Asked 7 years ago. Active 1 year, 8 months ago. Viewed 87k times. Improve this question. Vikki Especially in video games. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. David Richerby David Richerby Note that some aircraft of the time had dive brakes to slow them down when dive-bombing. Compared to the airbrakes the effect of the siren was insignificant.
But the siren did have noticeable effect on level flight. Adding minutes to the time to get to target isn't bad. And they weren't going to have to dogfight, they were never designed for that. Saving resources for use elsewhere was probably a bigger factor in not fitting them on later models.
It became better when you could turn off the propeller by means of a switch. Despite the annoyances of the Stuka siren, they were quite effective in psychological warfare. After , few Luftwaffe planes were outfitted with the sirens after several complaints were voiced and for the fact that they were merely decorative. If you need a refresher on how iconic the sound of the Stuka Siren, look no further than this video.
Sound Of Death. In the Action Prologue of GoldenEye , when Bond can't pull a plane out of a dive until the last second. Played with in Jurassic World. Sirens give a Red Alert as pterosaurs swoop down on the packed resort area. They sound more like WW2 air raid sirens than a modern evacuation alarm.
A lower-pitched modification of the sound accompanies Hagrid's motorcycle landing at the beginning of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Birds, somehow, are capable of this in Birdemic. Star Wars has the definitive sci-fi equivalent in the form of the twin ion engines of The Empire's TIE fighters, which emit a haunting shriek that serves the same purpose that the effect does in war movies.
Pessimal , the Air Watch operate broomsticks fitted with technomagic sirens. Normally these make the standard two-tone police sound. But the Air Witches, if flying for more military reasons, can reset them to make a single frightening screaming noise — especially if in a power-dive. Live-Action Television.
The Mandalorian : the eponymous character's ship, the Razor Crest , emits that sound when diving at one point in Season 2. The film of the album actually depicts the moment of his death as a Stuka dives on his position, complete with Bomb Whistle.
Video Games. Day of Infamy plays this straight since there are actual Stuka dive bombers available to the Wehrmacht faction which emits this sound as it makes its drop, giving a clear warning to anyone nearby.
PlanetSide 2 has Stuka horns available via Micro Transactions on all empire specific fighters. However, it functions as an airhorn rather than as a function of the vehicle's speed, allowing it to be used when hovering or smashing into the ground upside down.
Each ESF also has a unique engine note when moving at high speed, with the New Conglomerate's Reaver producing a high-pitched wail that is not too dissimilar to the Stuka's. War Thunder has this on the early model Stukas, being historically accurate. The Stuka first saw service in the Spanish Civil War. Then it was used against Polish civilians in Early on, it was fitted with a wind-driven siren that uttered a banshee scream at maximum dive speed. Of course that soon lost its novelty, while it kept reducing airspeeds by 15 miles-an-hour.
They abandoned the siren. But, beyond the Stuka's horrific use, I'm troubled by two design elements: Airplanes were in the midst of a leap forward; Stukas were yesterday's news as soon as they flew. They also set up a strange contradiction between beauty and ugliness. Germany had bought four primitive Curtiss dive bombers in the early s. Those were still old biplanes, but the Germans knew they were the warplane of the future.
A young designer, Hermann Pohlmann, responded with a series of attempts to build a competitor. By , he'd given the Stuka its basic form. Pohlmann was committed to the art deco ideal of simplicity and angularity. The Stuka had both: It was a low winged monoplane with a fixed landing gear.
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