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

[Neanderthaland]

I would love to travel back in time as a German and be a part of the crew that fires the Paris Gun.

I might die in the war when the Entente advance but it’s still cool.

I'm pretty sure you would die on account of not speaking German.

[Neanderthaland]

I am a bit sad that

was never created.

[The Underestimated Ones]

The P.1500 monster, the v3, and the kugelpanzer
I just like the size of them, and i like the kugelpanzers shape

[The National Salvation Front for Russia]

[Western Vale Confederacy]

Y’all heard of this Aztec weapon called a "macuahuitl", also known as "a fucking stick with obsidian shards stuck to ‘em"?

[Novus America]

I am a bit sad that

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was never created.

Actually the Germans built one.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.tanks-en ... anzer/amp/

[Free-anarchy]

Wars have produced some of the most influential weapons of all time: the Maxim machine gun, the Me 262 jet fighter and the Turtle submersible among others. But others, some that never even left the blueprint stage, were too outlandish, poorly designed or just plain dumb. One of my personal favorites is the P.1000 Landkreuzer of WW2 fame:

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The concept sounds great right? A 1000 tonne tank with twin 280mm guns, impervious to any damage and protected by host of AA guns that can destroy anything in its way. Let's ignore that it couldn't cross bridges, would crush roads, is slower than a snail, requires extraordinary amounts of materials, fuel, manpower and ammo and most importantly a big fat target for Allied aircraft.

What are your favorites, denizens of NSG?

I agree that even wars makes different and unthoughs ideas

[The Blaatschapen]

My favourite war weapon, and I use weapon very loosely here, is a Dutch defense mechanism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Wat ... _Waterline

It's literally drowning a piece of land, in case of invasion.

Scorched Earth tactic, the water variant.

[Infected Mushroom]

I would love to travel back in time as a German and be a part of the crew that fires the Paris Gun.

I might die in the war when the Entente advance but it’s still cool.

I'm pretty sure you would die on account of not speaking German.

... good point

Now if only it was the Berlin Gun

My French might pass

[Washington Resistance Army]

I am a bit sad that

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was never created.

Actually the Germans built one.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.tanks-en ... anzer/amp/

God I love this little fucking thing so much

We know next to nothing about it but it's just wonderful.

[Sicaris]

Big Bertha artillery. It was ridiculously resource consuming to operate and it was a nightmare to assemble and disassemble because of its sheer size.

The 420mm Krupp guns performed amazingly well though, and did their job efficiently.

[Sicaris]

Y’all heard of this Aztec weapon called a "macuahuitl", also known as "a fucking stick with obsidian shards stuck to ‘em"?

Yeah. Obsidian hurts to be hit with, dude.

Shit was scary.

[Novus America]

Actually the Germans built one.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.tanks-en ... anzer/amp/

God I love this little fucking thing so much

We know next to nothing about it but it's just wonderful.

The Russians need to be a little less paranoid. I doubt any information regarding a 75+ year old tank can be of any danger to release.

I wish they would stop trying to hide stuff about history.

But it is a funny thing. Would definitely be interesting to learn more about it.

[Western Vale Confederacy]

Y’all heard of this Aztec weapon called a "macuahuitl", also known as "a fucking stick with obsidian shards stuck to ‘em"?

Yeah. Obsidian hurts to be hit with, dude.

Shit was scary.

Good fucking luck dealing with an Aztec warrior if you didn’t have mail armour, boyo.

[Ifreann]

A dragon is clearly the best weapon of war. It's an indestructible, flying tank that can set fire to an entire city in minutes.

That's very true. Chrissake, why haven't we started manufacturing them yet?

Far too expensive.

Being a WW1 kinda guy, the Tankgewehr M1918 is one of my favourite weird guns. It was almost 40 pounds and was taller than most men at the time!

The T-Gewehr wasn't that weird. The Germans were planning to make an anti-air/anti-armour machine gun when some clever fellow pointed out "We're going to need to make a really simple rifle to test this new ammunition, why don't we make a bunch of them and get them in the trenches now?"

And that man was Adolf Hitler.


Haha, no, not really.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

God I love this little fucking thing so much

We know next to nothing about it but it's just wonderful.

The Russians need to be a little less paranoid. I doubt any information regarding a 75+ year old tank can be of any danger to release.

I wish they would stop trying to hide stuff about history.

But it is a funny thing. Would definitely be interesting to learn more about it.

Hitler actually used one to escape Berlin. It was invulnerable. Hitler rolled up to Stalin's private plane in Moscow and flew it to Argentina. The Russian shame was too much and they hid it from the world.

[Sicaris]

The Russians need to be a little less paranoid. I doubt any information regarding a 75+ year old tank can be of any danger to release.

I wish they would stop trying to hide stuff about history.

But it is a funny thing. Would definitely be interesting to learn more about it.

Hitler actually used one to escape Berlin. It was invulnerable. Hitler rolled up to Stalin's private plane in Moscow and flew it to Argentina. The Russian shame was too much and they hid it from the world.

The superior German rounded armor allowed it to absorb even the mighty shells of the KV-2 and SU-series SPGs and thus Hitler never actually died.

[Unstoppable Empire of Doom]

I'd also like to add in the Russian Novgorod monitor which is without doubt the ugliest ship ever made, and the Mark 14 torpedo. There isnt anything silly or outlandish in its design, but the fact that it was the primary torpedo for the USN in the beginning of WWII, and it had a success rate on average of about 30%, is just ridiculous.

Eh that was about average for all mass produced torpedos involved in the war. They were all nearly useless and throughout the war upgraded until in 44/45 they had between a 50% and 70% success rate. It was common practice for sub commanders on all sides to launch a minimum of two per target. According to various memoirs I have read the notorious clank of scoring a hit but no detination drove them to be furious.

[Uxupox]

Y’all heard of this Aztec weapon called a "macuahuitl", also known as "a fucking stick with obsidian shards stuck to ‘em"?

I wouldn’t call it dumb or stupid as they did their job quite splendidly well. The main focus/objective in the Aztec flowers wars was not complete destruction of another native society but its utter subjugation in order to supply themselves with either a steady steam of slaves or sacrifices. Both of which need to be alive to supply the Aztec state.

[Crookfur]

Y’all heard of this Aztec weapon called a "macuahuitl", also known as "a fucking stick with obsidian shards stuck to ‘em"?

I wouldn’t call it dumb or stupid as they did their job quite splendidly well. The main focus/objective in the Aztec flowers wars was not complete destruction of another native society but its utter subjugation in order to supply themselves with either a steady steam of slaves or sacrifices. Both of which need to be alive to supply the Aztec state.

Sticks with sharp cutty stuff stuck to them are a fairly common solution to the lack of metal working and or no easy access to suitable metal desposites issues.

[Pax Nerdvana]

I know Project Orion wasn't a military project, but it sure was dumb, and it involved nukes. It counts, right?

[Frostnia]

Y’all heard of this Aztec weapon called a "macuahuitl", also known as "a fucking stick with obsidian shards stuck to ‘em"?

Yeah. Obsidian hurts to be hit with, dude.

Shit was scary.

I'm pretty sure if you got a good swing it you could decapitate a horse with that thing

[Cerinda]

A fantastic looking rifle which was ahead of it's time.

[Krasny-Volny]

Probably the 210mm Iraqi Al-Fao howitzer, arguably the most effective and formidable self-propelled gun ever built.

It was very, very sophisticated for its time. If Jane's is to believed, this thing was more advanced than any piece of field artillery the US or Soviet Union had in service. Naturally the Iraqis couldn't have come up with this themselves, they hired one of the world's premier artillery scientists and a crew of foreign technicians to carry out all the design work. The technology for the gun was also stolen from several countries.

The Al-Fao never went into production, probably because of its astronomical projected production costs.

There was only one prototype, but after being exhibited at a few arms shows it was never seen again. A smaller version of the same SPG called the Al-Majnoon (a prototype which went on display with the Al-Fao and was likewise never seen again) was found in an underground bunker in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, where it had been parked and then forgotten. The US forces which discovered it didn't say what they had in mind, but I'm guessing it was scrapped.

The Al-Fao remains missing, and what happened to the single prototype is a mystery for the ages.

[Ifreann]

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A fantastic looking rifle which was ahead of it's time.

Not weird enough, needs more Pedersen device.