Secret German and Italian Naval Weapons of World War 2 | Submarines and Torpedo Boats | Documentary

German? Thats only ITALIAN!!

"German and Italian"...????...What?!
These are just Italians. Remove the video and continue to ignore us, please.

This was only Italian special forces ,the X MAS or well known like decima flottiglia Mas .The "maiali " (in English pigs) were manned torpedo of the Italian royal navy .The XMas was an Italian commando frogman .Heroic actions were the damage of the Valiant and the Queen Elizabeth .The title is incorrect .This is only Italian secret weapons .Check on internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decima_Flottiglia_MAS

Excellent stuff mate, please keep them coming.

German??? Il maiale era solo Italiano ed era per gli incursori

Underwater sea snipers,what's wrong with that?

Nice overview presented here, it would suck to be seen and depth-charged while using one of these though!.

thanks for the video Dom!

魚雷快艇是以魚雷為主要武器，用於近海作戰的小型戰鬥艦艇。除了執行攻擊任務以外，也可擔負巡邏、警戒、反潛、布雷等其他任務。然而，隨著二戰結束後各國海軍逐漸普遍列裝性能更為先進的反艦導彈，魚雷快艇基本上已經被飛彈快艇所取代，在海戰上繼續承擔水面快速突擊等戰術任務。

魚雷快艇噸位小，航速高，機動靈活，排水量通常為數十噸至數百噸，航行速度30到40節，有的可達50節，續航能力500－3000海里。艇上裝有魚雷2至4枚，有些快艇還加裝20至76毫米口徑艦炮，噸位較大的快艇還可能包含水雷、深水炸彈等。搭配的感測系統有搜索、探測、武器控制、通信導航、電子作戰等。

I'm Italian. These are " Maiali" translate to "Pigs" in English language. Respect to this weapon and theirs drivers...

the Anglo-American propaganda machine down played the success of the Italian weapons and military maneuvers against the allies to the point that their phony baloney convinced the world that the Italians had a terrible war machine, however, anyone with a brain and a relative who had to go up against them would know that the most effective seamen against the allies, as well as watercrafts, were designed and successfully executed by Italian naval forces. Also, most of the North African Axis campaign was fought by Italians under German command who turned out to be as effective, professional and as successful as their German counterpart who amassed the best fighting force that the Axis threw against the British and American, doing with far less equipment, supply and personnel than those of the Allies. One Italian force headed by Rodolfo Graziani, pushed the British from one end of Africa to the other in what was then the biggest retreat suffered by a nation in human history.
  in addition, the most successful aircraft used during the war against the british (the bombing of London) to great effect were the Italian aircraft with the alfa Romeo engines and a lot more.
  what cost Italy the war: poor military decisions ordered by Mussolini himself against the advice of his generals(Mussolini moved up in rank only to the level of corporal); corruption by Northern Italian politicians who accommodated the Allies and bilked Italy of desperately needed funds, raw material and military weapons (the so-called Partisans who were pro-Communist and nominally Italian and whose existence was created by the CIA) as well as the one and only traitor known from the South, mobster Lucky Luciano, backing the Allies because of the vendetta he had against the Fascists for effectively and brutally putting the mafia and his mobster friends out of commission during the war. he later regretted the move, witnessing that, unlike as was the case with  the multicultural, multiethnic, multiracial Allies, very few Italian women were raped by the, at least, racially homogeneous Nazi soldiers even at the height of animosity between Italy and Germany towards the end of the war.
  Even the atrocities committed by the Nazis against innocent Italians (mostly citizens-though more than 90000 Italian soldier were put into labor camps)) paled in comparison to American, British and French atrocities against the Italian people(ex: bombing of 900 year old abbey Monte Cassino, killing all the innocent monks there; the Sicilian Massacre whereby 200 men were executed by Allied personnel for no just cause, the Moroccan Rape of Rome where 60,000 Italian women were raped in only 2 days) and not to mention the 2 million Italians that died due to direct result of their attacks against Italy, all of these incidents squelched by the censors in those countries to prevent discovery by their public at large, who would have strung them up for war crimes; the Sicilian massacres witnessed by my grandfather and compatriots he never met that corroborated testimony of these massacres, committed against innocent Italian men, women and even children (rapes-both married women and underage children- and human target practice). these incidents in particular were prosecuted at the Hague along with other Allied atrocities during WWII.

Although this vintage War Department information film is a good description of this type of weapons platform they propaganda value cannot be overlooked for with the sole exception of the 'human torpedo' which the Allies used only as a transport tool to give greater range to scuba divers they also used these same tools.

the soldiers that you see in the beginning are marine special forces of 10 brigade mas (son of the arditi's the italian first anfibious spec forces, firsts in the world)...now this unit is called comsubim and they have actually trained the firsts groups of american navy seals in the nato context...we have invented amphibious special forces

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Great post! All these American films make it sound as though machines and tactics like these were underhand and nasty, the sort of things only bad people get up to. But they conveniently ignore the fact that, not only did the US and UK employ such machines and tactics, but they invented many of them! It would be good to see similar videos from the viewpoint of the opposing forces, (with the necessary subtitles, of course - the people of many foreign countries speak English, but the courtesy is very seldom returned!) and to see to what extent they saw Western behaviour in this respect...

Really, really, interesting and thanks much for posting.

You have any UDT film were they never surface? Fin Hard, Thank you for this post.

second world war simply everyone and I mean everyone had BALLS like a RHINO

I don't know where you find these old films but they are great thanks for posting them