WEIRD WEAPONS : THE ALLIES (2/5)

Between 1939 and 1945, the world was locked in a nightmarish and ferocious military struggle. When the acrid smoke of the Second World War cleared, bizarre stories of extraordinary armaments began to emerge. In a world gone mad, nothing had seemed too strange to try. This programme uncovers far fetched weaponry dreamed up by inventive Allied and Axis scientists. From a battleship made of ice, to a fleet of pigeon-guided missiles, we comprehensively examine the weird weapons of WWII.

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[Qpollo]

@TheProjektcc

Thats a lie.

The biggest operation in historie is Stalins "Operation Baggration".

[silvanski]

0:50 hilarious... it would pose more danger to the user than to the enemy

[redreaper2020]

at 5:45 they probably could ahve added some sort of toe and camber to help

[drughello]

There is not a Soviet Weird Weapons documentary. Because if you go to stalin talking about incendiary bats you will be shot by stalin itself. Why the hell did we listen to that bat-asshole?

[slit555]

@euginrentonlifes

Yup...

[NileVS1]

my grand parents live next to the lake that they tested amphibius tanks in

[creativeprojects720]

the bat idea is crazy 

[euginrentonlifes]

Millions of people working how slaves for a create a fucking guns.

[pmcmanus420]

@whylie74 Interesting side story: Major-General Percy Hobart, the designer, couldn't get any support for his unconventional tanks. (Senior command considered him a "nutter.") So he had his men raid junkyards and find serviceable wrecks. The hulks they salvaged were rebuilt and converted into the Funnies. Thanks to this brilliant tanker, thousands of Canadian and British troops were saved as they hit the beaches of Normandy.

[pmcmanus420]

That bat briefing would have been cool: teams of bats in their flight gear, nervously chewing sticks of Beamont's gum, making dark jokes to relieve the tension. The intelligence officer steps up to the front, turns off the lights and says: "All right, men, listen up. Tonight's target... Tokyo!" Muffled squeaks of regret echo through the hall.

[pmcmanus420]

@Qpollo Poor writing. D-Day was the largest "amphibious" operation in history. Baggration, with more than 2 million troops, was the largest military operation. Interestingly, without the atomic bombings, the largest would have been Operation Olympic, the invasion of mainland Japan.

[clydehyde1980]

@qpollo

learn how to spell HISTORY