Japanese Death Ray and other WWII weird weapons

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Originally Posted by Redleg

A factual correction if you don't mind the weapons were in the arsenal and being trained on through the 1980's, and well into 1990. Sometime in 1990-91 timeframe was when they were removed from the active inventory. I am sure they are slowly being destroyed somewhere.

Now my favorite weapon actually comes from the British, (If I remember correctly that is) it was a rifle designed to shoot around corners without exposing the rifleman to enemy fire. A weird looking weapon.

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If I remember right I think that was the Germans with the MP-40 I think. They used it to shoot around corners and out of a German tank The Elephant I think it was called. I think thats what you are talking about.:2thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Csar

If I remember right I think that was the Germans with the MP-40 I think. They used it to shoot around corners and out of a German tank The Elephant I think it was called. I think thats what you are talking about.:2thumbsup:

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Yep it most likely was the German model that I remembered, but didn't the British have something similiar?

I do know that the British had a whole bunch of really neat clandstine operation equipment. That might be why I think it was of British design.

Once again, I have to mention my all-time favoriet -- the Russian dog mine.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v.../dog_mines.jpg

Didn't that not work because they were train with Russian tanks, so when in battle they ran to Russian tanks?

Talking of animals,the US in WWII tried to use bats as a weapon. They strapped naplam to hybernating bats, and dropped them from bombers. They hoped that during the fall they would wake up from hybernation and fly under the eves of Japanese buildings ...

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Originally Posted by discovery1

Didn't that not work because they were train with Russian tanks, so when in battle they ran to Russian tanks?

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Partially... There are enough German accounts of dog attacking them, but in general they managed to kill the dogs before they reached any tanks. And of course a starved dog is not stupid, it won't be running into a noisy battle just like that. So hat was also part of the failure.

Problems:
Dogs run towards Russian tanks/tractors if they are around.
Dogs son't like the noisy of a battle, they preferto either hide or run away.
Too easy to kill when they do run towards the German tanks. The bomb needed to be fairly strong so it limited the dog's speed and agility.

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Originally Posted by Redleg

I do know that the British had a whole bunch of really neat clandstine operation equipment. That might be why I think it was of British design.

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Obviously there was something about this that really appealed to the British character. You have to respect a people who can invent an exploding Buddha (its that sense of humour again...) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/486391.stm

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Originally Posted by Rythmic

Talking of animals,the US in WWII tried to use bats as a weapon. They strapped naplam to hybernating bats, and dropped them from bombers. They hoped that during the fall they would wake up from hybernation and fly under the eves of Japanese buildings ...

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The problem was that during a field test the wind shifted so all bats ended up flying into the testbase's HQ. Similarly, dolphin experiments had to be abandoned because the dolphin saboteurs prefered to place charges under allied ships instead of enemy ones. Still, I only have these stories from hearsay, so they might be wrong.

It didn't work, because during testing the bats didn't wake up from hybernation, so they ended up giving up the idea.
Instead they did tests into the bats use of sound, and they discovered sonar :idea2:

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Originally Posted by Watchman

I know the US also spent a lot on energy on psychic research (clairvoyants to locate Soviet subs and so on) and at least at one point on African witch doctors (although that may have had more to do with their social importance in the context of yet another ugly third-world war by proxy), and the Soviets had no shortage of similar kooky projects.

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I've heard (rumors ?) the US still has a few projects running involving supernatural research. :help:

hmm I've heard similar stuff doc, so are they or not ???

I think they've always been fascinated with controlling the weather or earthquakes. But we probably won't know until this information is released in a possibly long time.