9 Absolutely Insane Weapons of War! Crazy!

Let me just say that this is very weird and interesting and while it's interesting it's also kind of sick if these types of weapons are really being used or have been used. Some of them I doubt have ever been used but still. Some of the ideas are wicked.

Ok here we go..... I hope I'm doing this right


Gay bombs:
Strong aphrodisiacs to cause "homosexual behavior"
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"Gay bomb" is an informal name for a theoretical non-lethal chemical weapon, which a United States Air Force research laboratory speculated about producing. In 1994 the Wright Laboratory in Ohio produced a three-page proposal of a variety of possible nonlethal chemical weapons, which was later obtained—complete with marginal jottings and typos—by the Sunshine Project through a Freedom of Information Act request. In one sentence of the document it was suggested that a strong aphrodisiac could be dropped on enemy troops, ideally one which would also cause "homosexual behavior". The aphrodisiac weapon was described as "distasteful but completely non-lethal". In its "New Discoveries Needed" section, the document implicitly acknowledges that no such chemicals are actually known.

Bat bombs:
Incendiary bombs attached to bats
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Bat bombs were tiny incendiary bombs attached to bats, that were developed by the United States during World War II with the hope of attacking mainland Japan. Four biological factors gave promise to this plan. First, bats occur in large numbers (four caves in Texas are each occupied by several million bats). Second, bats can carry more than their own weight in flight (females carry their young — sometimes twins). Third, bats hibernate, and while dormant they do not require food or complicated maintenance. Fourth, bats fly in darkness, then find secretive places (such as flammable buildings) to hide during daylight.

Who, Me?:
A bad odor weapon to humiliate the enemy
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Who Me? was a top secret sulfurous stench weapon developed by the American Office of Strategic Services during World War II to be used by the French Resistance against German officers. Who Me? smelled strongly of fecal matter, and was issued in pocket atomizers intended to be unobtrusively sprayed on a German officer, humiliating him and, by extension, demoralizing the occupying German forces.

Anti-tank dogs:
Hungry dogs with explosives
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Anti-tank dogs, also known as dog bombs or dog mines, were hungry dogs with explosives harnessed to their backs and trained to seek food under tanks and armoured vehicles. By doing so, a detonator (usually a small wooden lever) would go off, triggering the explosives and damaging or destroying the military vehicle. The dogs were employed by the Soviet Union during World War II for use against German tanks. The dogs were kept without food for a few days, then trained to find food under a tank. The dogs quickly learned that once released from their pens, food could be found under tracked vehicles. Once trained, the dogs were fitted with an explosive charge and set loose into a field of oncoming German tanks and other tracked vehicles. When the dog went underneath the tank—where there was less armour—the charge would detonate and damage the enemy vehicle. According to Soviet sources, the anti-tank dogs were successful at disabling a reported three hundred German tanks. They were enough of a problem to the Nazi advance that the Germans were compelled to take measures against them. An armoured vehicle's top-mounted machine gun proved ineffective due to the relatively small size of the dogs and the fact that they were low to the ground, fast, and hard to spot. Orders were dispatched that commanded every German soldier to shoot any dogs on sight. Eventually the Germans began using tank-mounted flame-throwers to ward off the dogs. They were much more successful at dissuading the attacks, but some dogs would not stop.

Fire balloons:
Incendiary hydrogen balloons
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Fire balloons or balloon bombs where hydrogen balloons with a load varying from a 12 kg (26 lb) incendiary to one 15 kg (33 lb) antipersonnel bomb and four 5 kg (11 lb) incendiaries attached. They were launched by Japan during World War II, designed to wreak havoc on Canadian and American cities, forests, and farmlands. Launch sites were located on the east coast of the main Japanese island of Honshu. From the late 1944 until early 1945, the Japanese launched over 9,000 of these fire balloons, of which 300 were found or observed in the U.S. Some guesswork gives the total number that made the trip at about 1,000. Despite the high hopes of their designers, the balloons were relatively ineffective as weapons, causing only six deaths and a small amount of damage, and they survive in memory mostly as an ingenious and dangerous curiosity. The bombs caused little damage, but their potential for destruction and fires was large. The bombs also had a potential psychological effect on the American people. The U.S. strategy was not to let Japan know of the balloon bombs' effectiveness. Cooperating with the desires of the government, the press did not publish any balloon bomb incidents. As a result, the Japanese only learned of one bomb reaching Wyoming, landing and failing to explode, so they stopped the launches after less than six months.

Exploding rats:
Rat carcasses filled with plastic explosives
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Exploding rats were a weapon developed by the British army in World War II for use against Germany. Rat carcasses were filled with plastic explosives, with the idea that when the rats were shovelled along with coal into boilers, they would explode, causing significant damage. However, the first shipment of carcasses was intercepted by the Germans, and the plan was dropped. The Germans exhibited the rats at top military schools, and conducted searches for further exploding rats.

Killer Dolphins:
To seek and destroy submarines using kamikaze methods
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The U.S. Navy openly trains dolphins and sea lions under the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program, which is based in San Diego, California. Military dolphins were used by the U.S. Navy during the First and Second Gulf War. About 75 dolphins are in the Navy's marine mammal program.

Project Pigeon:
A pigeon-guided missile
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The control system involved a lens at the front of the missile projecting an image of the target to a screen inside, while a pigeon trained (by operant conditioning) to recognize the target pecked at it. As long as the pecks remained in the center of the screen, the missile would fly straight, but pecks off-center would cause the screen to tilt, which would then, via a connection to the missile's flight controls, cause the missile to change course. Three pigeons were to control the bomb's direction by majority rule.

Cat Bombs:
To sink German ships
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During World War I, cats were used in the trenches as an attempt to keep the rat population down and some cats were used as poison gas “detectors”.

Ok ATS I'm sorry it is so long but trust me.. I'm pretty sure you have something to say about these weapons so let's hear it.

Thanks

Well i'm a history major so i've known about these but it's a nice bundle you've put together. Having studied this i'm sure you know you could have added a ton more to your list

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Nice to meet you mr. History lol, thanks. I could have added about 100 more items to this but for the simple fact that some people get mad at extremely long post I figured I'd start it like this and add throughout the thread As it goes on. Feel free to add whatever you want. The more the marrier

Awesome stuff, it's kindof interesting how they incorporate animals into warfare, even when they're used as unknowing suicide bombers.

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Thanks, it is wild how people come up with some of this stuff and how to use animals as suicide bombers but hey... It's war. I'm not to fond of using animals like cats and dogs or even birds but I'm not in charge.

the exploding dogs were not used for long. they were trained to look for food under tanks but to a dog a tank is a tank and when they were released to dig under enemy tanks they would turn around and start digging under there own tanks for food, blowing them up instead.

This is another weapon I found but I don't have any pictures for it. As you can imagine it's really big, or was bug for that time period, and still might even be way to big for a weapon of today lol

The V3 Super Gun was known as the vengeance weapon and was specifically developed to hit London. The V3 Cannon was capable of firing a 140kg (308lb) shell to a range of 165km (100 miles). In order to achieve this kind of range, the 140 meter (460ft) barrel had many side channels attached to it. Each side channel had propelling charges that were timed to fire and help increase the velocity of the shell to 1500 meters per second. Mr. Hitler was so impressed that he decided to order 25 and place them in Mimoyecques, France. The Germans actually ended up abandoning the guns due to heavy bombing by the Allied forces. Two smaller versions were used against Luxemburg but were later captured by American forces.

Good stuff, what were other unusual tools of war ?

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That is very interesting. Thanks for the contribution! Star for you

This one is from the Vietnam war, it is pretty wicked if you actually got assaulted by one of these. They have been in movies and it was also featured on deadliest warrior. Most of you have seen them.

The Punji stick or Punji stake is a type of booby trapped stake. It is a simple spike, made out of wood or bamboo, generally placed upright in the ground. Punji sticks are usually deployed in substantial numbers.[1] Punji sticks would be placed in areas likely to be passed through by enemy troops. The presence of punji sticks may be camouflaged by natural undergrowth, crops, grass, brush or similar materials. They were often incorporated into various types of traps; for example, a camouflaged pit into which a man might fall (it would then be a trou de loup).

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I'm not sure that the Gay Bombs would work as expected.

As an outsider, I have observed that most armed forces take in pubescent kids, bunk them together, train them to a physical peak and simultaneously tell them how homosexuality is wrong.

This is sure to build up psychological frustration to the levels that, when told to murder another human being, they have such self loathing that they can carry out such an abhorrent thing.

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I don't think gay bombs would be used today but with our military you never know man, besides the gay bombs were an idea back in world war one and two!

Still a stupid idea though if you ask me.

nice thred i learn a lot from it

i do have phsycological* bluff of sorts :in dessert storm us military deployed a vast fleet of hundreds of inflatable life size armord tanks! mixed the inflatables up with the real tanks i bet it scard the opposition-jplaysguitar

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I had no idea! Thanks for the info see I guess you do learn something new everyday!

Hey, i just wanted to add that I`ve heard the punji sticks were usually smeared with feces or something to cause infection. Other than that, nice collection, although these are mostly "animal" weapons, there were about 4 or 5 I hadn`t heard of before. Thanks for putting this together for us.

There is nothing insane about any of these ideas. If proven to be workable and effective, they should use anything they can.

I doubt the gay bomb would work though. I don't care how horny I get I would never consider another male to satisfy my cravings. They are just barking up the wrong tree with that one.

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No problem I like doing these kind of threads lol well I would like to start doing these kind of threads because it is sometimes more interesting than all the other negative stuff that's going on.

JohnPhoenix- I don't care how well it works, animals should never be used and sacrificed with their lives in order to bring down the enemy. That is wrong

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You say, " animals should never be used and sacrificed with their lives in order to bring down the enemy. That is wrong "

Why do you put animals lives above humans?

Luckily these days we have drones - but back then they didn't. If it came to it. which would you rather do.. let your fellow man die because someone was about to kill him or if you could stop it with the help of an animal, kill the enemy at the expense of the animals life to save the humans?

I have had dogs and cats.. wives too all kinds of animals and I have loved them all as pets and wish nothing bad happen to them. I would not senselessly use animals in this manner if there was another way - but back when these things were dreamed up these ideas were needed.

Take Guard dogs.You have a beloved pet, a Doberman - trained to guard you and save your life. one night a thief breaks in and threatens to kill you at gunpoint. You doggie attacks and stops the thief, but gets shot in the process. Oh well. that was a good dog. He did the job he was there for. Mourn him and get over it.- and then get another dog to protect you.

reply to post by JohnPhoenix


Well since I have respect for every form of life I wouldn't use animals. In fact this is what I'd do.

I would use my sinister evil mind to create things so horrific it would change the face of war forever. It would be so horrific that people would fear me forever. My own friends would leave me for a safer place. You would think it's the devil that is alive and living on earth if you ever got in my way during war.

Not animals, myself and my sinister mind is what I would use.

Originally posted by JohnPhoenix
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You say, " animals should never be used and sacrificed with their lives in order to bring down the enemy. That is wrong "

Why do you put animals lives above humans?

Luckily these days we have drones - but back then they didn't. If it came to it. which would you rather do.. let your fellow man die because someone was about to kill him or if you could stop it with the help of an animal, kill the enemy at the expense of the animals life to save the humans?

I have had dogs and cats.. wives too all kinds of animals and I have loved them all as pets and wish nothing bad happen to them. I would not senselessly use animals in this manner if there was another way - but back when these things were dreamed up these ideas were needed.

Take Guard dogs.You have a beloved pet, a Doberman - trained to guard you and save your life. one night a thief breaks in and threatens to kill you at gunpoint. You doggie attacks and stops the thief, but gets shot in the process. Oh well. that was a good dog. He did the job he was there for. Mourn him and get over it.- and then get another dog to protect you.

edit on 19-4-2011 by JohnPhoenix because: addition

If I were to choose between my pet and a random person, I'd pick my pet.