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Not sure about Discovery Channel dude, it was shown here on a program called 'Time Team'. Which is basically Tony Robinson and a guy whose epic beard makes the show, going around the UK and Europe digging out old walls,buildings and frequently WW1 Trench and recreating, either IRL or digitally what they find
Its quite good....

No mention of the pigeon guided bomb?

Ratbarf wrote:Explosive sawblades?

Ouze wrote:That explode into bees.

You're both wrong.
A cannon that shoots missiles that explode into 9001 chainsaws. That are also missiles.
Which explode into sharks.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

Which explode into sharks.

with lasers

 Desubot wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

Which explode into sharks.

with frickin laserbeams on Thier heads

Fixed that for you!

 sarpedons-right-hand wrote:
Not a wierd weapon, but absolutely terrifying none the less...


A giant French(?) FlameThrower from WW1..... And the outcome of this?



Imagine riding your Horse through No Mans Land and seeing that leaping towards you.....

We had Shermans with giant Flamethrowers in WW2. Even more frightening.

Especially against tanks, the last thing you, as a tanker, wanted to encounter was a flamethrower. Unless you were driving a tank equipped with a flamethrower, in which case the worse thing was getting your tank popped.

 Commander Cain wrote:

 reds8n wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO3IsRrjtXw&feature=youtu.be

Wonderful! A crazy German with a bazooka that shoots saw blades. What could be better?

"That's what a burning witch is supposed to look like!!!" I nearly busted a gut laughing lol.

 Grey Templar wrote:
We had Shermans with giant Flamethrowers in WW2. Even more frightening.

Especially against tanks, the last thing you, as a tanker, wanted to encounter was a flamethrower. Unless you were driving a tank equipped with a flamethrower, in which case the worse thing was getting your tank popped.

Everyone had flame tanks. The Germans modified their MkII and MkIII tanks, but found their performance mediocre and converted the surviving models to assault guns. The Russians built a variant based on the T34. The British produced a variant of their Churchill called the Crocodile, and this was probably the best of all the options (despite looking the dodgiest, as it towed the fuel trailer). Even the Italians and Japanese had some flame tanks.

Their performance was pretty good in the first half of the war, but dropped off considerably as infantry AT weapons came to outrange the flamethrowers. It's one thing to drive your tank across the open field and brave AT guns on the way, it's quite another to have to get within 80 metres befor you can fire, because you're then doomed to face shots from every son of a bitch that can get his hands on a panzerfaust, because that guy knows unless he takes you out he's going to burn to death.

The Croc was safer than the others because of the trailer, if the fuel got hit and went up in flames it didn't mean the entire tank was gone.

 Grey Templar wrote:
The Croc was safer than the others because of the trailer, if the fuel got hit and went up in flames it didn't mean the entire tank was gone.

That was part of it. It also benefitted from being a more elaborate, larger flamethrower with a greater range. Having to move within 120m of a bunker compared to the 80m of other flamethrowers was a big deal.

A wonder there's still any animals left on the european sub-continent....

I can hardly believe someone took the gay bomb seriously... in the 90s...

I seem to recall the child bombs of Japan that were never put into use...

 gunslingerpro wrote:
I seem to recall the child bombs of Japan that were never put into use...

Don't give the terrorists any ideas. O'wait...

 azazel the cat wrote:
I dunno if it really counts as a weapon or not, but go read up on the Ghost Army

Wait, They where carrying the tanks into Battle?
God, Gas prices must have been outrageus.

 gunslingerpro wrote:
I seem to recall the child bombs of Japan that were never put into use...

It was an idea for defending the home islands from the invasion of Japan which never happened. My grandpa's friend was trained to be child bomber. He said they taught him to dig holes, called octopus holes, hide in them, then jump out and destroy a tank with a bomb. He asked them "what if the Americans kill me?" he was given a beating for asking "stupid questions."

Even worse than that, he told me that they were trained to punch, so they could fight American soldiers unarmed. He was told every morning to wake up and punch the air to hone his soldier-punching skills. He was in Hiroshima going to the train station when the atomic bomb went off and it knocked him on his butt. He told me he escaped the burning city by fleeing against the wind, just like he was taught by his instructors. The child bomber thing is just an example of child soldiers, they were more than just bombers, but they were being trained to do some real self-destructive things.

 CuddlySquig wrote:

 gunslingerpro wrote:
I seem to recall the child bombs of Japan that were never put into use...

It was an idea for defending the home islands from the invasion of Japan which never happened. My grandpa's friend was trained to be child bomber. He said they taught him to dig holes, called octopus holes, hide in them, then jump out and destroy a tank with a bomb. He asked them "what if the Americans kill me?" he was given a beating for asking "stupid questions."

Even worse than that, he told me that they were trained to punch, so they could fight American soldiers unarmed. He was told every morning to wake up and punch the air to hone his soldier-punching skills. He was in Hiroshima going to the train station when the atomic bomb went off and it knocked him on his butt. He told me he escaped the burning city by fleeing against the wind, just like he was taught by his instructors. The child bomber thing is just an example of child soldiers, they were more than just bombers, but they were being trained to do some real self-destructive things.

Thanks for the insight. Truly a horrific time.

Commander Cain wrote:

 reds8n wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO3IsRrjtXw&feature=youtu.be

Wonderful! A crazy German with a bazooka that shoots saw blades. What could be better?

Ratbarf wrote:Explosive sawblades?

Ouze wrote:That explode into bees.

This is starting to sound a lot like one of the weapons from Ratchet & Clank.

So are you saying that a genetically engineered ferret is not one of the weirdest weapons ever?

 Ratbarf wrote:
So are you saying that a genetically engineered ferret is not one of the weirdest weapons ever?

I'd put it as slightly more normal than a genetically engineered Gopher or Prairie Dog.

 Goliath wrote:

Commander Cain wrote:

 reds8n wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO3IsRrjtXw&feature=youtu.be

Wonderful! A crazy German with a bazooka that shoots saw blades. What could be better?

Ratbarf wrote:Explosive sawblades?

Ouze wrote:That explode into bees.

This is starting to sound a lot like one of the weapons from Ratchet & Clank.

We do kinda need a weapon that turns our enemies into Sheep.
We would Solve World Hunger and Terrorism at the same time.

just make sure you can run really fast.

Are you sure the "vomit Ray" isn't the ADS, or the LRAD?

 Ninjacommando wrote:


just make sure you can run really fast.

Are you sure the "vomit Ray" isn't the ADS, or the LRAD?

If i recall the vomit ray was basically a strobe flashlight that flashed different colors really quickly to incapacitate people but one of the side effects was that it made people nauseous and then vomit.

what about the Chicken powered Nukes that the British developed

Basically during the cold war they wanted to have nuclear landmines to use against the russians, but they would freeze in the ground during the german winter.

The solution, build a chicken into it so it heats up the inside just enough for it to work

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peacock

In WW1 some Brit with a biplane, dropped cigarettes and leaflets over a a city that he was laying siege too. He did this often so much so that the defenders would not fire at him any more, the day before he made a big push he flew over and dropped opiate laced cigarettes. When his army attacked they met very little resistance.

Not a strange weapon, but a strange tactic indeed.

 Ratbarf wrote:
So are you saying that a genetically engineered ferret is not one of the weirdest weapons ever?

The Soviets were experimenting with genetically engineered gorillas as super soldiers.

The Soviet researchers involved knew the idea was completely barking mad (their lab was highly respected, and made many vital breakthroughs in genetic research)... but you tell Stalin his idea for gorilla soldiers was stupid.

IIRC it wasn't as much genetic engineering as it was simply crossing humans and gorillas. Impregnating a human woman with gorilla sperm.

 Grey Templar wrote:
IIRC it wasn't as much genetic engineering as it was simply crossing humans and gorillas. Impregnating a human woman with gorilla sperm.

That's right, it's coming back to me now. Cheers for the correction.

Anyhow, 'yes Comrade Stalin. Great idea Comrade Stalin. We'll get right on to that human gorilla hybrid Comrade Stalin. Oh, and when we succeed we get an extra serving of potato ration, you're too kind Comrade Stalin."

 Grey Templar wrote:
IIRC it wasn't as much genetic engineering as it was simply crossing humans and gorillas. Impregnating a human woman with gorilla sperm.

Thats nothing. Texas highschool football teams did that back in the 20's.

Anti-tank dogs
Man’s best friend was sent into battle in the second world war when, in an effort to combat the enemy’s armoured capability, Soviet forces employed what would later become known as bomb dogs. These specially trained hounds were taught to find food under armoured vehicles. They were then starved before being released on the battlefield with explosives strapped to them. Amazingly it worked and after scores of units were destroyed, an order was sent out to German troops to shoot all mutts on sight.

Only issue with the Anti Tank Dogs was that since the Russians trained them on Russian tanks 9 outa 10 times the dogs would just blow up a Russian tank, not very effective to say the least....... for the Russians that is

 Frazzled wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:
IIRC it wasn't as much genetic engineering as it was simply crossing humans and gorillas. Impregnating a human woman with gorilla sperm.

Thats nothing. Texas highschool football teams did that back in the 20's.

You say that like it isn't happening anymore