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The World's Spookiest Weapons

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the criminally-insane-working-for-the-government dept.

DesScorp writes "Popular Science has a piece on some outrageous ideas for weapons; some came to fruition, and others didn't. And while some of the weapons (atom bombs, chemical weapons, bats with bombs strapped to them that seek out homes and buildings at night) are truly frightening, some of them are also kind of silly, such as the Gay Bomb, and the Frisbee bomb that was labeled the 'Modular Disc-Wing Urban Cruise Munition.'"

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  1. Not very complete by paganizer · · Score: 4, Informative

    They missed a few. Nazi sound and compressed air weapons, the first "shoot around a corner" gun. The "Amerika Bomber" concept that Heinlein liked so much that he based a lot of his future history series around the concept.
    The american Gyrojet rocket pistol.

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  2. Re:Pigeon Guided Bombs in World War II by RDW · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mentioned here, along with the cat bomb, anti-tank dog and exploding rat (no, really):

    http://www.oddee.com/item_91684.aspx

  3. Re:The truth is... by maxume · · Score: 5, Informative

    Fourth paragraph from the bottom, $18 billion annually (for everyone on the planet) on cosmetics:

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/01/0111_040112_consumerism_2.html

    Iraq, $12 billion a month:

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23551693/

    Hopefully you are just misinformed.

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