What is the most unusual implement of war you have seen?
(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 )
While nothing was said at the time I can imagine his comments later.
I have seen that photo before, but it was alongside photos like this one:
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]
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...
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?
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.
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...