In November of 2009 a British sniper named Craig Harrison successfully landed a kill shot from 2,479 metres away in Afghanistan. That’s right, a mile and a half. From this distance, here is what a man would look like in the targeting reticle of a Schmidt & Bender 5-25×56 telescopic sight like the one used […]
It is 1861. A man named Dr. Richard J. Gatling is inventing a complex engine of ballistic destruction ironically, Gatling claimed, to reduce the size of armies and therefore reduce the deaths in combat and to show how futile war was. And so, during the civil war and many times from then on, people actually […]
If you thought the Japanese kamikaze airplane was insane, then you haven’t heard of the German ELBE propeller fighter. It’s not actually called a propeller fighter, we just made that up because its actual name is the Sonderkommando, and we have no idea what that means.
Normally when a country designs and builds a plane designed to do fighting in a war, they hope that the plane will not explode in a violent ball of fire. Well, as we have discussed before, Japan does not know what normal means. So they went ahead and built a plane designed to do exactly […]
Last time we told you about 2 animals that the military attempted to use in battle. After those projects, you might have assumed that the military scientists would have given up on strapping bombs to animals and throwing them at the enemy. Well, you’d be wrong.
Every year the military throws millions of dollars at research it develop new and more advanced weaponry. But the world of military science is not all lasers and guided missiles. Sometimes, just sometimes, the highly educated military scientists will forego the use of sophisticated weapon technology, and just strap bombs to various critters instead.
Since the dawn of war, humans have been coming up with an incredible amount of different ways to explode each other. In fact, it seems like every day the engineers at the gun factory are coming up with more powerful, more accurate guns that are forged out of the best metals and the purest lunacy.
The Tumbleweed Tank was the brainchild of a Texas inventor, who chooses to remain anonymous. This is probably because he doesn’t want anyone to know that his only invention was a giant metal ball with guns sticking out of the side.
After becoming aware of the jet stream over the Pacific Ocean that blows toward the United States and Canada, some high-profile military scientists came up with the the brilliant idea of strapping some bombs to balloons.
The Goblin wasn’t so much a jet fighter as it was a flying roll of toilet paper. It was so pathetic and turd-shaped it could barely fly on its own, and had to be carried by a larger, more competent aircraft.
