What are your favorite dumb/weird war weapons and why?

[Sicaris]

M-29 Davy Crockett

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Because nothing says "Cold" War like a portable piece of nuclear artillery.

Reminds me of the fatman launcher from fallout

Yes. The Fat Man is heavily based off of the M-29.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

A WW2 guided missile whose operating system consisted of three pigeons conditioned to pick at pictures of ships. The pigeons were placed in front of a window and picked at the actual ships in their vision, their head movements recorded by a mechanism.

The project was ended because an officer looked at it, had a sudden moment of realisation, and shut it all down.

[The Galactic Liberal Democracy]

Yes. The Fat Man is heavily based off of the M-29.

Fat man was during WW2 but the M29 was the Cold War.

[Sicaris]

The urumi

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It's an accident waiting to happen.

No no no, the Urumi is actually extremely deadly.

The warriors trained to use it train with the thing their entire life.

It’s a giant metal sword-flail and is extremely dangerous and was rather terrifying to face in combat.

[Sicaris]

Yes. The Fat Man is heavily based off of the M-29.

Fat man was during WW2 but the M29 was the Cold War.

Did you even read what the post was in response to?

I’m not talking about the atomic bomb dropped on Japan, I know my WW2 stuff.

I’m talking about the launcher from Fallout.

[Novus America]

The urumi

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It's an accident waiting to happen.

No no no, the Urumi is actually extremely deadly.

The warriors trained to use it train with the thing their entire life.

It’s a giant metal sword-flail and is extremely dangerous and was rather terrifying to face in combat.

A single blade/flail urumi actually could work in the hands of a higly skilled, expert user.
Dual wielding those multi blade ones would just get yourself sliced to pieces though.

It could work in the hands of a skilled enough expert. But was also highly dangerous to the user so only the best trained could actually use it without maiming themselves.

[Sicaris]

No no no, the Urumi is actually extremely deadly.

The warriors trained to use it train with the thing their entire life.

It’s a giant metal sword-flail and is extremely dangerous and was rather terrifying to face in combat.

A single blade/flail urumi actually could work in the hands of a higly skilled, expert user.
Dual wielding those multi blade ones would just get yourself sliced to pieces though.

It could work in the hands of a skilled enough expert. But was also highly dangerous to the user so only the best trained could actually use it without maiming themselves.

Exactly. Which is why the warriors that use them train with the Urumi for their entire life.

[Xmara]

Who me, aka the French stink bomb

[The Galactic Liberal Democracy]

Who me, aka the French stink bomb

Not that one. It killed more people than the Liberator and was a brutal chemical weapon. Believe me, I’ve seen it in action. IIRC, it caused mild symptoms among people who for some reason decided to recreate its effects but they did say it smelled bad.

[Luziyca]

Project Babylon was pretty cool: it may have never been completed, but it is amusing how Saddam tried to make a supergun.

[Sicaris]

Project Babylon was pretty cool: it may have never been completed, but it is amusing how Saddam tried to make a supergun.

It wasn’t really dumb nor stupid. It would have allowed bombardment or enemy positions from very far away.

Expensive yes, but not dumb.

Nazis did a similar thing (which Babylon was based off of);

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon

[Rio Cana]

Going back to the early 20th. The Tachanka which was invented in the Russian civil war was strange but highly effective.

Photo - http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0Vv-UOr2zpg/V ... nka-02.jpg

The Russians tossed out the Tachanka years later. However, in modern times with the world wide sales of Toyota pickup trucks, fighting groups did the following - https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/imag ... AdvRQUl_xk

Seeing the effectiveness of the modern Tachanka especially in places with little roads the Russians officially have brought it back. This is the modern version - https://southfront.org/wp-content/uploa ... 8/1-55.jpg

[Novus America]

Project Babylon was pretty cool: it may have never been completed, but it is amusing how Saddam tried to make a supergun.

It wasn’t really dumb nor stupid. It would have allowed bombardment or enemy positions from very far away.

Expensive yes, but not dumb.

Nazis did a similar thing (which Babylon was based off of);

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon

The V-3 was a higly inefficient use of resources. The shell was too small, and the weapon too inaccurate (and could not be retargeted without disassembling it and rebuilding it).

It was not going to do any real good.

[The New California Republic]

It wasn’t really dumb nor stupid. It would have allowed bombardment or enemy positions from very far away.

Expensive yes, but not dumb.

Nazis did a similar thing (which Babylon was based off of);

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon

The V-3 was a higly inefficient use of resources. The shell was too small, and the weapon too inaccurate (and could not be retargeted without disassembling it and rebuilding it).

It was not going to do any real good.

It also got bombed to shit by the allies. Babylon would have been bombed to shit too during the Gulf War. Immobile weapons are vulnerable, as shown by the static Iraqi air defenses getting decimated during aforementioned war, and hence why countries are investing so heavily in mobile air defences. Babylon would have been destroyed by a single LGB.

[Karevka]

Have any of you heard of the Type 94 Nambu?

This piece of shit was reportedly so bad, an urban legend sprung up that said Japanese soldiers only used the pistol to commit suicide.

[The Black Party]

tankettes. They are so weird and cool. They should have been issued to police forces, lmao

[Pax Nerdvana]

Have any of you heard of the Type 94 Nambu?

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This piece of shit was reportedly so bad, an urban legend sprung up that said Japanese soldiers only used the pistol to commit suicide.

Supposedly, the safety on it is so weak that it could fire if you dropped it.

[Risottia]

Flying submarines.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_submarine

Because this is exactly the typical over-complicated, over-engineered, noobish and expensive thing you'd expect from Nazi Germany... And instead it was attempted by the usually more no-nonsense Soviets and British.

[Bezkoshtovnya]

Have any of you heard of the Type 94 Nambu?

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This piece of shit was reportedly so bad, an urban legend sprung up that said Japanese soldiers only used the pistol to commit suicide.

Oh yeah. That shit is infamously ineffective. Apparently it would go off in holsters all the time if it was jostled too much.

[Crookfur]

Flying submarines.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_submarine

Because this is exactly the typical over-complicated, over-engineered, noobish and expensive thing you'd expect from Nazi Germany... And instead it was attempted by the usually more no-nonsense Soviets and British.

Actually not that surprising for the countries and the times they looked at it, with the UK being in the 20s, just as all metal, pressurised aircraft were starting to become concepts. Once you arrive at the idea of a pressurised metal aircraft they start to sound not a million miles away from submarines so its more a case of, "well could it go underwater too". The Russians on the other hand seem to have taking the same daftness pills that they took in great quantities in the 20s and 30s where there was a lot of "innovative thinking" going on but very little thought as anything resembling practicality and even less experience in actually building stuff. This of course fitted the soviet mold where everything was to be new and all you needed to get your ideas taken half seriously was a friend with reasonable standing in the party.

[Wunderstrafanstalt]

Magic. Like, literal magic with wizards and artefacts and genies. It looks like everyone, including once the most important person in my country believe it, and there was a military operation in 1966 against "Grandpa Suro" and his base in Mount Kendheng as he was accused of supporting the communists by making them bullet-resistant, through magic. I mean it's understandable - bullet-resistant commies = disaster.

Luckily, the government has passed a legislation prohibiting the practice of black magic, but only if they are intended to harm others. Controlling the weather or preventing terrorism in public events is 100% legal and some government institution regularly use them. The Intelligence Agency was (in)famous for seriously planning the murder of human rights activist Munir S. Thalib through black magic before settling on a more rational method, while some people have been trying to attack George Bush through voodoo.

[USS Monitor]

I bet you can guess what my favorite weird weapon is. I helpfully put it on my flag and named my nation after it to make it more obvious.

[West Leas Oros 2]

Magic. Like, literal magic with wizards and artefacts and genies. It looks like everyone, including once the most important person in my country believe it, and there was a military operation in 1966 against "Grandpa Suro" and his base in Mount Kendheng as he was accused of supporting the communists by making them bullet-resistant, through magic. I mean it's understandable - bullet-resistant commies = disaster.

Luckily, the government has passed a legislation prohibiting the practice of black magic, but only if they are intended to harm others. Controlling the weather or preventing terrorism in public events is 100% legal and some government institution regularly use them. The Intelligence Agency was (in)famous for seriously planning the murder of human rights activist Munir S. Thalib through black magic before settling on a more rational method, while some people have been trying to attack George Bush through voodoo.

This is amazing. Never change, Indonesia.

[Nolo gap]

anything that has a blast radius larger then its range, is mildly amusing for anyone who doesn't have to wield it.

[Castelia]

I bet you can guess what my favorite weird weapon is. I helpfully put it on my flag and named my nation after it to make it more obvious.

Really? I always thought the Monitor was cool, though.