Call for nominations in a new tournament. Coolest military stuff.

[Rain Man]

I've been watching Band of Brothers, and they had some really cool equipment in World War II. I mean, really cool.

So what's the coolest piece of military equipment ever? Give me your nominations and we'll have a tournament.

For the purposes of this poll, "military equipment" will be defined as any inanimate object used primarily for military purposes, and it can be a class of items or a specific historical item. So, for example, military equipment might include:

Sherman Tank
Crossbow
F-15 Eagle fighter
WWII American infantry "pot" helmet
Nimitz-Class aircraft carrier
The USS Constitution
WWII American Bayonet
Nazi SS dress uniform
Luger pistol
The Congressional Medal of Honor
Atomic bomb
The Star-Spangled Banner from Fort McHenry
Claymore mines
Morning Star
Fort McHenry
Those cool Hessian fur helmets
Bazooka
K-ration
Suit of Armor
Jeep
Sopwith Camel

Nominations are now open (banging gavel).


Minor rules revisions: you have to name the object for me, and it must be something that was not experimental. We're talking off the shelf stuff or stuff that was on active duty.

[notorious]

German 88mm

Deadliest gun in WWII.

[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by Donger

Davvvvy! Daaavy Crockett!!

[Rain Man]

Minor rules revisions: you have to name the object for me, and it must be something that was not experimental. We're talking off the shelf stuff or stuff that was on active duty.

[stumppy]

The Best.

[mikeyis4dcats.]

A-10

/thread

[Warrior5]

P-51 Mustang

Panther Mk V

[MagicHef]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Minor rules revisions: you have to name the object for me, and it must be something that was not experimental. We're talking off the shelf stuff or stuff that was on active duty.

They only built 3 because the war ended, but they were intended to be in active duty. I'm just not sure how you get cooler than the largest submarine in the world (until the nuclear ones arrived several decades later) launching kamikaze planes with a catapult.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-400-class_submarine

[Hoover]

Schwerer Gustav

The German railway gun.

The fully assembled gun weighed nearly 1,350 tonnes, and could fire shells weighing seven tonnes to a range of 47 kilometres (29 mi).[1] The gun was designed in preparation for the Battle of France, but was not ready for action when the battle began, and in any case the Wehrmacht's Blitzkrieg offensive through Belgium rapidly outflanked and isolated the Maginot Line's static defenses, forcing them to surrender uneventfully and making their destruction unnecessary. Gustav was later employed in the Soviet Union at the siege of Sevastopol during Operation Barbarossa, where among other things, it destroyed a munitions depot buried in the bedrock under a bay. The gun was moved to Leningrad, and may have been intended to be used in the Warsaw Uprising like other German heavy siege pieces, but the rebellion was crushed before it could be prepared to fire. Gustav was destroyed near the end of the war in 1945 to avoid capture by the Red Army.

It was the largest-calibre rifled weapon ever used in combat, the heaviest mobile artillery piece ever built in terms of overall weight, and fired the heaviest shells of any artillery piece.[2][3] It is only surpassed in calibre by the British Mallet's Mortar and the American Little David mortar (both 36 inch; 914 mm).[4]

[dmahurin]

Radar, chaff, the phalanx formation

[Hoover]

[cdcox]

Catapult.

[cdcox]

Nunchucks.

[Saulbadguy]

IED's.

[TimBone]

Also, Army sluts. They are great for morale.