I was searching for this video for more than 3 years now. This is one of the first videos I recall watching as a little kid. And I'm still amazed

10 year ago i discover this video... today im working on my first RC ship thanks to it.

This is the first youtube video I remember watching. It just always feels great. Rc ship combat has since been a bis dream of mine

i salute all the brave ships that lost their lives on that fateful day

This really needs to be an Official Sport

Childhood dreams

It's always impressive how big these ships are when you see them high and dry. Just imagine what the real ships must have looked like, at full size!

This was a better click than I thought it would.

* 5 minutes later * “Alright then ... so who is gonna go get those?”

3) Those floats are "emergency floats" and they are attached to the rest of the ship via a string. They help divers locate the sunken ship.

@metrostation136 There are several ways to repair battle damage. Pondside, we simply tape over the holes with blue painter's tape. For more permanent repairs, we cut away the damaged balsa and glue in a fresh piece. A little wood putty, sanding, and painting later, and the hull is as good as new. About once per year, we rip off all the siding and completely re-sheet our ships. Taping takes minutes, patching takes a few hours, and re-sheeting takes about 6 to 8 hours.

9... 8... 7... Oh hell! OPEN FIRE!!!

If only Russia China N. Korea Iran and Trump Could all meet at a local park to resolve world issues just like this !

1:36 When you hit your hip on the corner of a table.

Close, but not quite. We use steel ball bearings, up to 1/4" dia. Aiming and firing is entirely RC controlled using electric motors and low-pressure CO2 pneumatic systems.

They need to put water tight compartments in the hull.

@Mrblaze0505 That is from the ship's bilge pump. When battle damage lets water in, the bilge pump bails it back out. As long as the water floods in slower than the bilge pump can pump, you're OK. Once water is coming in faster than it's going out, it's time to run for shore!

Almost 9 years ago, damn I remember when this first came out.

1:36 sounds like someone is actually dying on that ship.

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no problem. We found out, very early on, that Li-ion batteries explode when wet. We quickly stopped using them. Fortunately, Li-poly are more chemically stable, and the new Li-Fe batteries are almost as indestructible as SLAs.

This hobby is King and never gets old lol

I recover sunken ships by wading or swimming after them. Most ships have an emergency float connected by string to the hull, so you can just follow the string down to the ship and pick it up. All ships are required to use electric motors for propulsion. We're not exactly racing, so that sort of high power is not necessary.

Mini version of World of Warships XP

Wow, We didn't have all the cool radio controls in the sixties so I would launch my model ships and the open fire with my Daisy air rifle. To simulate Battleship guns I would unlimber my 22 rifle.

I'll name the ship after the aircraft carrier my great great uncle worked on in ww2 the name was hms formidable my great great uncle was a pilot and died when crashed into a northern Irish mountain near eglington

Who’s watching this in 2024?

I am thinking of getting into this and have been into radio control cars for a while but now I want to expand and get into ships and this looks like a lot of fun.

These were the same ships Hollywood used to film the movie Pearl Harbor a few years back...I remember them clearly!

thats such a cool hobby/sport, i bet it costs alot to take part in, with all the constant damage that the activity requires one take!

Gotta tell you guys.... this is impressive. Very impressive.

Can't wait for the "look what I found magnet fishing" video of this pond

@bigdawny You'll notice on a lot of the sinking ships there's a part that floats back up. That's the emergency float, and it marks the location of the wreck. You can then swim for it (the pond is never more than 10 feet), or pull the ship up by the string.

@AtLastAtLeast .177" copper bbs are the smallest caliber cannons here, representing destroyer and cruiser pop-guns. For the more powerful stuff like 16" battleship guns and 21" torpedoes, we use up to 1/4" diameter steel balls. When hit, the bbs punch a hole through the ship's balsa wood armor. Water floods in, filling up the ship and sinking it. We do have bilge pumps to keep ships afloat with some damage, but if you take too much you're going for a swim.

I NEED to try this someday!

Most ships have sturdy plywood keel and ribs, with a soft balsa skin on the surface. Some ships are made from fiberglass, but they must have penetrable "windows" cut so that they can compete with the wooden ships.

Alguém 2021 até 9021 ? 🇧🇷Brasil 🇧🇷 Eu assista muito isso quando era criança, bons tempos.

Those holes were caused by a volley of "torpedoes". Basically, 1/4 inch diameter steel ball bearings fired from pneumatic cannons. Battleships use the same type of cannon, but designed to rotate.

yes, we build them. There are a few companies that sell pre-built lifeboats, secondary turrets, and superstructure (the buildings and masts on top of the ship), but most people choose to build their own.

Yes, they are salvagable, and are also useing the "watter guns" to pump the watter out of the hull to keep afloat longr.

None of the ships you see can be purchased in a "ready-to-run" status. Most require a fair amount of work to assemble the various parts, but none of it is really hard. Its not easy to get into this hobby if you're 13, but you can get your parents to help out I'm sure you can get started.

It’s been so long since I’ve seen this

Once your ship sinks, do you lose it, retrieve it? What a great looking sport

I use this video to explain the hobby to people, and it's the video that got me Into the hobby

Wonderful stuff... just wonderful.

I would use .22 short ammo and spring loaded cannons with a camera feed. I'd build my boat out of aluminum too. I'd also build a sub that could fire torpedoes somehow and that had a deck gun.

@Jerbod2 I didn't make them by myself, I had a little help from about 20-30 other people, each of whom built their own ship. Some people used "kits" from fiberglass hulls, but most of us built our ships from a set of plans. It can be a challenge to get started by yourself, so I highly recommend finding your nearest club. Check out the RC Naval Combat forum to do so.

I love this hobby. It looks fun and peaceful and dosent cost billions!

That is the coolest thing I've seen I need to go there and watch that shit badass

I remember watching this when I was 3 to 4 years old. It was my childhood.

I would have done ANYTHING to have had this as a child

On the larger battleships and battlecruisers, the cannons can rotate. Smaller ships like light cruisers and destroyers don't have the space or weight for rotation mechanisms, so they use fixed broadside cannons for close-range engagements. Surprisingly enough, the smaller ships are just as effective as the larger ships, and even more dangerous when they act in squadrons of two or more.

@adsbuckeye3 Very carefully :) Actually, since the sides are soft balsa wood, it is very easy to cut away damaged sections and replace them with fresh wood. After that, a little wood putty and a little paint and it's good as new.

@schelleheli .177" copper bbs are the smallest caliber cannons here, representing destroyer and cruiser pop-guns. For the more powerful stuff like 16" battleship guns and 21" torpedoes, we use up to 1/4" diameter steel ball bearings.

Each of those ships is handmade with plywood and balsa, or from a combat-legal fiberglass hull. Sometimes club members sell used ships, and that is the fastest way to get started. For more information, do a google search for "RC Naval Combat"

at the end of the video they started "salvage operations to the rcs that sunk in this lake" :P

Do you recover these after they sink?A whole new hobby I never even knew existed.Thank you.

Each individual ship is scratchbuilt, although you can buy many of the components (like cannons, hull, radio, etc) prebuilt. You can also usually find a few used ships for sale that are already built and just need a little maintenance to get fighting again.

If I and others in the area had the money and time, this would be the best hobby ever. My dream is to buy several acres, put in race tracks, and airfield, and a pond for this sort of thing. You could be a member and come use it whenever. Power hook ups for charging batteries and a hobby shop to sell supplies. RV hook ups for those who drive a long way to attend large scale events and shows. Have a model building convention a few times a year. Try out the RC stuff before you buy it. Teach flight classes. Hold large event battle like this and races.

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How has it been 14 years

Airsoft and bb are close, but not quite. We actually use steel ball bearings, with different sizes for the different historical guns that ships used.

@Dercommandingofficer The cannons shoot several sizes of steel ball bearings, from .177" bb, up to 1/4" diameter ball bearings. As for how they work, you'll have to ask that on the RC Naval Combat forum where I don't have a 500-character limit.

Depends. An unarmed transport only requires 2 channels, and a torpedo-armed cruiser or destroyer needs 3. Any ship with rotating guns needs a minimum of 4 channels, and additional features like cannon depression require extra channels, so for battleships it's pretty common to use a 6-channel radio.

.177" copper bbs are the smallest caliber cannons here, representing destroyer and cruiser pop-guns. For the more powerful stuff like 16" battleship guns and 21" torpedoes, we use up to 1/4" diameter steel balls. That's almost twice as big as your .177" bb!

@wassupno3 You don't see many in this video, but all ships are equipped with emergency marker floats that help you locate sunken ships. That way we get the best of both worlds: beautiful sinks, and easy recovery afterwards :D

Last ship's version... freakin awesom

Yes, all ships are built to 1:144 scale, 1 inch equals 12 feet. If they weren't all to the same scale, then it'd look rather strange to have a huge destroyer pull up alongside a battleship that's the same size.

@karlene8089 It turns out that fresh water does not harm electronics directly. It causes damage through long-term exposure, via corrosion. As long as you dry out the electronics quickly, they will be just fine. To answer your question, no, my electronics are not "waterproof". They are "quick-drying". Easier to do, and more reliable too.

@sunflowerseeds12able .177" copper bbs are the smallest caliber cannons here, representing destroyer and cruiser pop-guns. For the more powerful stuff like 16" battleship guns and 21" torpedoes, we use up to 1/4" diameter steel balls. That's almost twice as big as your .177" bb!

Each ship is made of a plywood frame and balsa sides. They are armed with one or more CO2 powered cannons. The cannons shoot low-velocity .177" to .25" steel bbs, which are just strong enough to punch through the soft balsa sides of other ships.

@mom352 Those are coming soon. Strike Models has demonstrated prototypes, and is setting up tooling for production before offering them for sale.

@mariopilot808 No. For gameplay purposes, all ships must be sinkable, and that means no compartmentalization. We do allow transport ships to have two watertight bulkheads, but most skippers pass on that ,since they can only pump water from one compartment.

Nostalgia thank you

The ship you're asking about is the Dutch Battlecruiser Von Orange. Historically, the Dutch asked Germany to build them several battlecruisers, but WWII broke out before much progress was made and the resources were re-allocated to more important projects.

If you frow stones near an rc boat it looks like savos that are missing the ship

@vetitoe362 Very carefully. Actually, we have several methods. 1) play in a place where there's few people 2) don't allow cannons to aim above horizontal 3) wear safety glasses at all times

@cannonmann31 I didn't buy any of this, I made it. Or, to be more specific, I only made a few of those ships. If you're interested, though, you can get kits from Strike Models.

1) For starting up, a good estimate is around $1000-$1200. Maintenance is about $50 per year, plus $25 per boat after the first.

Countdown: "10! 9! 8! 7! Oh hell... OPEN FIRE!" Legit what he said lol

Que linda epoca debieron ser pioneros del internet no solo youtube esta buena la idea esa actualmente se seguiria viendo epico y con avanze tecnologico quizas hacerlo mucho mas reales

@Mrblaze0505 Both fiberglass and wooden hulls meet the same penetrability requirements, and they are comparable in terms of strength. The difference is that fiberglass hulls are bought pre-made, while wooden hulls need to be built frame-by-frame. This requires more time and some experience to do well. The benefit, however, is that you can build a wooden hull of any ship, whereas you can only buy fiberglass hulls of ships that places like Strike Models produce.

MGS3 music.. didnt expect that

At an average of $1000 and probably 100 hours of assembly, we do everything we can to salvage ships after a sink. By now, we've gotten pretty good at it. I can literally pick my current ship up out of the water, pour the water out, and sail it back to shore under its own power. Older ships require an alcohol flush with isopryl rubbing alcohol to remove water from the electronics, but after that it's good as new. It usually takes about 1 hour to restore a ship to fighting trip after a sink.

@jam9357 This is the Western Warship Combat Club, in California. All the ships you see in the video were either built by their skippers, or bought used from someone else who built them.

Ship: sinks People: OOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Each ship fires steel ball bearings, up to 1/4 inch diameter. The trick to safety is the penetration test, in which a ship's cannons are fired into a 2 inch block of insulation foam. If shots come out the other side, you turn down the pressure on the guns. If nothing goes all the way through, you're OK. Bilge pumps are allowed, although you are limited to one or two pumps based on class of ship. To sink a ship, you need to inflict enough damage that the bilge pump is overwhelmed.

@MrJJK2010 I don't know about Tampa specifically, but there is a club actively battling in Florida. Ask around on the RC Naval Combat forums and you'll find them.

@mom352 The USS Iowa is dark blue and light gray, with a black waterline and red below the waterline. Its superstructure and decking are held on by gravity.

@catocatocatopie It's always a tough choice: do you stop your ship to reduce flooding, or do you run for shore and hope you can make it? Sometimes the correct answer isn't clear, and other times there is no correct answer.

I been watching this video for years and I just saw that it was made same year and mouth I was born

1:13 Boat:"sinks early" Me"Korihihihhihih"

Yes, those are bilge pumps to help keep the ship afloat and not sink so quickly. Pumps are regulated by club rules and limited in number and capacity. Of course, they don't always work, either, which occasionally causes a ship to sink with embarrassingly little damage.

This is cool. Anyone do old wooden warships for this...? Would be fun to see a mini replay of the battle of Trafalgar or similar.

Thirteen years ago, and i never don't love it.

10th Legion : We almost did the same thing as kids ( 50 yrs ago ) . No remotes , we just put them in the water and bb gunned them. Jutland & Pearl harbor in one .

This would actually be so fun

@catachandevilfang Correct. What you saw is (usually) the ship's emergency marker float, for recovering the wreck later. In a few cases, it's just a piece of unsecured superstructure, though. Needless to say, those ships took a little longer to retrieve.

absolutely not. Since sinking is an important part of the game, we prepare for it ahead of time by protecting sensitive components and preparing to rapidly dry everything after a ship is recovered. Fresh water doesn't actually kill electronics, as long as you don't let rust form, and some ships can be sunk multiple times in a day without ill effect.

World of Warships, pre-digital version!