Military Power

What do you think are the Wierdest Military inventions ever? Can be in the form of a "top 10" list if you want, but don't have to.

Fart Bomb, et al

In 1994, the Wright Laboratory in Ohio wrote a memo that proposed some interesting weapons. On the list were several, er, special items: a flatulence bomb; a bomb that would cause the enemy to develop halitosis; and another bomb that would make all the men in an enemy unit become gay.

Soviet Doomsday Weapon

In the movie Dr. Strangelove the world is annihilated, in part, because of a doomsday weapon created by the Soviets. The fictional weapon was rigged to destroy all life on Earth if the Soviet Union was ever nuked. The ultimate fail-safe, it couldn’t be disarmed.

Sounds crazy, right?

The Soviets didn’t seem to the think so. According to the book Doomsday Men and several papers on the subject by U.S. analysts, the Soviet Union actually built and activated a very similar weapon during the 1980s.

Oh, and as of 2007, there was no evidence that it has ever been disarmed.

I'd say the Krummlauf Attachment

The Great Panjandrum
Thread on it here

Ah, yes, the Great Panjandrum. That one didn't go over too well.

There was also a Project Pigeon. It would have worked, but Congress could just not take it seriously.
More info: http://historywired.si.edu/object.cfm?ID=353

The Germans also tried many weird weapons, such as a sound gun and a "vortex" air cannon. These we documented on the program "Weird Weapons of the Axis" on The History Channel. I am having trouble finding a reliable site to cite this information from. This is the closest I could find.
http://anonymous-generaltopics.blogspot.com/2008/05/sound-cannon-american-officer-stands-in.html

Was it the Wind Cannon?

Yes, that is the one.

Toilet Bomb

In October 1965, CDR Clarence W. Stoddard, Jr., Executive Officer of VA-25 "Fist of the Fleet", flying an A-1H Skyraider, NE/572 "Paper Tiger II" from Carrier Air Wing Two aboard USS Midway carried a special bomb to the North Vietnamese in commemoration of the 6-millionth pound of ordnance dropped. This bomb was unique because of the type... it was a toilet!

Oh, around 1718...a man by the name of James Puckle invented a gun which could shoot 63 shots in seven minutes. That's actually pretty good for that time period, but no where close to what we have to today. So here is the 'weird' part of this military invention...Puckle designed this gun to fire two types of bullets. These two bullets were round and square. The round bullet was designed to kill Christians while the square bullet was designed to kill Muslims. Sounds like steaks and silver for vampires and werewolves.

Puckle said that the square bullets would hurt more, that's why they were designed for Muslims.

Now how weird and ignorant is this guy and his invention?



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