What is the most unusual implement of war you have seen?

LTC Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 12:45:24 -0500

A toilet was used as an aerial bomb during the Vietnam War.

(It's true - look!: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/vietnam-war/its-true-a-toilet-was-used-as-an-aerial-bomb-during-the-vietnam-war.html )

It's True! A toilet was used as an aerial bomb during the Vietnam War

As American involvement in the Vietnam War began, the A-1 Skyraider was still the medium attack aircraft in many carrier air wings, although it was planned to be replaced by the A-6A Intruder as p

Response by SSgt Alex Robinson made Nov 4 at 2015 12:50 PM

SSgt Alex Robinson — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 12:50:06 -0500

Anything from the Middle Ages such as a mace

Response by Capt Seid Waddell made Nov 4 at 2015 12:53 PM

Capt Seid Waddell — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 12:53:22 -0500

That's got to be a first; is it real?

I have seen that photo before, but it was alongside photos like this one:

Response by PO3 Steven Sherrill made Nov 4 at 2015 12:54 PM

PO3 Steven Sherrill — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 12:54:01 -0500

LTC Private RallyPoint Member anytime Taco Bell is eaten, or Chipotle in Washington/Oregon the toilet becomes weaponized.

Response by SGT William Howell made Nov 4 at 2015 1:17 PM

SGT William Howell — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 13:17:55 -0500

For me I can only think of the D-BIED Donkey Born Improvised Explosive Device.

http://www.stripes.com/tale-of-donkey-borne-ied-gives-dark-laughs-downrange-1.150016

Tale of donkey-borne IED gives dark laughs downrange

In the command center, the men were laughing. A donkey-borne IED. Who would do that? Who would load a donkey with explosives and send it tottering down the road, an unwilling, unwitting suicide bomber?

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 4 at 2015 1:25 PM

MSG Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 13:25:16 -0500

Dead animals and/or people used as catapult ammo and slung at fortifications during sieges

Response by SSG Warren Swan made Nov 4 at 2015 1:32 PM

SSG Warren Swan — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 13:32:02 -0500

Can Omlette with Cheese MRE count? Ain't nothing about it an omlette, and the cheese was questionable unless it was separate and you had the MRE bread

Response by LCDR Jeffery Dixon made Nov 4 at 2015 1:57 PM

LCDR Jeffery Dixon — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 13:57:03 -0500

Body sniffers shape like jungle plants in Vietnam

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 4 at 2015 2:41 PM

MSG Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 14:41:17 -0500

I once ate a chili mac MRE with jalapeno cheese. The gas produced was able to wake people up from a dead sleep. This count?

Response by 1SG Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 4 at 2015 2:41 PM

1SG Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 14:41:34 -0500

The Romans used to load beehives on Onagers and throw them into advancing heavy infantry to break up their formations. It was used to great effect on the Macedonians.

Response by PO2 Steven Erickson made Nov 4 at 2015 2:49 PM

PO2 Steven Erickson — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 14:49:45 -0500

This dumb-ass idea. Let's put a tactical nuclear warhead inside a depth charge, strap it on a rocket and launch it out of a submarine.

I still can't wrap my head around that SUBROC system. Obviously designed by non-sub sailors... probably by aerospace engineering nutbags...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUM-44_SUBROC

UUM-44 SUBROC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The UUM-44 SUBROC (SUBmarine ROCket) was a type of submarine-launched rocket deployed by the United States Navy as an anti-submarine weapon. It carried a 5 kiloton nuclear warhead.[1]

Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 4 at 2015 3:10 PM

CPT Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 15:10:07 -0500

Probably the most unusual in my time was the Davey Crockett (nuclear device), a wired nuclear system to be used at Battalion level.

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 4 at 2015 4:28 PM

MSG Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 16:28:20 -0500

Response by CDR Kenneth Kaiser made Nov 4 at 2015 6:42 PM

CDR Kenneth Kaiser — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 18:42:35 -0500

I remember we used to have a 40 mm hand cranked belt fed grenade launcher mounted over our aft 50 on PBRs (River Boats not the Beer). If you cranked it too fast it jammed. If you cranked it too slow it jammed. I always considered it next to useless. You usually did not have the time to get your crank speed right to make it effective. THe second I saw used effectively was C 4 wrapped around trees on trails. Made excellent Anti personnel devices. We also had two boats with a 20mm aircraft cannon mounted in tandem with the forward 50. Damn thing would cut down trees. Unfortunately it tended to turn the boat so you had to constantly correct.

Response by SSG Fred Campbell made Nov 4 at 2015 11:25 PM

SSG Fred Campbell — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 23:25:59 -0500

Gotta be a donkey IED...

Response by CAPT Kevin B. made Nov 5 at 2015 1:54 AM

CAPT Kevin B. — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 01:54:52 -0500

I'm trying to remember the common name, but the Native Americans have this plant up in the northwest that their language translates as "Itchy Butt". If you ate the fruit, there were very fine spines in it that did a good cylinder ream job on the way out. It was a good thing to spike a food supply with. It wasn't lethal but there likely were some who wished it was.

Response by PO1 Jeff Coon made Oct 25 at 2016 6:17 PM

PO1 Jeff Coon — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 18:17:13 -0400

There were always those stories about our seagoing forfathers using every thing that would shoot from a cannon. ANYTHING.

Response by PO1 Jeff Coon made Oct 25 at 2016 6:20 PM

PO1 Jeff Coon — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 18:20:01 -0400

Oh wait... we had some JO's launch water balloons at another boat during a PASSEX, does that count?

Response by SPC James Anderson made Oct 25 at 2016 8:34 PM

SPC James Anderson — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 20:34:56 -0400

Never saw them but people never believe me when I bring up the ill fated Soviet anti-tank dogs of WW2.