Japanese WW2 Lunge Mines - Insane and Ineffective

An overview of Japanese Lunge Mines used during WW2 featuring some amusing video game footage.

Movies/Video Games Featured:

My Way 2011
Battlefield V (Video Game)
Lego Animation (Daddy Xi)
Roblox (Video Game)
Stalingrad 1993
Tali-Ihantala 1944 (2007)
The Bridge at Remagen 1969
The Bridge 1959
Letters From Iwo Jima 2006

#ww2 #war

[JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

My use of the word "Melt" was my lazy way of saying the copper liner deforms or collapses into a particle jet. Though these rounds are called "HEAT" rounds temperature has little to do with the effect of a HEAT round. The penetrating effect is kinetic. The copper liner pierces through the armor - there is no melting that takes place through the armor.

[michaeltriola]

Early war Japan: Impressive organization, tactics and examples of bravery. Late war Japan: “How do we unalive ourselves the most creatively?”

[always-steelers]

The scenes from the movie my way were great! That is one of the greatest war movies ever!

[KB-]

I was always shocked you wouldn't die when using these in BF5 lol

[xcom]

The totally out of place Mexican music at the end is a masterful finishing stroke. Well done, sir.

[ambush_akula]

“You don’t want to sell me death sticks👋”

[keithalaird]

I remember reading about another suicide anti tank weapon the Japanese used in Burma. It was a 250 or 500# contact fused aircraft bomb in a foxhole. A soldier was given a rock and told to hit the fuse with the rock when a British tank showed up. This didn’t work well. a classic example was when a British officer came up on one of these positions. The Japanese soldier poked his head out of the foxhole, realized it wasn’t a tank, and poked his head back into the foxhole to wait for a tank. The British officer drew his sidearm and shot the soldier…

[andrewtaylor]

I mean the HEAT charge still needs some force to counter its own explosive charge. Otherwise it’s just a rocket engine traveling back the way it came. Things like the Panzerfaust and most HEAT rounds rely on the weapons kinetic energy pushing the weapon towards the target to hold it against the target just long enough for the energy of the heat charge to be expended against and through the armor. But with the Japanese Baka stick the small Japanese man stabbing the tank with it provides much less resistance than the tanks armor meaning he’s gonna be flying on his broomstick (boomstick?) like Harry Potter. Even with the shaped charges focusing lens.

[candidate]

the lung mine was simple and very easy to made. it was not a good weapon, but still extremly useful if u dont have any other antitank weapon. 3:15 its obviously using mine was so impractical that they arent even worth mentioning.

[unclekevin]

If they had adapted it for use with a Roman Ballista, which was accurate up to 500 meters, then it would have been quite effective. At least it would have been better than trying to run up to a tank and throw.

[CKC_Productions]

I’m not sure if the Vietnamese used a weapon like the Lunge Mine during the Indochina War/ Vietnam War.🤔🇻🇳

[warpartyattheoutpost]

"Japanese Death Sticks"... I thought this video was going to be about the ubiquitous cigarettes in anime.

[matthieubollea]

Smart to call a weapon from the body part which is blasted during any use

[mrbushi]

They are insanely satisfying to use in Enlisted and in Bolt Action

[kirovfactory]

Chinese netizens refer to it as the "Showa pleasure wand"

[TheBastered]

What I realize, these weapons r still useful, it's just they did it wrong. just place them like spike traps but in trees or shrub areas, it is another landmine but it would be still useless still, so it is better to make a chain reaction with the other lance for whatever tanks roll over the landmine or knock into it. At the time being, the lance seem meant to stick into the floor at an angle of at least 45 degrees through 70 degrees like lances trench. Another theory is to have the thing drop on top enemies tank but I think their imagination went overboard, the next one was obvious to remove the stick and place a timer on the explosive, making the trap log attach to the explosive charge seems possible but not practical for u need the log to get swinging at a tank that triggers the trap for the log to swing towards it. There is too many ideas seems far fetch but we all know reality the lunge mines is never meant for human to be held by hand.

[monkchips]

In a terrible way this reminds me of a honeybadger on a stick.

[circlingoverland]

Sadly the lunge mine was not issued with a can of silver spray paint to ensure that the user would ride forever all shiny and chrome after his heroic charge was witnessed.

[aliendeathpunch]

A fitting weapon for them. They just have to think that they are samurai warriors charging in a one way trip with pole weapon.

[harambetidepod]

That's just an RPG with extra steps.