Amazing weapons created by man over the centuries.
People – being creative and resourceful. However, often these creative qualities are directed in the direction of destruction of their own kind. Throughout history, people have invented new ways of eliminating their own kind. And some of the weapons, it should be said, was quite extraordinary.
1. “Sticky bomb”
“Sticky bomb” was exactly what it sounds – a highly explosive device, covered with sticky substance. These developed in Britain during the Second world war, the bombs had to stick to enemy tanks and blow them up. But the British did not consider one thing – the fact that tanks are usually covered with mud or earth to which the explosives are just not sticking.
2. “Vomit beam”
Led incapacitator (also known as a gag ray) “shoots” a beam of led lights to cause the target a headache and disorient her so that the victim will begin vomiting and, possibly, an attack of epilepsy. Development cost $ 800,000 and the results of the tests showed satisfactory results.
3. FP45 Liberator
The French Resistance during the Second world war received a shipment of arms from the United States to fight the Nazis. All is good, except for the fact that the guns were just terrible. FP45 Liberator was designed to be as cheap and mass weapons, and he worked accordingly to its price. Maximum firing range was 7 meters, and the accuracy… it was easier to hit the target by throwing her the gun. Also the gun was a single shot.
4. The corpse
Apparently, the bodies can influence the course of the battle… at least they did this during the Second world war. The body of a homeless Welshman named Glinder Michael, committed suicide, was used to deliver false information to the Germans. The body was dressed in an officer’s uniform and thrown into the sea with false documents and fake photographs of the family. Oddly enough, it worked, and the Germans moved troops based on information found on the body.
5. Tanks Tauchpanzer
Tanks Tauchpanzer were created by the Nazis for the invasion of Britain. The idea was that the tanks will pass through the sea. Across the channel width 240 miles on the bottom… had to pass tanks. More than 200 cars were “waterproofed” with a sealant, and breathing were added to the long hoses. Interestingly, this could work, if the seabed was flat and hard. First, tanks could not drive over the rocks at the bottom. And secondly, once the tanks stopped, they immediately bogged down in the sand.
6. Flamethrower Grossflammenwerfer
It is trial and error help to reach new heights. Apparently, the flamethrowers was no exception. During the First world war, the German army were armed with Grossflammenwerfer flamethrower, which had to carry no less than two people. In addition to its size, the design was extremely unfortunate and explode “at the slightest sneeze”.
7. The Gun Is Apache
The gun of the Apache, manufactured in the USA in 1880, the engineers tried to combine a revolver, knife and brass knuckles. Individually, these weapons were very useful, but when you combine the design turned out unusable. The knife was loose and “went away”, and the gun was extremely inaccurate. Except that the brass knuckles were “working” fine, except that when the blow was hard not to shoot myself, given that the trigger was not protected.
8. Krummlauf Rifle
The Krummlauf was a rifle, long barrel, angled 30 to 45 degrees. It was designed by the Nazis to shoot from cover and from around the corner.
9. “Monitor Novgorod”
Russia has made a round of the military ship called “Monitor Novgorod” for use during the Russo-Turkish war. The ship was equipped with two large guns mounted at the top that can spin and shoot. The problem was that the ship was so small that the recoil was making the ship unmanageable.
10. Nuka Launcher – hand nuclear warhead
Nuka Launcher is not a weapon from Fallout, this is the real project. Someone’s “bright head” thought that it would be nice to have a hand gun that shoots nuclear warheads. The maximum range of defeat M65 Davy Crockett, which was mounted on a tripod and was served by three people, was 4 kilometers.
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