WEIRD Military Vehicles

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Picture #3 seems to be some sort of Photoshop or staged picture. That type of garden cart is a fairly recent invention.

Just a guess.

The #2 picture was a fighter that was intended to be carried in a bomber and then released and retrieved in flight. I think they found it really hard to do the in flight, so the concept was abandoned.

#4 and #5 were bridging concepts. Vehicles like #5 were used in WWII and are still in use to this day to the best of my knowledge.

Some of the others stuff is weird, but there were weirder ideas tried in WWII, including an aircraft carrier made of ice.

After WWII, the CIA had some really weird ideas for spy craft. That included a transmitter inside a cat and using pigeons to deliver bombs.
 
I saw one of these French Army mobile bridge in a Bastille Day parade in Paris... The thing is huge and very weird.

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Vehicle in that movie.....

I can't remember the WWII movie but there was a little car that had a second story of a gun turret with the guy standing up at the machine gun. It was really maneuverable but looked like was going to fall over while it zipped around all over the place.
 
Vehicle in that movie.....

I can't remember the WWII movie but there was a little armored car that had a second story of a gun turret with the guy standing up at the machine gun. It was really maneuverable but looked like was going to fall over while it zipped around all over the place.
 
I recognize many of them. The Goblin was an attempt by McDonnell Aircraft to put a parasite fighter aboard the B-36. The navy tried the same thing with dirigibles.

Necessity is the mother of invention.
 
We've all heard the saying, I'm sure, that "there is no problem that cannot be made worse with a Dremel tool."

Well, I'm fairly certain that there's also no problem that can't be made worse by a donkey with a panzerfaust.

But that's just my opinion.
 
rwsmith said:
I can't remember the WWII movie but there was a little armored car that had a second story of a gun turret with the guy standing up at the machine gun. It was really maneuverable but looked like was going to fall over while it zipped around all over the place.
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Perhaps you may be referring to a scout car shown in the Dirty Dozen, I do not recall its origin.

terry
 
I have an original WWII German pic somewhere that shows a 3.5 CM PAK mounted onto the front of ahalftrack. Its coming down some dusty road somewhere in Russia in summer 42.
 
#4 was called a Bobbin and was used to lay a flexible track over soft ground for tanks to follow. IIRC they were one of the many "funnies" specifically built for the Normandy invasion.

#5 was the first effective bridgelayer. Many similar vehicles have followed.

#10 is an upgunned and uparmoured Krettenkrad. Good luck with that. ;)

#20 may well be an airforce spoof.
 
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#1 A toy, guns way too small to be real. Tires look way too modern, not WWI.
#3 Fake
#6 Poor donkey.
#13 Staged, fake.
#17 I hope it's fake, way too difficult to aim. I'd want it to point in the opposite direction, for a quicker getaway.
#18 Obviously modern.
#23 Looks like photoshop to me.
 
The comments are good for a laugh, too. I especially like the one with the ***, and people referring to the guy as Steve Carell, wearing "shants." I also enjoy the segways. Someone commented about mall cops...
 
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