Military Experts Rate 21 Military Battles In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider

No, a helicopter cannot fly 90 degrees sideways like that. That's crazy. Hey, flies! I'm Vernice "FlyGirl" Armor and I'm coming to you. My name is Andy Stumpf. I spent just under 17 years as a US Navy SEAL. My name is Admiral Jamie Foggo. Peter Rhee. Mike Elliott. I am Nicolás Morán. Today I will watch helicopter scenes. Scenes of warships. Tank battle scenes. Scenes of battle wounds. Skydiving scenes. Underwater action scenes from

movies

and see how

real

they

real

ly are. If you need to cross the river, cross the river. You know, there's no reason to show up in the middle of this and reveal your tactical advantage.

If you're trying to sneak up on someone, you'd cross everything above the water or you'd cross everything below the water. Or go further downstream or upstream and, you know, maybe find a log crossing it. You don't even have to get wet because being wet sucks. (dramatic music) (gunshot) All right, stop right there. I've been asked many times about this particular scene because people love it and want to know how we train to be able to do that. And here's the answer: we don't. Because of course, you would never fall in another direction. You absolutely know the exact place and time someone is going to fall when you shoot them in the head, right?

Because why wouldn't you? What could go wrong? But you have to remember that all of that was probably preceded by a .762 or .300 Win Mag bullet going through the jungle. The suppressor that is on the rifle is basically a silencer and contains some of the gas and drastically reduces the decibel output of the rifle. But bullets, when they fly through the air, are supersonic. Then it makes a crack and there is subsonic ammunition and it is much quieter. That's not what that person was shooting at. The point of making the charade of grabbing someone and lowering them into the water as if he were simply eating them into the abyss is because you are trying to be sneaky.

So going through all of this in an attempt to be sneaky and then doing a jungle round defeats the whole purpose. That's just the way it is, that's not how it works, people. (dramatic music) When you hook up with a submarine in the middle of the ocean, that's totally plausible. They were in a Zodiac, which will probably have a 55 or 35 horsepower engine. So they could easily go from a land mass on the horizon into international waters or really wherever the submarine wanted to be and do that, so that's totally legitimate. (dramatic music) (door closing) Yeah, wow.

They obviously had direct support from the US Navy to make this film and I'm actually surprised they showed much of the SDV, which stands for Seal Delivery Vehicle. In essence, it is a miniature submarine. It's smaller, harder to discover, and you can move people and equipment a really long distance and then go back to the sub too because you can go back and re-attach to that asset you left from. You are in your dive gear until the dive is over and it can be up to 14 hours. A lot of times you're wearing dry suits. Dry and warm are two very different things that people should not confuse.

They did it. It is very possible that all of this will happen in an SDV operation. I'll give them a 10 for that. Sniper water river capture is zero. It could actually be a negative number. (dramatic music) Is there a more obvious way to let someone know you're coming than white and orange parachutes during the day by jumping directly over them? Surprise! You didn't see it coming. I wore diving fins on my feet for a free fall jump and was actually falling through the air with them on. However, most of the time, you put your feet through the back strap of the fin and actually glue the fin to your leg.

But if you're going to land in water, you'll want to have fins. In case you need to know how to swim or exert yourself, you will need those fins. (dramatic music) (harpoon shots) (laughter) Yes. And they had a fleet, a whole fleet of submersibles with harpoons. I am not aware of any commitment at any time in human history in which something like this has occurred. We are not trying to get into fights in the water, as is the case. We use it as a way to disguise what we're doing or to get from A to B, or to be sneaky, right?

To please, well I don't know where they went. Like bloop, here we are, we're in the water. You didn't see us, surprise! We never intend to fight. So no, we're not bringing tridents or spears or anything like that. (dramatic music) I like how they cut the hoses. Unfortunately, there is usually an inhalation hose and an exhalation hose and they could probably still breathe if they grabbed the wrong hose. We always carried dive knives, but they serve as cutting equipment if something gets stuck. I never thought of bringing that out with the intention of fighting him. It was for anything but that.

Like Phillip head screws, using the tip of your, like that's the only use for dive knives. (dramatic music) I like the idea of ​​what's in his mouth. I'll call it Gen One Spare Air, which with a container that size I feel like you get about half a breath. So it certainly couldn't stay underwater. (dramatic music) And then the concussion device in the water. Concussion and the way shock waves travel underwater is very, very real. Let's say it was a grenade of some kind. That would probably kill the people within that contained area, but it would probably also damage it a bit, especially if there are windows and portholes open because those things would bounce around as well.

So it's plausible, but I would say you'd want to get the (bleep) out of there before that thing blew up, like get out of the water before that thing blew up. I don't even know if I can give this one a technical review. - I found door number three and took it. (dramatic music) - Oh, that's a national treasure, okay. You know, jumping off, I think it was the aircraft carrier, it's probably going to be 50, 60 feet. I'm here for that. You can definitely survive that. You could definitely do that. (dramatic music) So we navigated, we called them navigation boards and we had three really cool items on there that we used to look at for hours at a time.

The first one you already mentioned was a compass. The next fun tool was a depth gauge and lastly a stopwatch. That was it. We dive in pairs, but only one person gets the navigation board. Then someone else says, "I hate my life. This dive is taking forever. I don't even have anything to look at." So sometimes when I was the buddy, I would just swim on top of my dive buddy and also look at the navigation board, because I was so bored. I just wanted to look at the numbers slowly, as if I was crawling. (dramatic music) - Can you see Gates in the water? - Sir, it's the Hudson, you can't see anything. - Then all these people who are above them looking down will see the bubbles.

This would be an example of where a closed loop would be better than an open loop. Because even though that guy grabbed it right under the water, every time they exhale, the bubbles rise. In fact, it is very easy to follow the progress of divers from above when they breathe in an open circuit. Open circuit, you can see the bubbles. Closed loop, you can be sneaky. It's just a closed loop system that only allows the gas to flow in one direction because obviously you don't want it to come and go, and you push it through a chemical scrubber, remove the carbon dioxide and boom, we're off and running.

There is a 100% chance you can do that. But if you wanted to do it and not be seen, I would say closed circuit is a better option. I'll give them a seven. - Hello, my name is Peter Rhee. I served in the

military

for 24 years and am a trauma surgeon. I was one of the first surgeons in Afghanistan. Today we will see scenes of battle wounds. (people shouting) - Jesus. - Bring it, bring it. - I said put the guts in now. (gunshots) - What they are trying to show is an evisceration. So, a guy was hit, they took enemy fire, high-velocity weapons, AK-47s somewhere were hit, and then they gutted his organs.

They're trying to push it in, but you can't do it. It doesn't work that way. The ones I saw were AK-47 exit wounds through a small hole the size of a plum. You'll push everything in because you feel pressure while you grunt and moan from the pain and then you won't be able to push it back in because it just comes back out. So unless they are chemically paralyzed by intubating them, it's a waste of time. In the case of penetrating wounds, when we talk about gunshot wounds and things like that, the main thing is to bring them to me as soon as possible and stop the bleeding.

If it's not your heart and major vessels, we can save you. If you don't hit them, we can repair the rest. - Hey, hey, look at me! - Now the only thing I hate when they make

movies

is that every time you suffer some kind of injury to your torso, they make you spit up blood and that doesn't happen. Unless you get shot in the mouth or have something high up in your cheeks and throat. You don't vomit blood from getting shot in the stomach or anything like that. - May, up! (man moaning) (helicopter blades whirring) - Let's move! - The only thing I like is that they show how difficult it is to move a heavy body out there.

These are two to 300 pound masses that you have to drag and two guys pulling these things is not that easy to do. I think that part is well done. (helicopter blades whirring) You would never drop a bird when there's a fire. A bird is not going to come down to evacuate a wounded person when they are going to shoot a 40 million dollar bird in the air. It will only land when it is a truly safe landing zone. I'd give it about a six. - Expected fleet. Priority. He left. - It's a great movie. It's pretty well done.

Triage in the field is very different than triage when you go to a medical company. You don't actually do much of this during the heat of battle, it's usually once the initial firefight is over. There are four categories when we do the classification. Then, he passed by the four dead, expectantly, they need your help, and then they will be fine. The guy is screaming and yelling. If they scream, it's okay, so it's a routine. And then I had a guy who was a priority, and that guy was already dead. Confirming that someone has died in a few seconds is not easy.

I was in Ramadi when 200 people were bombed at once with a single bomb. We received 70 of these victims that came directly to us and they all came one by one and I was the triage officer. The first marine I found was waiting, but he couldn't be sure because he literally only had four or five seconds to decide if he was dead or not, and there was no way we could use our resources to work on them. So what you're doing is trying to select the easy saves so you don't want to spend too much time on them, which is very different from what we do in civilian trauma.

In civilian trauma, we work with a team of 12 people on top of a person for hours and hours. And that's not something you can do in the

military

. I give it at nine. - Stay with me, stay with me. - Talk to me guys, talk to me, what happened? - Is that Kirk? (bleep) man. - There's some realism there. This is an outpost. This looks like an army. So the base station of the Italian army. The military usually has a doctor or a physician's assistant. Typically, with so many straps and such, the unit they are in, the housing unit, is paper thin.

Then the bullets will go through there. They should be a little more fortified with Hesco or earth barriers. You realize that the guy is trapping another guy because he's not breathing well and they're about to do CPR on him. We don't do that out there. If they need CPR, it's a waste of time because they need blood. -Medevac won't arrive for a few hours, which means he needs fresh blood if he wants to live. This is the only thing we can do. We are not sterile and cannot test for disease. Our fresh blood is all we can do to save him. - Gloves again with bloody hands, that's not very realistic.

They have gloves on right now. When I came out, we started doing this for the first time, we actually started using fresh, warm whole blood, which is miraculous. It's incredibly miraculous. We can't do that in the civilian world. But we walked through the blood bank. In my unit in Ramadi, Charlie Med, two surgeons, we also had 60 to 70 doctors with us. The base was about 600 people. So we were going to the dining room and there was this guy yelling "Walking blood bank." Everyone would spit out their food, stand in line at my medical company, check their ID badges, lay on the floor, get poked and get a bag of blood.

We did a little test to see if they were compatible and used it. So from that perspective, it's true. There's a lot of little mistakes they made here to dramatize it and they can get away with it for most people, but you know, you wouldn't go up to them and give them your standing blood and stuff. how that. At least they're wearing the right uniform, so I'm giving them a seven. (explosion) (man screaming) This is a really good scene. When that explosion occurred in slow motion, you couldsee the boot flying directly towards the camera. It's a little unusual from an injury standpoint.

Like hell, getting to the ground would take your legs off like that because seeing bilateral thigh amputees has been a really recent injury that we've never seen before in previous wars. We didn't really see bilateral above-knee amputations. Before, in the other war movies, they stepped on Claymores and land mines and they were actually meant to take your foot and ankle off. Then the medics would come out and then you would shoot them and cause more casualties. So it wasn't actually supposed to be a fatal wound. Theirs was shattered below the knee, but it was obviously going to be similar to what we were seeing in Iraq, where they were just building these huge bombs and burying them in the ground.

We only saw legs flying through the air. (man grunting) He could last three hours with tourniquets. Blood loss is the main preventable loss that we want to avoid. Some of the soldiers even use tourniquets when they go out. In reality, what we are recommending and what we teach is that they put on their own tourniquets. Tourniquets are problematic because if you don't put them on correctly and if they aren't as tight as possible, you will bleed more and bleed out. When you put it on, you have to commit to it. You have to go deep. And I'm telling you, putting on a tourniquet will be the most painful thing you'll experience for about three or four minutes.

It's like your leg falls off. So, it is something that is done as a last resort. It will save lives, but you have to try, otherwise you will bleed more. (man moaning) - Here comes the morphine, here comes the morphine. It's going to take effect very quickly, Ralph. Let's get you changed. - In the old days morphine was good. We got scared because morphine can definitely kill you. If you take a person who has low blood pressure, they don't have circulating blood and then you give it to them, then it can depress their heart function and then you can die, you would also stop breathing.

So we've actually abandoned morphine in the field. We use a new drug called ketamine. While it relieves a lot of pain, it does not reduce blood pressure. So, that's the reason we use it. Doctors can do a lot and are vitally important, but in many movies I think the audience doesn't understand that a doctor is not a trauma surgeon. The trauma surgeon obviously went to medical school, did five years of general surgery and then two years of training as a trauma surgeon. So, seven years of training as a neurosurgeon. The doctor's job is to hand them to us, not to hold things in the field.

It's pretty good. I'd say give it a nine. - My name is Admiral Jamie Foggo and I served in the Navy for almost 40 years. When I retired I assumed the position of Dean of the Naval League Maritime St

rate

gy Center here in Washington, DC. Today we will see scenes from warship movies. (dramatic music) - Second torpedo to starboard beam! Course 1-2-0. (dramatic music) - "Greyhound" is an absolutely phenomenal movie. It tells and describes with great historical precision. In the film the Germans are shown deploying wolf pack tactics, and you know, you see two torpedoes coming from different directions, you know it's more than one submarine firing.

And these tactics were extremely effective. (dramatic music) - Subway, subway! (dramatic music) - So what you see on the ship's bridge is an attack on the destroyer. I think that was very realistic. And you see the wake of the torpedo coming towards you. Propellers do something we call cavitation. They create bubbles as they pass through the water and that creates a trail behind the torpedo. And so, an attentive lookout can notice that early and gives the commanding officer an advantage in carrying out those drastic evasive maneuvers. If it was night, it was often even easier to see the torpedo due to the phosphorescence of the water.

It shines when it comes towards you. Many of these torpedoes were electrically powered. They had batteries and electric motors and would go towards the target. Today we have torpedoes that are propelled by fuel and have a very long range. So it was a different game, but in this case, absolutely accu

rate

. (dramatic music) Regarding the maneuverability of that destroyer, it must be taken into account that this is not a

battles

hip that displaces 50,000 tons. Today they are lighter boats; The United States Navy's heavy destroyers weigh between 7,800 and 8,000 tons. The propulsion systems of these destroyers, the engines, propellers and rudders are designed for speed and maneuverability.

Especially since in the Second Battle of the Atlantic, they were not only going after surface ships, but also submarines. And that means you have to be able to turn in an instant. (dramatic music) (boat gun shots) Bullets that actually hit water or penetrate water, whether they actually cause any damage or not depends. As soon as you know a .50 caliber bullet hits water, it usually bounces off. If it passes below the waterline, it loses speed very quickly. Therefore, it is very unlikely that any type of steel hull will penetrate. But again, you never know. (dramatic music) (ships firing) So it has to surface because water is coming in.

And then, while he's on the surface, they finish him off in a pretty brutal way. But you see what look like anti-aircraft guns descending to the level of the deck plate. When this projectile entered and exploded, it could have caused secondary explosions. First there is an initial boom and then a massive boom. There's so much oil, fuel and weapons on board that submarine that, you know, once the initial penetration of the hull was necessary and those shape charges went in and exploded. This movie gets absolutely top marks for me. As for realism, 10 out of 10. - Cradle lowered. - Okay, I'll ram the projectile. - Easy! - When you hit that dust, you do it with ease. - Very easy. - This is one of the most accurate movies on how a 16-inch shell is loaded into a 16-inch gun.

That projectile weighs 2,000 pounds. Basically, you're loading a Volkswagen Beetle into that gun gap and firing it at the enemy. And you notice that the projectile is followed by these gunpowder charges. This was a very accurate representation of how that gun is loaded. There are spark-proof tools and everyone is very careful because you know that gunpowder is obviously explosive and volatile and any mistake, spark or flame could set it off and blow up that turret. - 2-0-4 degrees, Calloway. (beep) 2-0-4 degrees. - 2-0-4 degrees. -This very shiny brass device is a shooting spot, and serves to enable the gun captain to look and see the direction in which he is firing.

That's the way we used to do it. We used to have these very sophisticated fire control radars and weapons directors that today are on top of the turrets. - My fire in the hole. (explosion) (man screaming)-I chuckled at the fact that Tommy Lee Jones runs towards the 16-inch turret right before he shoots himself. On

battles

hips we had procedures to prevent sailors from being on the surface near those turrets when the guns were firing, because the overpressure of the explosion knocked them back, you know, a dozen feet or so. And that's probably pretty accurate. Even today, with our missile systems, if you are launching from the foredeck of a destroyer, there is no one up there when you launch it because there will be a lot of flashes that will explode when the gun comes out of the tube and you don't want anyone. get hurt.

I'd give it a seven out of 10. (dramatic music) "Battleship" happens to be one of my favorite movies. These are ships from the World War II era. They are no longer part of the active fleet, but these ships are made to fight and when you are on one of those battleships and you have a belt of armor around you, 12 to 17 inches thick and 50,000 tons of steel to protect you, That's quite reassuring. - Drop anchor to port. - That? (anchor crashing) (water splashing) - The deck officer on the bridge uses the anchor on the battleship to avoid being hit by some of the alien weapons.

Frankly, that's pretty dumb. The amount of chain on a battleship or aircraft carrier connected to the anchor is quite long. You know, it's probably at least 1000 feet, but we don't use anchors for that reason. We use anchors so that the ship is more in port and this is in the Pacific Ocean, which is very deep. (guns firing) (dramatic music) (guns firing) One thing viewers may not notice is that it is so powerful that the ship actually moves sideways by several meters. When you shoot a wide side, she can move significantly and you have to correct course there.

I'd probably give it a two. I think Hollywood took a little poetic license with the host in this case. - Hello flying friends, I am Vernice Fly Girl Armor and I am coming towards you. And back in 2003, I became the first black U.S. fighter pilot to serve two tours in Iraq. Today I will see helicopter scenes in movies. (dramatic music) (helicopter blades whirring) Formation flying in helicopters is very common. We practice it a lot. We will land together, we will take off together. And in an environment like this where you have that mission where you leave, let's say, a group of soldiers in this case, yes, that would absolutely happen like that. (helicopter blades whirring) (dramatic music) (explosion) Everything about that combat maneuver, the insertion, his fall.

That's why we don't do static things like that in combat anymore because of the vulnerability and the helicopter has virtually no maneuverability when you're that close so you can get out very quickly, a helicopter just doesn't move fast. . A helicopter has to gain momentum and get going, right? RPGs are a big threat to helicopters, especially if we fly what we call low and slow. But I remember flying in combat and we saw, and it was at the beginning of the combat and I saw these big fog clouds and we were trying to figure out what those fog clouds are.

And they were RPGs that had been programmed to explode at 200 and 300 feet. And some of my friends were affected by RPGs. Huge threat. (helicopter blades whirring) (people screaming) (crashing) So what I would say is an unrealistic part of that clip. When that RPG hit the tail rotor of that plane, I thought it would have been spinning much faster and not sliding down without power. And in the end, if you had tried to soften the landing a little bit, which we are taught to do in those types of situations with the loss of the tail rotor, we would have tried to turn around in the direction that it is spinning. to have a little control.

But it wouldn't have landed flat like you saw in that video. So the guys in the back would hopefully be tied up or would just be ejected immediately, like in a car accident that spins around and everyone is ejected from the vehicle. The reason I think they show or film more Helos getting hit in the tail rotor is simply because it's more dramatic. If you get hit in the tail rotor, you will immediately start spinning and lose control. If you get hit by the main rotor, you just explode and fall out of the sky. Which is more exciting?

On a scale of one to 10, nine. (dramatic music) (guns firing) Guns on the front of the attack helicopters. Is that realistic? Absolutely. It had a 20 millimeter Gatlin gun, three barrels, it spun around and fired a lot of bullets very quickly at the target. So yes, 100% realistic. Only pilots would fire that weapon. (dramatic music) You see two rocket launchers on the left, on the right, then two missile launchers on the left and right. There are 26 rockets in each of those capsules. Then there are four missiles on the final board. This is actually a standard payload for an attack helicopter. (rocket firing) (explosions) The rockets are called 2.75-inch rockets.

They're that big, right, 2.75 inches and they're pretty long. Rockets are like bullets. You aim, you shoot, you throw, they go wherever the wind hits them. Hellfire missiles are laser guided, right? They are then guided by a laser toward a particular target. A rocket hits a small area. Let's say it's 20 feet, 30 feet. These rockets are basically, you know, as soon as they hit, they explode and it's a point target. The missile has much more explosive power. You could shoot a tank or a building and it will explode. There are heat-seeking missiles and missiles that can fly to catch a plane per se, right?

But that's not the type of missiles that, number one, were on this plane. And number two, helicopters typically don't transport them. And they don't follow humans. And I doubt his jetpack gave off enough heat because it probably would have burned his legs if that were the case. (dramatic music) There would have been no way they could have just slipped through the vortexes of the helicopter. I could easily see them being knocked down 50 to 100 feet just like that. The payload was really realistic. The heat that seeks missiles, not so much. I'll give it a seven. (explosion) (helicopter blades whirring) (dramatic music) You can't fly through something like that.

Unrealistic. The rotors would have already fallen off the plane. ByAs hard as the rotor blades appear, they are very sensitive and finely tuned and balanced. And as soon as it hits an object, you won't be able to fly the plane after that. - Hurry up! - Because it's The Rock, it could have been realistic with him hanging on one side. It's like hanging from a car, right? Because most of a helicopter's downward wind thrust occurs in the last third of the blades. It is not in the same center. So the wind shear wouldn't have pushed it out of the way.

Totally unreal. It's like a car wheel. It is never in a position. It is in constant movement. Where was I? Getting the piece of metal to even fix it? When they showed him in that clip, he was just stable. In fact, he was able to hold it and the rod. It's just not going to be stable like this. (person screaming) No, a helicopter can't fly 90 degrees sideways like that. That was crazy. I would give him one. - Greetings to all. I am Nicolás Morán. I am commissioned as an armor officer on M1 tanks and then M3 Bradleys.

These days, my job is as a civilian historian for the World of Tanks publisher. Today we will see scenes of tank battles. (explosion) And that's absolutely accurate. The vast majority of the destroyed tanks had no idea the enemy was there. And again, that's why you always have to work in conjunction with the infantry because they have more eyes than you. They have better vision than you. But most of the time, the first indication that someone is there is when you get shot. And taking down the first or last tank in a back-to-back ambush like that is a classic. (people screaming) (dramatic music) - 88, it's a fucking tank. - Regarding CTs in this case, keeping your head out, there are two schools of thought, but certainly in the WWII period and during the Cold War, even I, would be in a head out. position.

The Western school of thought says you should keep your head out, because what you don't see will kill you. The other school of thought, like that used by the Soviet military in the Cold War, was that you wanted to operate upside down. Then you close the hatch. No artillery could affect you, no sniper could affect you. And the problem, of course, is the opposite. You can't see what's about to kill you. Therefore, it is necessary to strike a balance. - Good, all tanks advance. (tanks accelerating)-War daddy has decided for some reason that he is going to charge the enemy tank, I'm not sure he did exactly the same thing because that simplifies the problem for the enemy and only gives them three objectives in a line.

If you can have what's called a fire base and then a maneuver element, then the enemy tank has an option. It can attack the guy sitting there by firing precise shots at you, or the German tank can attack the flank element coming from the side and the 76 millimeter gun on two of these tanks would actually destroy a Tiger. (gasps) Well, being hidden, the German tank has decided to advance out of the smoke instead of just sitting there and waiting for whatever the enemy was going to do. The Germans were very, very big on individual initiative. The concept is called Auftragstaktik.

Today we use a development called Mission Command. But the bottom line is that you don't wait for orders, but rather take the initiative and make a decision on the spot. And that is exactly what the Germans have done here. - Fivel, put it in his (beep) where the armor is thin. - I know I should (bleep) hit him. - The radical is accurate for an American tank from World War II. And Shia, in this case he is using the coaxial telescope. Then you will see graduations in the radical. Each graduation is for a type of round in a certain range.

So if your target is, say, 800 yards, you'll raise the gun so that the 800-yard graduation is on the target. So the main cause of disappearances in World War II was range estimation error. If you miss the range, it doesn't matter if your aim is correct, you will go over or fall short. That's why we now have modern fire control systems to do all those calculations for you. (bullets ringing) - Again! (dramatic music) - If you're into this type of knife fight, I wouldn't recommend going into it. The first bullet ignited the engine, but that doesn't necessarily mean the tank and turret crew can't fire yet.

You say you shoot at a tank until it burns or changes shape. So keep shooting until you know the threat is gone. This scene is an easy nine. What "Fury" perhaps lacks in technical precision, it more than makes up for in understanding the experience of being a tank crewman. (dramatic music) (gun screech) This is absolutely correct. There are artillery teams on each side of the Sponson. The tank is based on a Mark VII International, which was a late World War I tank built by both the United Kingdom and the United States. And at that time, the British tanks, the heavy tanks, had what were called Sponson guns.

The turret, which was not on the Mark VIII. (screaming) Shouting instructions at each other wouldn't happen. It's too loud. Inside a World War I tank, the engine took up the entire half of the tank. It was a huge noise. What he does there is use hand signals. That's the only way to communicate inside a World War I tank. (dramatic music) (explosion) Firing a gun with anything in the barrel is bad. You are at risk of suffering exactly what happened here. It's called a petal. When the gun barrel opens like petals like a flower and your gun is ready.

You will often see that a tank has a rubber cap on the end simply to keep dirt out. And it's designed so you can shoot through the barrel cover. (dramatic music) To my knowledge, tank fighting has never been trained in any army. Personally, I would have stuck my head out and used a gun, but again, it wasn't very dramatic and it would suck for Indie. I'd have to give the scene maybe a three for feasibility reasons. (dramatic music) (people screaming) A tiger has appeared on the scene. A tiger had mythical status in World War II. He had a reputation because he was very, very difficult to kill and because he had a tremendous weapon, the 8.8 centimeter was lethal to basically everything.

The problem is that it looks a lot like a Panzer IV, which is much more common. In fact, historians have found very few times on the Western Front that American soldiers have encountered a tiger. But for dramatic purposes, a Tiger is fine. (dramatic music) This was quite realistic. The drivers are absolutely blind inside their tanks and completely dependent on the commander's instructions. This is how you would approach a tank below line of sight, below the depression level at which weapons can be aimed at you. (tank screech) They go by the wheels. As the Tiger was a revolutionary tank, it was heavily armored throughout.

And if you're infantry and don't have high velocity guns, the best thing you can do is disable the tank and get what's called a mobility kill. To immobilize the tank. Your two options will be the engine compartment or the undercarriage. And the only thing these sticky bombs will have any particular effect on is the undercarriage. So the sticky bomb was in the manual, but it's also almost a weapon of desperation. The military is supposed to give you tools for the job. At the end of World War II, you're talking about the bazooka. Now the problem is that you only have a limited number of bazooka ammunition and a bazooka is only as effective against something as heavily armored as a Tiger.

So, to begin with, you're in desperation mode. - Both sides! Get on board! Get a grenade! - Now we see one of the problems with a tank that works alone. A tank shouldn't work alone for several reasons, but when you have infantry, an infestation we could call tankers, crawling on your tank, there is a process called scratching your friend's back. What you do is talk on the radio, call your friend with a machine gun and he will machine gun your tank. Of course, the bullets won't affect your tank, you're in a tank, but they will largely clear or delouse the infantry crawling on your tank. (shots fired) And that is your example of delousing.

So the 20 millimeter anti-aircraft gun, like any anti-aircraft gun with a high rate of fire, you aim it horizontally and you will make a large number of infantry. If there is any great myth about tanks, it is probably that they are invulnerable fortresses. In reality, they are not invulnerable at all and are absolutely dependent on the other parts of the Combined Arms team. You have the desperation of lightly armed infantry. You have this back scratching. You have the immobilization of a very dangerous tank. I mean this is easily on the nine scale. - Hello, I'm Mike Elliott, a 26-year-old combat veteran.

I served 11 years in the US Army Golden Knight Parachute Team. I have over 16,000 skydives, 6,000 tandems, 100 static line jumps, and about 20 military free fall jumps. Today we will see skydiving scenes in movies. (dramatic music) - Come on, come on, come on. - So I think you did the right procedures. With military free fall jumpers in combat gear, they have their O2 masks on, goggles. There are many moving parts. Then there is a chance that something may come loose. It takes about 15 seconds to fix your O2 tube and put it back into your helmet. You can hold your breath for up to a minute and still be fine.

So he had plenty of time to fix his mask and still leave the plane. (dramatic music) His body position is very correct here. It's in what we call a diving position. And it is very important to have the correct body position. Basically you have to learn to push air with your body. So the wind basically hits you around the waist and chest area, allowing the wind to be symmetrical around your body so you can gain stability after exiting the plane. - 25,000 feet. -You did a great job as a HALO jumper. Basically, HALO is high altitude, low aperture, meaning you exit the plane at over 15,000 feet.

You must have some type of breathing apparatus both on the plane and on your body. As far as shape is concerned, there is no different shape with HALO. It is called the boxman position or bow position. Everything he is doing in this scene is done correctly. Your knees are bent, your pelvis pushed forward, and your arms pushed back. (dramatic music) That's a pretty gnarly looking storm. I've never had to jump into clouds and lightning, and it's not even approved by the Federal Aviation Administration. With clouds, you can't see the ground and you can get struck by lightning.

And if you fly with other jumpers, you run the risk of bumping into someone else. And when you crash into another person at 120 miles per hour, you will suffer serious injuries. (heavy breathing) - 4,000. Implement, implement, implement! - I like that the body position of both actors in this film is correct. And if you are unconscious and you will be on your back because your arms and legs are the lowest parts of your body. Then gravity will put you on your back. I would probably rate this a maximum of seven. Those are all unique maneuvers that could possibly occur. (air rushing) A total of five in this scene from the ramp to the exit.

In a military free fall operation, each group that leaves the plane has a team leader and you guide all the guys. So they're gathering around him so they can see what's going on. And that is the same formation in which they remain during their exit and when they go into free fall. As you can see here, they jump at night. Everything becomes very, very difficult at night because you're flying through NOD or just naked eye and you can't see the obstacles, you can't see the ground coming. And in the military you have the static line round jumps like the 82nd Air Division 1 and you have the army parachute team, which are demonstration types and competitive.

On the Special Operations side, the US Navy Seals or the Delta Force or the Special Forces, these guys are trained to put that parachute where they need to put it to do what they need to do best. So if these guys are illustrating from the special ops side, yeah, that's something that can definitely be done. (dramatic music) In this particular scene, they are doing HALO, special ops soldiers, their thing is to be as stealthy, quiet and dark as they can. And the premise of a HALO jump is that soldiers could go up to 40 or 50 miles away at 25,000 feet, open their parachute at 20,000 feet, and they can enter silently, stealthily, undetected from miles away.

For this, I don't know why they would have smoke, especially, you don't see smoke at night. It is mandatory to have flashing lights on your body when flying at night, so other planes can see you. Special Operations guys, you will not have lights or flares because you will enter as stealthily and as quietly as possible tobe able to carry out the mission once they reach the ground. The landing, as you see, is an extremely narrow area. The fitted parachutes used by the special operations military are called MC-4/MC-5. Very large and very docile parachutes. They can definitely land in buildings and tight areas.

I don't think they would land anything that tight. It's not a bad looking clip at all. I would give them a six. (people screaming) (dramatic music) Being able to grab and hold is practically impossible. That parachute is designed for one person and you are not hooked up correctly like you would if you were doing a tandem. But if I knew there was a chance that the parachute could save both of our lives, then I would try to do it. (dramatic music) I was trying to look and see what his final reading was. I couldn't really see it, I see it's flashing at low altitude, but we have no idea how low they are before they open their main parachute. 2500 feet is when you open your main parachute.

It takes time for those things to fully open up. With today's parachute systems, we have what we call an automatic opening device. It will open your reserve parachute and is designed to open at low altitude. So their main parachute, which they're using in this scene, could open at such a low altitude, it's not very realistic. (dramatic music) (person screaming) Having someone stick to you and land on a target that is not doing a tandem is absolutely impossible. It's called parachuteaccuracy. Two people under a parachute, someone is bound to break a few ankles. In that case, they should have done what we call a parachute drop, where you hit the balls of your feet, your calves, your thighs, and your buttocks, which is the softest part of your body.

So trying to land and roll to those soft sides of your body is kind of like what they did in this scene, but there's just no way you can see enough around that person to fly that parachute into a target area. I'm going to rate these guys a five. Wow, I mean, every time I see a static line operation at this depth, it gives me chills thinking about the soldiers of World War II, the forefathers of skydiving. With static line jumping, it is the most convenient way to place soldiers on the battlefield. If you look at some of the actual footage that happened on D-Day and Market Garden, that's basically what you see.

Many, many parachutes in the air at any given time. (squeaky lines) So, this is absolutely 100% correct. In fact, I was an airborne instructor for three years, where I trained paratroopers to become skydivers. And the best way to get off the plane is to basically push the guy in front of you toward the door so you can get out as quickly as possible, and as you get out, you get into a good steady body position, which is your hands on the harness. , feet and knees together. And that static line actually pulls on your parachute and your parachute opens automatically.

I'm going to rate this a 10. Just amazing every time I see what this guy did for us in WWII.