The Nebelwerfer

[Grandizer8989]

At my command...unleash Hell.. i wonder how a Katushya sounded compared to this...

[MrDHWong1989]

This is a Nebelwerfer. It werfs Nebel.

[TheSk00kum]

Anyone else remember these from Medal of Honor: Allied Assault?

[minecrafter50]

@TheSk00kum YES :D

[candlepeace]

8 people their grandfathers were killed by this weapon

[minecrafter50]

@candlepeace Not cool...

[candlepeace]

The sound of Gates of Hell opening

[ojsilva1975]

@UnitedOffensiveIII why is this age restricted? O.o D:

[haloCE6]

Haha Starfighters.

[seqament]

This sounds is terrifying.

[PiTaBoI94]

Straight out of Star Wars

[HaligonianType1]

My freaken neighbor is firing his nebelwerfer again. Not sure what to do. What a nutjob. He can't fire that thing within city limits. WTF man?!

[SpaceWars2025]

@HaligonianType1 How many of them darts you think could take down the moon?

[Mikeycf90]

Perfect for dumb russian infantary charges :)

[hari1408]

why this is age restricted ?

[ojsilva1975]

@hari1408 that is really a good question

[Grenadier1866]

mein neuer Klingelton <.<

My new Phonesound <.<

[ElCreepoAustraliano]

I remember an American vet was being interviewed once, from the 101st Airborne in relation to the Ardennes offensive, he stated how much his heart would sink at the sound of the nebelwerfers firing and hearing them screaming as they came in, he said the sound was just distinct and would never forget it

[byf43]

Thanks for uploading and thanks for a good description.

[PROkiller16]

This is a beautiful sound.

[Hibryd7]

Zis is ze Nebelwerfer, it werfs nebel.

[sepaol]

that sound is sooo epic

[em129836]

Why does it make that screaming sound?

[gaz61279]

@em129836 I imagine its to scare the enemy. Similar to the Jericho Trumpets the Nazis used on their Dive Bombers.

[AGM796]

how could 7 people dislike this. its beautiful. although deadly to the allies, it is a beautiful sound and artillery piece.

[holland787]

i would be there

nice sounds

[Brickstudios12]

I would shit my pants just firing one of these lol

[GainasBuzz]

@Brickstudios12 yes lol its not a gun that u operate or something, just light the fuse and get HELL out of there. It might make a good gadget for New Years Eve as well..lolz

[Brickstudios12]

@GainasBuzz yeah lol, but you better swap those HE rockest for something that explodes in mid air lo, not ending but barraging an entire neighbourhoood xD

[Eliasmalak]

at 0:03 looks like Hamas firing rockets into Gaza on CNN :P

[sepaol]

i love the sound!

[crazyranga90]

Russian katyusha was way more epic

[DaedalusReturned]

Germans were masters of psychological warfare at the time... aside from how terrifying the sound of the nebelwerfer is, I also find the sirens attached to Stuka dive bombers pretty frightening as well. Looking back at it all, what the Germans fostered in innovation and audacity is enough to leave you in awe. Quite the formidable opponents of the time.

[1Malgus]

@DaedalusReturned Imagine hearing all those sounds at the same? Stuka dive bombing, nebels shooting rockets and finally MG42 firing at you.. yeah I would shit my pants too.

[ElCreepoAustraliano]

@1Malgus on top of that a Tiger advancing on you 

[quinnweller]

@DaedalusReturned When Hitler appeared for speeches, he would play a specific audio frequency that would give the audience a slight stomach ache, and then when he appeared on stage he would have the sound stopped and their stomach aches would go away, and they literally thought he was a demigod or a prophet. so you're perfectly right. Truly a master of the human mind.

[1elgalle1]

fuck USA and U.K,U.K is a shit hole

[1elgalle1]

i am from spain .. and the Germans are superior beings of any race, the Spanish should we kill all the genes were not Germanic .. with since barbarian invasions of the Swabians and Visigoths, and make a purer Spain, out of Gypsy and mixed blood, a germanic race, are the best hail Deutschland, long live the Germans in Spain respect them a lot

sorry my english

vive germany

[1elgalle1]

woa!!! the germans are goods..for the war...

[leecooper9911]

my grandfather fight in warsaw uprising '44. they call these rocket bellowing cows.

[KilonBerlin]

@leecooper9911 My grandpa is polish too, ok from today lithuania which stalin annexed...he was forced to fight or at least support the soviet forces, and yup its a psychological weapon, but infrantry didn't like werfers and avoided to be near them, because only werfers mounted on a truck could change the position fast enough, easy to locate through the NEBEL (dust) which it left after firing...it's really a nebelwerfer so seen. Positive is only that Nebelwerfer was more precise than Katjuscha.

[KilonBerlin]

of course not every time a soviet artillery bataillon was ready to look for nebelwerfer-dust, but sometimes it happened... but that they were not mounted on a truck was lucky in the last months of war, when there was no gasoline. And the REAL impressive nebelwerfer are these used by planes and fired from ships... there are no videos of nebelwerfers fired by german fighter aircrafts, but there is a "Deutsche Wochenschau"-Video where an small boat (destroyer?) fires nebelwerfer at early 1945.

[jantsik112]

any idea where i could see/hear the "heulende kuh/heulende küle" firing?

i really would like to hear that weapon in action, but i cant find any videos of it with sound...

plz help

[masamune200]

woosh! woosh! woosh! woosh! woosh! woosh! woosh! woosh! woosh! woosh! woosh! woosh!

[boyaka619ify]

i fuckin hate the nazis but damn they made a good rocket launcher

[internetzwemmer]

could be the most terrfiyng ww2 sound during the war

[Marcoz588]

@internetzwemmer along with the 'sirens of Jericho' on the Stukas. I would definitely agree!!

[hammerhi99]

@internetzwemmer the stalinorgel sounded exactly the same... awesome.

[TheIxtlan]

I love multiple rocket launcher, they are so kool. Fatalities= zero lol

[jariojario99]

unique rocket launch wound...

[BellcrosS2]

You love the sound, but you can't imagine how both big armies feared these sounds. ( russia the nebelwerfer and the germans - katyusha)

[DodgeR2711]

German Power

das ist wie die Stalin orgel nur besser es ist Musik in meine Ohren !

Das hat den Amis die hosen nass gemacht!

[cheapsilverware]

@DodgeR2711 take it easy hitler

[geezafrombrum]

I'd like to do this for a thrill instead of skydiving...

[trollfinger]

That is some scary shit

[Somesubjekt]

@trollfinger:

what you tjonk how scary it is if you have to face and fight it.

[MachineFight]

the bad boys from ww2 ^^

[bruceqliao]

Tales of Valor! :D!

[assinne]

my company of hero's favourite unit...

[aly9292]

even the dogs of hell,cannot howl like nebelwerfer!

[ecrins70]

0:33 is not a Nebelwerfer but Wurframe.

[thehumor]

company of heroes danit

[bakkus1985]

therenot only nebelwerfers firing i see some Wurfrahmen 40 there aswell they are even more nasty. sux to be on the reciving end

[MichaSSquad]

i'm lovin it !

[5seba56]

german engineering on its best

[Michael7477]

Now I understand where the term "shock and awe" comes from.

[fernandofernandezgar]

Im-pre-sio-nan-te!!!!!

[ispitthetruth]

now this is what you call engineering...

[aly9292]

6 jews watch this! :D

[JunkaJFStuka]

screaming mee mees!

[Freeman9321]

This makes a good ringtone

[Pfaffenfresser1]

ENDGEIL!!!! Frage mich, wie Deutschland verlieren konnte ...

[Freedom21stCenturi]

german military engineering- lightyears ahead of most allied technology. deadly efficiency.

[H4L0K1LL4]

if your the allies in CoH, and you hear this, you go "oh shit...."

[Cegrell]

@H4L0K1LL4 I wouldnt know since i only play axis, but i know this; You should be afraid!

[PantsuGirl]

One "invention" where the Germans where outsmarted by the Soviets

[MrMarketingDirector]

Why did someone flag this?

Wow... Intimidating.

[bellbombnick]

I've learned in my world war ll book that the nebelwefer made that sound because it says the british nicknamed the launcher moaning minnie because the noise it made as it fired. Also it's my very favrite weppen to me it ackts like shit

[Tex259]

oh i just love that sound it sounds so manly i think its just such a great weapon.

[oilersridersbluejays]

Sexy, just sexy...

[PatronSaint210]

We Germans had crazy war machines lol.

[ibezdaman]

Why is this flagged? I don't see anything offensive or inappropriate.

[stephencious]

my favorite terrifying sound is the v-1 because yo uwill never know where it will hit

[bing476]

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!!!!!!

[SakuChanofthesand]

This was just like the V1-2 and Stuka, All meant to scare you, Good job they failed against our lads!

[strudel89]

cause your 26 allied countries had over 200 men and artillerie for each german,we were worst supplied and we had Hitler with his totalitarian power over germany and its army,besides that supply problem,only having Hitler as the leader was enough to make any country loose a war

[Sirpain1]

@strudel89 the Germans were well in the first three years only in the later years when Hitler took over command of the military (dumb idea he is a politician and was only a lance corporal in WW1) and their technology started to stagnate due to their complacent views on the war caused them to be overwhelmed by the Allied forces

[boyaka619ify]

GET TO COVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

[KidChaos878]

The American soldiers nickname it " Screaming Mimis".

[stephencious]

@KidChaos878 why is dat it dosent evev scream mimi

[Hissanrach]

It sounds so scary. I would shit my pants if I heard this in real life.

[DILLIGAFFUM]

that noise is annoying. perhaps a duran duran track would be appropriate...

[EdgeStormcrow]

fucken terrifying, good thing id take a boat out to sea before i fought a ruling class' war

[Rhandahl]

This was indeed mostly a psychological weapon, as its precision were awful, and the effect was questionable, but no doubt, people ran off when those started hitting all around em.

[Gestapo1940]

@Rhandahl Does precision really matter?

Get enough of these firing on 1 sector and youre gonna hit something

[Shintsu2]

You know this was one of those psychological weapons - it might not have been a precision weapon but with all those rockets hitting everywhere and screaming that horrifying sound I'm sure anyone on the other side of it was plenty scared of those things!

[hallieboy]

@Shintsu2 They did the same thing with their Stuka dive bombers. Evil genious. Scare the hell out of the civilian population before they kill them.

[Sirpain1]

@Shintsu2 i would think it was a very effective weapon as well as a psychological one i mean you don't want precision artillery when you have a few thousand men and tanks charging your position you would want a very large area to be saturated with artillery fire plus if you were fighting an enemy entrenched and you have them surrounded it would be beneficial to just bomb the place to kingdom come

[Shintsu2]

@Sirpain1 If it were an Allied weapon then precision would be key, but being the Germans at the time were not concerned with collateral damage or civilian casualties they right well bombed everything. Although to some extent mortars are similar in function, if not as rapid firing or as horrifying (Still I think mortars are plenty scary with the whistle followed by the explosions all around you - but the Nebelwerfer is just diabolical sounding).

[Nykain]

@Shintsu2

Talking about allied forces, precision and avoiding colleteral damage.

Yeah rite.

[BiohazardCrow]

@Shintsu2 The "Woooooow Wooooow" you hear is the begging of the launch of the rocket. If you are hit by a Nebelwerfer charge the last thing you will hear is the "Boom" of the explosion. Beside there is a 65% chance that the nebelwerfer make you blind and deft for live than killing you. A real terror weapon.

[MusikAndLuv]

@BiohazardCrow true. You can also look at the automobile as a terror weapon, or the airplane. People have been crippled and disfigured by these things too. The terror comes from the human beings who put it together and their pathological hatreds, the machine is always secondary.

[amh1230]

@Shintsu2 heck yeah. everyone under fire from a rocket barrage was thinking 'what if the next one comes down on me?'.

[XanaduZune]

I love these things. They are so cool. When I am working on my online business, this is one of the images that go through my mind.

[DieewigeSuche]

HAHA : D No Concentration with

"pffft" Pffff" *pffffft* Pffffft*

[Luckertoni]

lol

[JIM30747]

Ever been on the receiving end of one, or perhaps on the receiving end of ANY artillery barrage?

It's quite uncomfortable to do so.

[Matepeti666]

man hearing that thing must have been friggin scary.....especially if it was firing at you.....

[DieewigeSuche]

you ever played company of Heroes ? All your combatants are afraid if they hear you got Nebelwerfers now : D

[Matepeti666]

actually, i finished it.....but only CoH...and not the expansions....

[Matepeti666]

but this is reality and coh is virtual reality....the two things dont match.....:P

[m2chn]

I cannot see why this video is particularly difficult for sensitive and young viewers to watch.

[sAZU88]

Because you see evil german soldiers; they are all monsters, uuuuuuuh, so scray......

this is ridiculous, you see soldiers firing their weapons, thats all. But sometimes I think, that many people believe that all german soldiers of world war II were evil nazi beasts. Thats a lie, but I´m tired of that(on top of that this is sixty years ago, no one would be hurt by these rockets anymore)

[teutone0815]

...more than that.

Be careful

signed: one real " Fallschirmjäger "

[waffenkrieg666]

well if you want to be technical, Nebel actually means fog or mist. Rauche means smoke.

[Unfilled]

it's Rauch without E but thats ok

the rest is correct.

and i'd like to add that the Wurfgranate is (exact translation!) a Throw or throwing granade

[fn6000]

I read a book about 2 kids, one german, one american. the american was sitting with his friend in a fox hole when the things went off. when the sergent came to find them, he called it a screamy meemie, or a fog thrower, hence the name nebelwerfer, which means smoke launcher in german :P

[plyr1177]

Afaik the screaming meemie is the Panzerwerfer 42.

[ODSTroper]

were r da peole firinf it

[101McAvoy101]

Wrong, it's named after the Man that invented it, Rudolf Nebel.

[bobl443]

Not true

Nebelwerfer used to be smokelauncher at first.

Thats why they got called Nebel ( Smoke ) Werfer ( Launcher )

[LYCANS1128]

that why americans cry when germans attack them with this mother fucker it's raining bomb!!!!!

[rcl567]

holy shittttt

[DieBismarck1]

that´s not excactly right mate. the codename 'Nebelwerfer' was a codename for all kinds of rocketlaucher of the wehrmacht!

And the firerange of one of those beast´s could reach (with the right angle) the 13km mark!!

But you made a good vid :D 5

[Panzerwurfer]

You have no idea how much I love that sound

[bonzaibonzaibonzai]

@Panzerwurfer Yes me too !

[stephencious]

@Panzerwurfer i dont like the music i like the v-1 music

[Lazaro5000]

@Panzerwurfer

Oddly enough, I like it too....

[gneisenau321]

@Panzerwurfer

Ha, ha me too. :)

[00RSZEX]

@Panzerwurfer it terrified Allied Soldiers

[walass17]

@Panzerwurfer Yes I Have :)

[S73veMcQu33n]

@Panzerwurfer you love it because you were not there........

[Panzerwurfer]

@S73veMcQu33n true, true. I hope never to be in combat, let alone that as brutal as the Second World War's

[marcitowow]

@Panzerwurfer me too

[Silnius]

@Panzerwurfer reminds me of Formula 1 racers speeding by

[hockeydudeluv]

yes scary sound for sure, why didnt they use this in high concentration for AA guns??? What is the speed of the projectiles?? looks freakishly subsonic.

[travisbob12]

yes because the germans would fire hundreds of rockets into the sky, what happens when they miss and come back down?

[hockeydudeluv]

i dont know about you, but i think its common sense not to shoot straight up, im sure some type of an angle would prevent disaster

[travisbob12]

ok then shooting up at an angle what about the villiage a mile away that the rocket hits? there is a reason rockets are not used as anti air weapons no one has ever used rockets as anti air weapons and no one ever will. because rockets are uncontrolled and they will come back down.

[initvesa]

Well, unless if you have a wire guided rocket, was was used, but that's not really a rocket in the strict sense... However, it may be good to consider the possibility of delivering self detenating warheads like FLAK so you have massive rocket launched FLAK... there probably are other infeasibilities.

[travisbob12]

another point if you fire a nebelwerfer at a 60 degree angle so the rocket would not come down and hit you it wouldnt gain the altitude required to hit a plane.

[travisbob12]

and a final point to prove yu completely wrong. a 300mm nebelwerfer can fire at a heigh of 15000feet where as a b24 bomber flys at the height of 25000 feet so it wouldnt even shoot high enough. if you dont believe me search it on google.

[KikeRio]

hypnotic sound

[FrenchPropagandaV1]

SOUND OF NOWHERE, INSANE

[Rexeverything9]

They used it in the same way as a Howitzer or a Mortar, they aimed in the general direction, and saturated the intended target. Crazily enough a reenacting unit actually uses one during events.\

I can only hope when I do some reenacting I will get to see one fire.

[tommyau2006]

do they just saturate a target or are they aiming?

[LowStuff]

Like every artillery, they became coords, where the enemy was assumed to be. Direction and angle were broadly defined and shots were made. :)

[tommyau2006]

thanks.............

[Erogerk]

awesome machine

[Longstreetta]

Warsaw insurgents were right, it sounds like "moving heavy wardrobe on the floor" or "mooing cow".

[EvilMaxWar]

Man the sound of these things give me the creeps.

[fogofwar316]

yeah and iof heard in real life it could make go retarted

[beeftothetaco]

i thought it directly translated to "rocket thrower"

[gzadrunkgenius]

this is gangsta right here

[jamestaylor94b]

am besten ist immer 1.06

[SunddenStrike17]

jap

[LowStuff]

bei 1:06 ist euch aber schon klar das der Sound einfach unter Bildmaterial unterlegt wurde oder? Die Rohre sind viel zu klein für den Kreisch-sound, im originalen Ton haben sie den Kanonen/Mörserschlag-Sound.

[SunddenStrike17]

naja nicht unbedingt der nebelwerfer hört sich wirklich so an^^ es komt au die rakten dadrin an welche einfach nur wusch und einige mit dem kreischen das war zu einschüchterung gemacht was auh gut geklapt hat

[LowStuff]

Die Übergroßen Sprengköpfe passen nur in Käfighalterungen, nicht in Rohre ;)

[SunddenStrike17]

ja das weiss ich auch^^

[LowStuff]

Well something has to be mentioned here.

The "small" barrels didn't make this screaming-sound when , even tough the sounds was also scary as shit. Imagine a howitzer-revolver, that would describe it pretty much.

Only the larger Werfergranaten fired from cages were "screaming".

However, when going down on target, every rocket sounded like screaming.

[fogofwar316]

WOW! true

[arkim44]

the backblast wouldve torn a man apart and yep they sound like death

[WwWMaNiAk]

DEUTSCHLAND 4REVER !!!

[flashidashi]

Magnum, dann zähl doch mal deine "sicheren" Quellen auf! Umfassen sicherlich den größten Teil der Soldaten des Krieges. Son Quatsch man.

[MagnumRS123]

Genau, die es mir persönlich erzählten ( zum glück hatte ich noch die möglichkeit mit vielen zeitzeugen zu sprechen , da ich doch ein paar jahre älter bin , als die meisten you tube user . so habe es nicht aus irgendwelchen büchern von autoren die nie dabei waren.

[MagnumRS123]

da hatten die russen mehr angst vor, als die deutschen vor den stalinorgeln , weiss ich von ehemaligen zeitzeugen aus sicherer quelle .

[SunddenStrike17]

ist auch klar der deutsche nebelwerfer hate ein bisschen mehr power

[MadnessSAS]

ehi!! they're so noisy!!! during the 2WW they had an incredible psychological impact on the enemies!!! they're good but I prefer the soviet Katyusha!!!

[StarRider253]

they've strong ears

[aly9292]

all my respect for this beauty.

[Bigmanwithagun13]

its badass sounding