British Secret Wartime Follies

[BigJ782011]

These inventions look like contraction made by ACME that you will see in a cartoon episode of Road Runner and Wile E Coyote.

[AmINotAllowedOrSomet]

The Panjandrum looks like something I used to make in Garry's Mod.

[whitedragon1204]

XD

[Kaninjadog]

My god it's like something out of Monty python. XD

[metallikato]

I watched this video a couple of years ago... And then I was introduced to Hetalia. Now that I'm looking at this video again, it feels a thousand times more amusing because I can imagine the Britain character trying to attack Germany with these experiments!

[muiroford1]

No wonder we lost the war and Germany won with the European Union.

[mancity1000]

This might have miserably failed, but the Germans weakness was they always thought in straight lines during wartime - in invention and tactics. The British didn't. Look at the St Nazaire Raid, bouncing bomb, invention of the tank, invention of radar, HMS Argus, Operation Mincemeat, Enigma Machine etc. Honestly, the British armed forces aren't what they were now - but you can at least the equivalent of another half which is provided by the ingenuity of British thinking during wartime.

[BOBSAGATification]

2:28

That poor,poor dog.

[Skyswinger]

Salutes. Its thinking outside the box like this that partly makes the British who they are.

[Dannywills666]

one man Beach streachers look amazing for a drunken night out

[S0c0J0e]

lol at some of these, wtf were they thinking with that motorcycle ramp over water?

[6013welder]

love the 2 stroke motorcycle sound at (0:59)

[sapperhutch]

2:40 lol falling falling falling, SMACK, WHOOOSH

[Yansu1020]

　Panjandrum　...=三Ｏ　Σ(ﾟωﾟ｀ﾉ)ﾉ

[paddytheduck]

i think i would be scery if the panjandrum came going up the beach i woul run

[momijisaba1989]

Britania's eccentric weapons rule the world

[GrimlyKK]

Loved the Hagile - sheer lunacy, ranking only with the mad motorcyle landing strip. LOL!

[freebeerfordworkers]

Not that crazy really because you have to test an idea to see if it works. Edison said his best inventions were 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

Dropping supplies using retro rockets is actually standard for Russian paratroops but they combine them with parachutes.

My favourite wartime plot was that of the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS). They wanted to drop a ton of pornography on Hitlers HQ because they thought it would cause him to loose his reason.

[DeerShit01]

lol, panjandrum rules!! :D

[weldonwin]

I love that one, if only for imagining the faces of the German gunners who saw this thing roling towards them and the utter WTF moments it would cause

[andrielisilien]

wait... so what did America come up with? I wanna see!

[andrielisilien]

I couldn't stop laughing :D

[UberObscura]

Haha, the retro rockets at 2:40.

[heliosium]

I wonder how they win the war- with the aid of the Colonies?

[gfirefrosting]

very cool inside look at some engineering blunders by the british during wwII. it would be interesting to see experiments carried out by other countries.

[monkeyrun]

lol this is a joke right?

[g00dsir555]

lol at motorcycle ramp