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The 10 most bizarre weapons of World War II
Here is a look at some of the most bizarre, useless, and downright insane weapons developed on both sides during WWII. 1. A ship-mounted aerial mine rocket launcher. Crewman on HMS King George V ...
Wunderwaffe
V-1 flying bomb V-2 missile V-3 cannon V-2 rocket at Peenemünde Museum H.IX V3 flying wing reproduction at the San Diego Air and Space Museum. Wunderwaffe (German pronunciation: [ˈvʊndɐˌvafə]) is a German word meaning "wonder-weapon" and was a term assigned during World War II by Nazi Germany's propaganda ministry to some revolutionary "superweapons". ". Most of these weapons however ...
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Secret WW2 Weapons You've Never Heard About Until Now. Every war has its secret weapons, and probably none had more than the Second World War. Even at the time, the German love of "wonder weapons" was well-known, and made a fine psychological weapon in itself. So did the Reich's love of science and engineering.
List of prototype World War II combat vehicles
Type 4 Ho-To SPG prototype with a Type 38 12 cm howitzer. Type 95 heavy tank; 4 built in 1934. Hi-Ro Sha 10 cm cannon self-propelled gun on Type 95 heavy tank chassis. Ji-Ro Type 92 10 cm cannon self-propelled gun on Type 95 heavy tank chassis. Type 97 Chi-Ni medium tank; one prototype built. Type 98 Chi-Ho medium tank; 4 built, two in 1940 and ...
The Panjandrum, The Disastrous Experimental Weapon Of WWII
The Panjandrum, a spinning wheel propelled by rockets, was simply too dangerous. The Panjandrum was designed to reach speeds of 60 miles per hour and to smash through 10-foot walls of concrete. Shaped like a massive wagon wheel, the weapon was equipped with about 70 rockets and packed with explosives.
Strange Weapons from World War II
7. The Windkanone. Of the numerous Nazi Wunderwaffen (wonder weapons) developed during World War II, the Windkanone, or Wind Cannon, was one of the least successful. Rather than launching flak or ...
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U.S. troops in Panama participate in a chemical warfare training exercise with smoke during World War II. Howard R. Wilson/Courtesy of Gregory A. Wilson. In it, she suggested that black and Puerto ...
Second World War Weapons That Failed
Learn about the experimental weapons that failed to make a difference in the Second World War, such as the Panjandrum, the Krummlauf, the Maus, the Covenanter, the TOG, the Maginot Line, the Smith Gun and the White Rabbit. See photographs and object records of these fascinating and often bizarre devices.
11 Jaw-dropping Weapons From World War II You Probably Never ...
From January 11 to February 22, 1945, some 183 rounds were fired. It's target was the recently liberated city of Luxembourg. But it proved to be largely ineffectual; of the 142 rounds that ...
List of World War II firearms of Germany
The following is a list of World War II German Firearms which includes German firearms, ... Experimental lightweight selective-fire weapon, with roller-locked blowback system, only prototypes built prior to end of war. ... List of secondary and special issue World War II infantry weapons;
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Scientific R & D in World War II Spring 2016, Vol. 48, No. 1 By Adam Kline with Robyn Dexter PDF version Enlarge The frontispiece of an OSRD report on studying underwater ballistics illustrates the launching equipment for projectiles and spheres. (Record Group 227, Records of the Office of Scientific Research and Development) It was June 16, 1942, and the United States was still reeling from ...
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Bat Bombs: WWII's Weirdest Experimental Weapon
Bat Bombs: World War II's Project X-Ray. Search through the annals of military history, and you will find some genuinely bizarre weaponry. And between the pigeon-guided missiles, flying tanks, whip swords, and vomit guns, it is clear that humans will try anything once if it means hurting their enemies. However, few weapons are quite so strange ...
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(3) Bat Bombs, an American Experimental Weapon (January 1942): After the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked on US naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, United States entered the WWII. Among different measures against Japanese aggression was a 'Bat Bomb' plan proposed in January 1942 by Lytle Adams, a dentist in Pennsylvania and a ...
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5. The "Purple" Encryption Machine. The German Enigma Machine may be the most famous encryption device of the Second World War, but it was by no means the only one. In 1937, the Japanese ...
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German WW2 rifles While many countries had interesting experimental weapons programs during World War II, none has attracted as much attention as Germany's. Out of German experimental work came the first truly successful assault rifle, the StG44 and also the seeds of the roller locking system that would go on to be used in a wide variety of ...
Tarn: A Terrible British WW2 Experimental Pistol
Tarn: A Terrible British WW2 Experimental Pistol. The Tarn was a 9x19mm pistol developed by a Polish ex=pat designer named Z. de Lubicz Bakanowski. It was a simple blowback design, with a quite heavy slide and recoil spring. It was manufactured by the Swift Rifle Company, and ten examples were made as prototypes. They were tested formally by ...
Japanese Wonder Weapons
Aug 11, 2020. By. Home / Japanese Wonder Weapons. Imagine it's 1945, but a different, counterfactual 1945. World War II rages on. The U.S. strategic bombing campaign is escalating in intensity as its attempts to destroy the enemy's means of production face increasingly determined resistance. Unexpectedly, American forces are encountering ...
Soviet experimental weapons in WW2 : r/WorldWar2
The vortex gun designed to create cyclones to bring down planes was my favorite. And it was actually deployed. But all it did was create a bit of turbulence. Never used again. Not sure about ww2 experimental weapons but I know the soviets made what I like to call the UFO which was officially named the Object 279.
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Category page. This category contains experimental weapons used during World War II. F. Fliegerfaust. M. MKb42 (H) MKb42 (W) R. RPD.
Ukraine Reinvents WWII Secret Weapon With Modern Tech For ...
The Ukrainians have displayed a rare talent at creating new fuzes for old weapons. The most celebrated example is the Johnny or Jonik fuze fitted to Soviet-era PTM-3 anti-tank mines.The original ...
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Here is a look at some of the most bizarre, useless, and downright insane weapons developed on both sides during WWII. 1. A ship-mounted aerial mine rocket launcher. Crewman on HMS King George V ...
V-1 flying bomb V-2 missile V-3 cannon V-2 rocket at Peenemünde Museum H.IX V3 flying wing reproduction at the San Diego Air and Space Museum. Wunderwaffe (German pronunciation: [ˈvʊndɐˌvafə]) is a German word meaning "wonder-weapon" and was a term assigned during World War II by Nazi Germany's propaganda ministry to some revolutionary "superweapons". ". Most of these weapons however ...
Secret WW2 Weapons You've Never Heard About Until Now. Every war has its secret weapons, and probably none had more than the Second World War. Even at the time, the German love of "wonder weapons" was well-known, and made a fine psychological weapon in itself. So did the Reich's love of science and engineering.
Type 4 Ho-To SPG prototype with a Type 38 12 cm howitzer. Type 95 heavy tank; 4 built in 1934. Hi-Ro Sha 10 cm cannon self-propelled gun on Type 95 heavy tank chassis. Ji-Ro Type 92 10 cm cannon self-propelled gun on Type 95 heavy tank chassis. Type 97 Chi-Ni medium tank; one prototype built. Type 98 Chi-Ho medium tank; 4 built, two in 1940 and ...
The Panjandrum, a spinning wheel propelled by rockets, was simply too dangerous. The Panjandrum was designed to reach speeds of 60 miles per hour and to smash through 10-foot walls of concrete. Shaped like a massive wagon wheel, the weapon was equipped with about 70 rockets and packed with explosives.
7. The Windkanone. Of the numerous Nazi Wunderwaffen (wonder weapons) developed during World War II, the Windkanone, or Wind Cannon, was one of the least successful. Rather than launching flak or ...
U.S. troops in Panama participate in a chemical warfare training exercise with smoke during World War II. Howard R. Wilson/Courtesy of Gregory A. Wilson. In it, she suggested that black and Puerto ...
Learn about the experimental weapons that failed to make a difference in the Second World War, such as the Panjandrum, the Krummlauf, the Maus, the Covenanter, the TOG, the Maginot Line, the Smith Gun and the White Rabbit. See photographs and object records of these fascinating and often bizarre devices.
From January 11 to February 22, 1945, some 183 rounds were fired. It's target was the recently liberated city of Luxembourg. But it proved to be largely ineffectual; of the 142 rounds that ...
The following is a list of World War II German Firearms which includes German firearms, ... Experimental lightweight selective-fire weapon, with roller-locked blowback system, only prototypes built prior to end of war. ... List of secondary and special issue World War II infantry weapons;
Scientific R & D in World War II Spring 2016, Vol. 48, No. 1 By Adam Kline with Robyn Dexter PDF version Enlarge The frontispiece of an OSRD report on studying underwater ballistics illustrates the launching equipment for projectiles and spheres. (Record Group 227, Records of the Office of Scientific Research and Development) It was June 16, 1942, and the United States was still reeling from ...
It was around this time that Unit 731 began referring to confined research subjects as "logs," or "Maruta" in Japanese. Study methods in these experiments were barbaric. Vivisection, for example, is the practice of mutilating human bodies, without anesthesia, to study the operations of living systems.
Bat Bombs: World War II's Project X-Ray. Search through the annals of military history, and you will find some genuinely bizarre weaponry. And between the pigeon-guided missiles, flying tanks, whip swords, and vomit guns, it is clear that humans will try anything once if it means hurting their enemies. However, few weapons are quite so strange ...
(3) Bat Bombs, an American Experimental Weapon (January 1942): After the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked on US naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, United States entered the WWII. Among different measures against Japanese aggression was a 'Bat Bomb' plan proposed in January 1942 by Lytle Adams, a dentist in Pennsylvania and a ...
5. The "Purple" Encryption Machine. The German Enigma Machine may be the most famous encryption device of the Second World War, but it was by no means the only one. In 1937, the Japanese ...
German WW2 rifles While many countries had interesting experimental weapons programs during World War II, none has attracted as much attention as Germany's. Out of German experimental work came the first truly successful assault rifle, the StG44 and also the seeds of the roller locking system that would go on to be used in a wide variety of ...
Tarn: A Terrible British WW2 Experimental Pistol. The Tarn was a 9x19mm pistol developed by a Polish ex=pat designer named Z. de Lubicz Bakanowski. It was a simple blowback design, with a quite heavy slide and recoil spring. It was manufactured by the Swift Rifle Company, and ten examples were made as prototypes. They were tested formally by ...
Aug 11, 2020. By. Home / Japanese Wonder Weapons. Imagine it's 1945, but a different, counterfactual 1945. World War II rages on. The U.S. strategic bombing campaign is escalating in intensity as its attempts to destroy the enemy's means of production face increasingly determined resistance. Unexpectedly, American forces are encountering ...
The vortex gun designed to create cyclones to bring down planes was my favorite. And it was actually deployed. But all it did was create a bit of turbulence. Never used again. Not sure about ww2 experimental weapons but I know the soviets made what I like to call the UFO which was officially named the Object 279.
Category page. This category contains experimental weapons used during World War II. F. Fliegerfaust. M. MKb42 (H) MKb42 (W) R. RPD.
The Ukrainians have displayed a rare talent at creating new fuzes for old weapons. The most celebrated example is the Johnny or Jonik fuze fitted to Soviet-era PTM-3 anti-tank mines.The original ...