Hey YouTube, Jim here! Welcome to Top10Archive! Despite what you hear and see in war movies,
the true terrifying sounds of war may not be quite what you expect.
For those of you who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder due to warfare, this may not
be the video for you, and we advise that you proceed with extreme caution. For the rest of us,
here is just a little taste of what our military men and women often have to endure. Here are the
Top 10 Most Terrifying Sounds Of War. 10. MG42 Machine Gun
All guns sound the same to some, but to those who know them, this MG42 Machine Gun
sounds like both innovation and death, which was German-engineered in 1942.
Easily capable of a murderous 1,500 rounds per minute, the Americans called it "Hitler’s
Buzzsaw", because of its shredding sound it makes as the bullets cut through the air.
The weapon became such a threat to the Americans, that they had to make a training
video specifically for the troops to learn to deal with the noise without being too
psychologically affected. 9. Afghanistan Firefight
What was it like to be in the middle of a firefight in Afghanistan? American fighters
were wearing body armor and had a much higher likelihood of surviving than the Taliban soldiers.
In the conflict, which is still ongoing, there has been roughly 2,370 U.S military,
and 1,720 U.S. Civilian contractor deaths, 3,500 coalition casualties which span over 35 countries,
and more than 111,000 Afghanistan soldiers, militants, and civilians have been killed.
8. American B-52 Bomber When you hear “B-52 bomber” you might imagine
something like a machine gun. Ammo is a sound that war movies have desensitized us to. This bomber?
It’s no machine gun. It’s more like the banshee you see in a Japanese horror film, but as it wails
its way closer to you, it drops a bomb so big it’ll annihilate anything in its path. The B-52
bomber was made by Boeing and has been upgraded and updated through time. It’s capable of carrying
up to 70,000 pounds of weapons and in 1956, dropped a nuclear bomb over the Bikini Atoll.
7. V1- Rocket Designed by the Germans during the 2nd World War,
this nightmare of a bomb is also known as a buzz bomb, or Doodlebug. The V-1 Rocket spread
terror in the streets of London during a strategic bombing that started on June 13th, 1944. The
bombing continued into October of that year, after a total of 9,521 V-1 bombs had been sent crashing
into London. Perhaps the most terrifying aspect of the V1-Rockets was not just its loud pulsejet,
but the eerie silence before impact, as the rocket would run out of fuel.
6. Jericho's Trumpets
One of the scariest sounds of WWII was the Stuka siren, made by the German Stuka dive bomber. The
bombers were notorious for sounding alarms moments before destroying whatever was in their path.
They called these sirens “Jericho’s Trumpets”, as a reference to the Old Testament.
5. Wandering Soul While guns, bombs,
and sirens are all terrifying noises, there’s probably nothing less expected during war
than ghosts. You surely expect to deal with the horrors of people who want to kill you,
but as far as you know, they’re alive too. Now imagine walking through dense tropical forest
and hearing a dead man telling you to turn around. Would you do it? In Vietnam, it seems the army
exploited the locals’ belief in spirits and the afterlife by playing sounds of what was meant
to be a ghost father speaking to his daughter and then warning other soldiers to go home.
Whether or not it worked, it’s certainly a scary tactic that would make me turn right around.
4. A-10 Warthog The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunder II,
or A-10 Warthog for short, was originally produced in 1972, but they are still in use and production
today. The Warthog creates a noise when firing that sounds like millions of firecrackers
going off at once. It’s so powerful that no shelter seems to protect you from its wrath.
3. American AC-47 Spooky (gunship) No, not an AK-47. It’s actually an
American AC-47, which is a plane that sounds like lightning when it fires.
But you’d be mistaken to think that it’s just a strong storm coming at you. Well,
at least a storm of rain. It’s actually small guns raining fire on anything below it. If you
thought getting fired at from across a field was scary, imagine it coming down on you like rain.
Each plane was equipped with 3 Gatling guns capable of shooting 6,000 rounds per minute.
2. AK-47 firefight What does an AK-47 sound like when you’re out
in the trenches? A lot like what you’d imagine. You’re walking through and hearing the ripping
and whooshing sound that tears through trees, walls, and even the bodies of those around you.
What do you do then? It’s no surprise why soldiers come out of war with paralyzing PTSD.
1. Air raids Air raids are what
you hear about most in WWII movies. Air Raids are scheduled strategic bombings,
and are generally attributed as key components for many WWII battles. Their main targets were
industrial and political infrastructure, and even civilian populations to terrorize them.
The sounds would include the planes, the drops of the bombs, explosions,
cracking and crashing of buildings and finally, the cries and screams of those hurt and killed.
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