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October 15, 2026 3.3x its usual first day Up Close With The Armament Of The BF-109 The video opened at a pace of 80,589 views a day, 3.3 times a normal first day on this channel (24,488).

This week on the channel +2.5M views this week

Kursk, Barbarossa or the day Hitler declared war on America? IWM's turning-point question passes two million

The twelve-day-old film works backward through the war in search of the moment Germany lost, while a navigator's memories of the Mosquito a…

Channel: Imperial War Museums · Story of October 5, 2026

The video drawing the most views now

The Reason Britain Failed at Suez

Video published

October 21, 2026

Video views so far

130,771

Video views, pace per day

35,156

Views on its first day

66,852

Position on Trari and in the category

The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.

The channel's share of the category

1.4% of all views the category's channels gained this week

Subscriber growth this week

0.1% on this channel, 0.0% on the category's middle channel

The channel's latest videos

The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views	Per day	First day	Likes	Comments
This Kamikaze Plane Was Found 50 years Later!	October 22, 2026	0:40 short	77,984	32,282	56,181	1,710	16
The Reason Britain Failed at Suez	October 21, 2026	18:46	130,771	35,156	66,852	2,143	243
Tornado Navigation Was Originally Done on a Cassette!	October 20, 2026	0:35 short	149,064	12,416	74,079	1,904	42
Is the Tornado BETTER than the F-14 Tomcat?	October 18, 2026	0:39 short	151,815	11,675	49,810	2,498	111
How the Tornado GR4 Became the RAF's Go-To Jet	October 16, 2026	0:42 short	8,247	88	4,549	429	8
Up Close With The Armament Of The BF-109	October 14, 2026	0:42 short	150,332	1,430	85,241	2,318	53
BF-109 Markings, Explained	October 12, 2026	0:46 short	186,223	1,798	63,049	3,113	91
Who Carved Their Name Into Our BF-109?	October 10, 2026	0:38 short	41,787	286	24,286	1,379	36
This BF109 Is In AMAZING Condition	October 8, 2026	0:42 short	725,900	1,777	60,884	9,685	210
Why is Korea Divided?	October 7, 2026	14:02	157,704	2,083	68,192	2,094	222
Bf 109 vs Spitfire - Which was Better?	October 6, 2026	0:37 short	188,355	966	66,484	2,175	107
Even German Pilots Thought the Spitfire Was the Best	October 3, 2026	0:39 short	49,811	38	21,511	1,086	97
The Mosquito "could do ANYTHING" says WW2 Navigator	September 30, 2026	0:43 short	42,063	41	11,986	1,689	51
How These Tiny Cards Powered Cold War Espionage	September 28, 2026	0:55 short	11,771	16	4,821	702	11
This License Plate Let Britain Spy LEGALLY	September 23, 2026	0:47 short	75,345	24	-	2,747	54

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views

16.6 in the category: 25.4

comments per 1,000 views

0.6 in the category: 1.9

a video's usual first day on this channel

54,155 views

short vs long

13 short (up to 3 minutes), 2 long
average views per short video: 142,976
average views per long video: 144,237

What happened on the channel in the last 30 days

The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.

1. October 15, 2026Video taking offUp Close With The Armament Of The BF-109 The video opened at a pace of 80,589 views a day, 3.3 times a normal first day on this channel (24,488).
2. October 14, 2026Video surgingBlackbird Pilots Answer Spy Plane Questions The video ran that day at 30,512 views a day, 3.5 times its usual pace (8,603).
3. October 13, 2026Video surgingBlackbird Pilots Answer Spy Plane Questions The video ran that day at 25,370 views a day, 3.8 times its usual pace (6,740).
4. October 12, 2026Video surgingBlackbird Pilots Answer Spy Plane Questions The video ran that day at 23,873 views a day, 4.9 times its usual pace (4,837).
5. October 12, 2026Video surgingThis BF109 Is In AMAZING Condition The video ran that day at 127,004 views a day, 2.8 times its usual pace (44,758).
6. September 28, 2026MilestoneWhat Was The Turning Point of WW2? The video passed 1,000,000 views.