Russian detective - First World War - Zeppelin Episode

[Ienthill]

Has anyone been able to find English subtitles for this? I have it and I'd love to see it, but I only learned Russian in high school.

[theshoeburger]

Damn, gotta love airship warfare.

[zeppship]

Looks too old for ww1

[DEP717]

You can imagine Russian troops in 1914-1918 coming up against something like that, and not having much of a counter defense.

Russia had some huge Aviation engineers at the time too, notably Sikorsky, as well as some others. They had some huge planes, but not as famous in the west. After the Revolution both Sikorsky and Seversky, as well as some others, went to the US. Seversky helped to develop the WW2 P-47 Thunderbolt fighter in the US, and Sikorsky helped to develop the Helicopter.

[dangar45]

It just makes you glad every time you americans see something foreign got blown up or a country dies. Because your fucking cowboys who just want to ride a zeppelin..

[lookatthewholepictur]

Zeppelin > Mosin Nagant

[inconsistanttruth]

and here we see Dr. egg-man throwing bombs at his foe the Russians

[freeman8128]

I have always found Zeppelins fascinating.

The lowered basket featured was not square but aerodynamically shaped - rather like a bomb or an aeroplane without wings. It was not used for dropping bombs but, linked by telephone to the main craft, used for spotting & navigation. It was lowered below clouds while the Zeppelin remained hidden in or above the cloud.

[Wolfen443]

Oh, wow once they rule the skies over WWI. I miss WWI and its early techonolgy so much. 

[studentjohn36]

Whoever made up the airship in this film took a great deal of artistic(?) liberty. The little winglets amidships? Also an odd tail configuration that Cound Zeppelin's early ships didn't have, any more than Schutte-Lanz' creations did.

[Jjames763]

@Pocketwatch625

I agree. Fucking Nazis. So much for Zeppelins, eugenics and patriotic propaganda. Anyway, what makes you think Zeppelins don't have a strong future? Aeros and others would disagree. And that's just rigid airships. Nonrigid and semirigid airships are just now entering a renaissance, in the form of Hybrid airships. The overwhelming majority are military or cargo ships, but still.

[Jjames763]

@altmusicguy Yes, the 'Height Climbers'. They're my favorite. Some carried fighter planes that they could just drop when in battle. Aside from catapulting Zeppelins from being merely awesome to metal as FUCK, it had an added utility in that the lost weight from the fighter would propel the mothership to unreachable, Himalayan heights... Unfortunately for the fighter ace, who was abandoned above the enemy.

[Jjames763]

@Pocketwatch625

To be fair, planes of the era were also disaster-prone. Early Zeppelins flew at such high altitudes, their primitive construction couldn't handle the extreme cold and sparse oxygen. They would get lost too. However, for a long time bullets, artillery and even planes couldn't reach them. Also, to defend their Hydrogen, they were armed with as many as 24 AA turrets.

[sanddemon96]

how did they make this? if its not by a company?

[Subderhenge]

I would be really scared if this huge thing came out of the sky and bombed the shit out of everything.

[6missiles]

KIROV REPORTING

[DreamFireNostalgia]

i love Zeppelins! they inspire awe! and they actually could dish out a lot of damage! in fact i do believe the weather brought down more zeppelins than other people did. (correct me if im wrong) . still WWI air combat just fills me with..awe......i wish i could fly...heh

[Pocketwatch625]

@DreamFireNostalgia I share your love of Zeppelins for all of the same reasons, and indeed, you are correct in that weather did bring down more airships than any enemy attacks. You probably already know this, but I think that one of the really cool advantages that the Zeppelins had over the airplanes was that they could ascend to altitudes above the limits of fighter planes in order to avoid aerial attacks.

[altmusicguy]

@Pocketwatch625 And about half way through the war the zeppelin company introduced the newer "high altitude" zeppelins which were designed to fly well.... even higher. By the end of the war, the zeppelin company had built so many zeppelins that the builders were quite experienced, which is why no other zeppelin built by any other country was as well rounded and as durable as the german zeppelins were after the war.

[Pocketwatch625]

@altmusicguy Yes, the high fliers! Those were the ones that nearly killed their crews due to the debilitating effects of high altitude, right? And indeed, it is amazing to think that the Zeppelin Airship Company was unsurpassed in their skill with building the things. Too bad about the Hindenburg, otherwise airships might still have a prospective future. If only the friggin' Nazis hadn't been around at the time; it would have gotten the helium from America that it was originally built for.

[robloxace]

1:54

Cpl.-The howitzer appears to be broken sir

[bratmassakern]

thats it? :S

[whilliamwithh]

where can i download it? Does anyone have a link or a torrent please?

[galloway6204]

Srsly all you have to do is shoot 1 hole and its going down!

[pyzrm19]

do they have submarines, biplanes, cruisers??

[leviterande]

1:49 did that guy die because the director told him to?

[panoulis20]

at 2:22 lol

[waddlerobloxxxx]

1:40-1:44 Hes like:,,Meh, throwing bombs is so boring"

lol

[legoww2fan4life]

what a way to die. gun in 1 hand razor in the other and shaving cream on half your face.

[italianny23]

that razor doesn't look to comfortable. Get that man a Gillette pro-glide!

[yalinfan]

Fantasy is also in the "spy basket". It would never have been from metal - much too heavy. As for the heaviness of bombs - they dropped really big bombs on London. It was tricky because the airship would jump up into the sky on the loss of the weight.

[ma049]

" It would never have been from metal - much too heavy. "

There is a metal "spy basket" from a WW1 Zepplin on display in the Imperial War Muesum in London.

[cannonski]

Pretty cool video. Reminds me of a film from the 70s called Zeppelin. It was a little silly but was quite cool nonetheless (as you get to see it being slowly shot down by a bunch of british SE5a fighters). I just wish I could find clips of it on youtube!

[scotpens]

@cannonski There's a spectacular zeppelin sequence in the 1930 film "Hell's Angels," directed by Howard Hughes. The miniature effects are good even compared to today's CGI work.

[ababil13]

@scotpens

Yes, CGI destroy's the original value..

[Euroman25]

they should have bombed the cows :)

[Theempore1234]

what were the zeppelins actually for??

[HeyItsFritz]

@Theempore1234 Usually limited bombing runs and for Reconnaissance

[SMGJohn]

Big ass Zeppelin just to drop 2 bombs!? WHAT THE!?!?!?

[bpeck77]

ACHTUNG, LUFTSCHIFF !!!!

[killerbee2k]

Zeppelins are kewl

[n1b3luNg]

This WAY overdoes how good the Russians had it.

Most of the time the Russian army back then was in miserable condition, and VERY unwilling to fight.

[brok2]

the germans clearly just wanted a bit of peace and quiet, so they bombed the russian troops to stop their constant jabbering.

The guy who dies at 1:48 is the unluckiest guy ever- that explosion must have been over 100 yards away!

Pretty sure Zep bombs were a bit bigger than that too.

[Madmachine73]

@brok2 Not to mention that it was also dangerous for the planes themselves if shrapnel flew that far :p.

[VagrantSoul14]

God no, not the cows! D:

[puertoirish]

they really "dropped" those bombs! hehe

[Seteli12]

don't kill the cows D:

[strangeandstranger1]

@Seteli12

1st thing I thought.

[vdven]

A zeppelin bombed Minsk in Sept, 1914.

[hanford1968]

is good

[hanford1968]

I like that

[Dudeifyacation]

i would like to watch this in english

[shake1471]

1:42 lmaooo

[cristianevallim]

I didn't know that in Russia had so good televisions séries. I would like to watch this TV série in Germany!

[11frankenstein]

It's very simple but you should dislike this movie. :-) There is not good heroes a Gemany people.

[mdk124]

i heard tracers round could burn them :O

[danmanlott]

once they found out how to make bullets with burning fosfuresent a single bullet could take it down.

[Karagianis]

The bullets the men on the ground are firing probably had the range to hit the Zep at that low altitude. But Bullets really weren't much use on their own against an airship. Just poking a .303 hole in it didn't do much. The British actually developed a special incenduary anti-airship bullet because normal rounds were largely useless.

[ArmyMen333]

so that's what detroyed all the zeppelins during the air raid in britain

[cbaabcjosh]

but germans later filled there airship with helium

so that bullets wont deflate it

[ArmyMen333]

were the German planes Focker DV Albatrosses because they can't be Focker DV 2's,they were really small and red where as the other planes were a brownish colour and were long

[ArmyMen333]

i think this was in 1915 or 1916

[viafazero]

i at first see a tactical use of airship.

Is it a real tale?

Although i know an airship can hav machineguns for protect herself from ariplane destryoyers, and hav bombs for strategic attacks, it seems fantastic for me she made these close attacks on ground.

[Bierkiller87]

Alles Gute kommt von oben.^^

[micheals1992]

wouldnt the bullets be able to make the hydrogen gas explode??

[scribblermonkey]

No. You need to first shoot it with a bunch of regular bullets, then once there's a cloud of hydrogen around the ship, you need to hit that with incendiary bullets to make it ignite. It's much trickier than people think.

[vowlesy77]

Surely the bullets wouldnt even be reaching it?

[elmntx32]

Im sure they would just the velocity and wear on the bullet will render it useless

[Xxmeatychud92X]

They would just bounce off the airship then?

[ArmyMen333]

just aim for the commander then,lol

[railadvocate]

@scribblermonkey Yup.....and not gonna get many sparks off of any of the aluminum frame... The crew, especially riggers, were trained at patching. I read of one zeppelin limping back to it's shed after a battle with 456 or so holes in its cells...

[RLhockey203]

@scribblermonkey that doesnt sound that hard

[mivic86]

@scribblermonkey But there's also a thing with hydrogen, as far as I know. It gets into a chemical reaction with oxygen, so basically all you need is a little spark. From a bullet brushing against the frames or anything.

[stateoffun]

Damn being the captain of an airship like that would just be awsome.

[MrUnhappyGuy]

true

[ArmyMen333]

yeh,super awesome

[oxode]

What kind of stupid stuff is this? No one ever would have used a Zeppelin to attack a artillery unit. They were like strategic bombers and operated allready in hights beyond visual range and for what should the Krauts send a Zeppelin, when they have two plains to do the job? Didn't the guys who made this wast a single thoght on what they were doing?

[steamboy51]

umm, zeppelins were quite effective against artillery. those cannons were not anti-air.

[TLEforever]

i wish i could fly with one of those zeppelins too

[Detoyato]

Ive got blueprints (incomplete) of two of these Zeppelin Bombers.

[steamboy51]

wow, i hope that awesome airship doesnt get destroyed. i have a soft spot for airships, and though the idea of a zep watr machine sounds cool, i think the germans mis-used their air power

[twobellz]

Could some kind soul who speaks/writes russian please post the producer/distributors details here so I may request an english-subtitled version?

[vonSchmettern]

Although zeppelins did play a role on the Eastern front, it was mostly for recon and the bombing of big targets like cities or fortifications. Those baskets were intended for navigation help on night missions against England in great heights, I don't know if they were even in use elsewhere and they certainly did not work very well. Most of this looks like pure fantasy, like so many ultra-heavy guns in one place, as the Russians did not even have them. The siege of Przemysl certainly showed this.

[lepra01]

"ultra-heavy guns in one place, as the Russians did not even have them"

In episode show russian 254-mm guns of coastal artillery.

[vonSchmettern]

Oh, sorry - I was thinking about the land war, where the Russian army lacked siege and railway guns, and completely forgot about coastal batteries. These were quite a headache for the German navy, especially when combined with extensive minefields.

[IRUSIpanzermaster]

@lepra01 Russia did have everything in the video. Just not a lot.

[DavBlc7]

@vonSchmettern The Zeppelins did bomb London but later the British found a way to shoot it down using tracer bullets from aeroplanes as well as flak guns.

[stijntje28]

@vonSchmettern i agree i dont think they had this much of 'ultra heavy guns' at one place, at the same time but, on the other hand, if this would have been at a coast or harbor or something it could have been so much artillery...but still then maybe 3 :p i also think this is alot of fantasie but its still cool!

[madcat789]

@vonSchmettern FINALLY, someone who KNOWS what a zeppelin was used for in the first world war!

[Infantry43]

hmmmm didn't know the germans lowered people from zeppliens to bomb thx for posting

[MoffTaka]

Exellent work!

But, what is this Zeppelin's number?

I guess its looks like very early model before

LZ 20 or other type Air-ships "Schutte-Lanz".

And I think that the busket under the ship,

isn't typical equipment at early of war.

[store746]

I don't speak russian, but this miniseries is one of my top ten films of all times.

Still hope it will be released with english or german subtitles.

[tuskbaron]

love it!!!

[Freakazoit2]

They throw bombs very funny - using hands! Zeppelin is so big target for rifles - but I not sure will bullets make damage to zeppelin or not do any casuality

[bgtop9962]

its WWI, there were fight planes even like the red baron.

[CoIdHeat]

Ordinary Ammunition would do no harm against a Zeppelin.. only explosive shells or rockets, which were invented in the later years of the war.

[Mardukapalilinda]

Bardzo dobry film.

[wolnorynkowiec]

A nie wiesz skąd go można wziąć? Interesuję się też pierwszą wojną światową, a widzę na youtubie, że Rosjanie jakieś nowe filmy zrobili.

[chernobilrasputin]

VIVE LA ALEMANIA DE HOY

[jws54]

nice, thanks for posting

[vadimbann]

russian movie .... ...gibel imperii...