Posted on Nov 4, 2015
What is the most unusual implement of war you have seen?
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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 - look!: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/vietnam-war/its-true-a-toilet-was-used-as-an-aerial-bomb-during-the-vietnam-war.html )
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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?
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LTC (Join to see) - One of them was my squad leader. Everyone else was asleep but me, and I let one go (real silent and violent), and his words were "Livingston, you nasty ass."
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MSG (Join to see) - MANY years ago I was on Division staff. Came time for the annual PT test and as fate would have it the Chief of Staff volunteered to hold my feet for the sit-ups... somewhere around the count of thirty I cut loose... I was so embarrassed.
While nothing was said at the time I can imagine his comments later.
While nothing was said at the time I can imagine his comments later.
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LTC (Join to see) - OMG THAT IS FUNNY!!! Well, now it is. Not sure it was so funny at the moment.
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LTC (Join to see) anytime Taco Bell is eaten, or Chipotle in Washington/Oregon the toilet becomes weaponized.
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That's got to be a first; is it real?
I have seen that photo before, but it was alongside photos like this one:
I have seen that photo before, but it was alongside photos like this one:
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SSG Warren Swan
I don't know what's more dangerous...the A-10 itself or an Airman with a rifle under it. I know the plane can hit targets....the second one, don't know about that. lol
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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.
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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
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]
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Capt Seid Waddell
PO2 Steven Erickson, LTC (Join to see), that seems to this AF type to be the equivalent of a thermonuclear hand grenade.
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PO2 Steven Erickson
EXACTLY! Scuttlebutt on the boat was that there was a 60% chance of doing yourself in when using it at less than maximum range. I know that the tactic we practiced was the "over the shoulder shot" - the boat would launch the thing at the target while facing the opposite direction, then dive deep and go to flank speed. When you timed the launch-to-impact, we'd come shallow to minimize the pressure wave from the detonation. Or so we were told...
You're right, Capt Seid Waddell, this is one of those things that meets TWO categories of "close that counts"... hand grenades AND thermonuclear weapons...
You're right, Capt Seid Waddell, this is one of those things that meets TWO categories of "close that counts"... hand grenades AND thermonuclear weapons...
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PO2 Steven Erickson
34 miles... and a thermobaric over-pressure such as that from a nuclear detonation travels faster and with less loss in water as opposed to air.
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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
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?
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LTC (Join to see)
SGT William Howell I've seen them hidden inside the carcass of animals along side the road too. effective disguise.
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Capt Seid Waddell
SSgt Alex Robinson, the 4th century BC Chinese semi-automatic crossbow was a surprise to me.
http://www.grandhistorian.com/chinesesiegewarfare/siegeweapons-zhugenu.html
http://www.grandhistorian.com/chinesesiegewarfare/siegeweapons-zhugenu.html
Chinese Siege Warfare - ZhugeNu
The Zhuge Nu, named after the military genius Zhuge Liang, the Shu (Han) Prime Minister of the Three Kingdoms period, was strictly speaking not a siege weapon. However, its widespread use as a handheld defensive weapon in the defense of fortifications made this a vital weapon during a siege.
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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.
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CAPT Kevin B. that makes me squirm in my seat. So lets ship a truck load to GITMO.
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CPL Mark Kropla
Common juniper berry is one I know of here in Washington state that is said to give you stinky finger.
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PO2 Steven Erickson
I can see this design meeting:
SATAN: OK. Getting hit and killed by a beer truck just isn't ironic enough. Need something more... gruesome. Any ideas?
MINION: What if we take a chariot, put a whole bunch of spikey-pokey things on it. That way, when humans get run over by it, they'll impale themselves and die slowly and painfully, spreading their internal organs all over the battlefield!
SATAN: That's brilliant! I knew you'd come in handy, Dr. Mengele...
SATAN: OK. Getting hit and killed by a beer truck just isn't ironic enough. Need something more... gruesome. Any ideas?
MINION: What if we take a chariot, put a whole bunch of spikey-pokey things on it. That way, when humans get run over by it, they'll impale themselves and die slowly and painfully, spreading their internal organs all over the battlefield!
SATAN: That's brilliant! I knew you'd come in handy, Dr. Mengele...
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