. Some reports estimate that 2/3rds of the US would have been demolished

About the theaser. When they tried to EMBT blow the valves froze due to the cold air causing water to condense. Now on subs we drain those valves to make sure theres no water in the system.

Scariest part about thresher is that those guys were still alive for a long time, iirc at least 45 minutes. They sent out active sonar pings in a last ditch effort to be rescued. I cannot imagine the dread those sailors faced, knowing that there was absolutely nothing they could do. This wasn’t like the titan, it wasn’t fast. It wasn’t unexpected. They had to sit and wait until the hull caved in.

@Simple History please do missions from Sri Lanka Military

There is a book about Damascus missile incident and nuclear weapon safety as a whole - Command and Control. Full of funny stories about atomic bombs falling out of planes or activating by a mistake, enjoyable reading. Its a miracle that there wasnt a single nuclear explosion considering amount of these mishaps. Highly recommending

"Whoops!" is the worst word to hear during a war! 😅

Out of all people, how have you not done a video on isonzo yet😭

I liked the little fun fact about steam boat racing, I had no idea, but it sounds really interesting:3

history nerds unite

Steamboat racing was not a competitive sports. The captains raced each other to reach the port first to get the cargo.

Make Pizza 🍕 not war!

So, can you do the video about Audie Murphy in WW2 or Vo Nguyen Giap and the Australian SASR in the Vietnam War? They have good stories behind it.

I love history

Also a British King blew himself up with a cannon. Cant remember which one...

1:56 Nah , he was refering to his superior officer

0:28 oh hello Dr. Kleiner.

5:40 The B-29's are coming from the opposite direction of the U.S. position, but then right after you state "they dropped too soon and hit the American lines". Unless everything is backwards, you mean "dropped too late". Also, do the nuclear engineer guys have lanyards or magnetic hands for their tools? How is it deemed a freak accident when someone drops something!? Some people drop their phones every 5 minutes!

The air rushing they were blowing the ballast tanks filling up with air rapidly but there was moisture in her air tanks and in her air systems and releasing pressurized air really fast drops the temperature so the moisture froze and clog the pipes she sank out because of that and imploded I had to lean this when going into submarines. I was a machinist mate auxiliary fireman

Kiss in swedis is urrien 11:08

Don’t blame Bradley blame the Airforce for not following instructions. Happen in Vietnam with helicopters and planes not wanting to follow instructions from the ground an adrenaline rush .

The 1980 Titan 2 missile disaster in Arkansas wasn't the first time when the U.S. almost nuked itself because of an accident. A Mark 39 hydrogen bomb with a 3.8 megaton explosive yield was ejected from a B-52 bomber that broke apart in mid-air over North Carolina in 1961. When the bomb was recovered on the ground, it was only one safety switch away from detonating.

So to sum up the Titan, its a pringles can with some coke in the bottom and someone dropped their mentos making it explode alllllll over the place

2:42 we don’t really consider how deep the ocean can get: For most of humanity, we’re stuck on the surface. Imagine having 1.3 miles of ocean above one’s head??

Friendly Fire Isn't

Fun fact KISS is also a simple programming rule!

Why there wasn’t tool tethering protocols for working on a nuke blows my mind

75 comments Is underrated

You guys forgot the friendly fire incident that happened during the initial stages of the invasion of Sicily in World War III. I don’t remember the exact specifics, but basically the anti-aircraft gunners on board the various landing ships and all that we’re extremely jumpy because of the events that were transpiring. And the majority of them were brand new to combat so yeah. When an allied aerial column of C4 sevens began flying overhead. The gunners thought they were enemy, bombers, and panicked. They then started firing up at the aircraft which resulted in I believe it was 20 something planes were shot down. A greater number were severely damaged. Roughly 88 American servicemen were killed with almost 2 or three times that much being wounded and I believe 60 or so were listed as missing. This is actually why in Normandy all aircraft that we’re going to take place in the invasion we’re painted with those black and white wing stripes. This was so allied gunners on the ground could see at a glance whether or not the aircraft was an allied one or axis.

Who does the voice over?

The Missile Silo Accident is Crazy, I’ve never heard of this Story Until Now, it’s a Good thing nobody was Killed😬

The thresher was the lead ship in the class so it was going to be the thresher class but when she sank her sister ship became the class name

#Goose #Maverick #Iceman @8:26

multi million nuclear missle vs 1 worker with some butterfingers

Wasn't the Titan explosion caused by a laser firing satellite controlled by Blofeld?

There must be some bigger accidents outside of the USA though , come on

Operation Cobra killed General McNair, his death was catastrophic for the Germans

As I recall ever since the failure of Operation Eagle Claw USOCOM was founded

The biggest accident in the war is having the war itself

Worst accident in war: them even happening

Atleast Operation Cobra is not a failure, I still considered a success despite the "fracture side" incident between Army Air corps/ Eighth Air force and the Army

Mom said i was an accident 😂😂😂

maybe 900 was the temperature of the reactor

The worst example was the fourth one. I'm surprised it's not more well-known or discussed.

Maybe some temporary protection is needed for possible falls a wrench