Unique Military Weapons

[Easy 6]

Our new B-21 stealth bomber now has a name

http://www.scout.com/military/warrio...er-b-21-raider

Just a hunch, but I'm willing to bet the wings arent going to be so pronounced... the flight control technology is surely in place by now to enable clipping them quite a bit to reduce the rcs

Cant wait to see the real deal and not just an artists rendering, it will be an awesome sight... no doubt

[2112]

How about that Zumwalt class destroyer? badass

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer

[2112]

Originally Posted by D2112

How about that Zumwalt class destroyer? badass

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer

2 × 155 mm (6 in)/62 caliber Advanced Gun System; 920 × 155 mm rounds,

I think thats the new rail gun

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by D2112

How about that Zumwalt class destroyer? badass

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer

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But many thanks for chiming in, railguns are definitely the future

[2112]

The invention of the proximity fuse during WWII

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_fuze

[tiptap]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVsdmxGNoQM

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by tiptap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVsdmxGNoQM

How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese?

[Donger]

Unique, at the time, and was the first of all "assault rifles."

The Sturmgewehr:



"The Germans always build good stuff."

[2112]

Originally Posted by Donger

Unique, at the time, and was the first of all "assault rifles."

The Sturmgewehr:



"The Germans always build good stuff."

Didnt Kalashnikov kind of copy the design of the Sturmgeweher to make the ak-47?

Some of the innovations the Germans had for back then were incredible.

The ME-262 the worlds first Jet fighter

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by D2112

The ME-262 the worlds first Jet fighter

Its easy to imagine Allied pilots shitting their pants when first encountering these things... great pic, this late model version on wiki is pretty sweet too, its incredibly sleek looking for that era

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262

The managed to down 550+ planes from 1942 to the end...

Thank God they didnt have THAT program underway sooner or we would all be speaking German

[GloucesterChief]

Misericorde dagger. A long thin dagger used to euthanize people who were too wounded to survive but whose wounds were not immediately fatal giving them a quick death instead of a lingering one. The name comes from the latin for 'act of mercy' and was used extensively in the Middle Ages and into the 17th century. The mercy kill was usually done by thrusting down between the neck and collarbone and piercing the heart. Another was was to thrust through visor into the eye socket and brain.

These daggers could also be used in close hand to hand combat.

[Aries Walker]

Originally Posted by GloucesterChief

Misericorde dagger. A long thin dagger used to euthanize people who were too wounded to survive but whose wounds were not immediately fatal giving them a quick death instead of a lingering one. The name comes from the latin for 'act of mercy' and was used extensively in the Middle Ages and into the 17th century. The mercy kill was usually done by thrusting down between the neck and collarbone and piercing the heart. Another was was to thrust through visor into the eye socket and brain.

These daggers could also be used in close hand to hand combat.

There it is! That's the one a lot of the (especially English) yeomanry would use against a knight. Once they got that 'mercy/ransom/have a nice day' thing out of their heads, they figured the best way to take down a knight was by swarming him. Then, the misericordes they each carried would stick in the weak points - as you said, the collarbone, but also through the armpit or - gulp - up the groin.

I saw a Misericorde School, I think in Massachusetts. It made me chuckle a little.

[Delaney37]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

Its easy to imagine Allied pilots shitting their pants when first encountering these things... great pic, this late model version on wiki is pretty sweet too, its incredibly sleek looking for that era

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262

The managed to down 550+ planes from 1942 to the end...

Thank God they didnt have THAT program underway sooner or we would all be speaking German

Everytime someone mentions the ME 262 I also think of the Horton 229. It was the precursor of stealth and a flying wing. Think small fighter version of the B-2. One can only imagine the what ifs if the Nazis could have figured out the dynamics of a making it work and producing it.

[MIAdragon]

Originally Posted by Delaney37

Everytime someone mentions the ME 262 I also think of the Horton 229. It was the precursor of stealth and a flying wing. Think small fighter version of the B-2. One can only imagine the what ifs if the Nazis could have figured out the dynamics of a making it work and producing it.

They are restoring one at the Steven F Udvar Hazy center in northern va. It's a place that's a bit out of the way but WELL with the trip.

[MIAdragon]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

Its easy to imagine Allied pilots shitting their pants when first encountering these things... great pic, this late model version on wiki is pretty sweet too, its incredibly sleek looking for that era

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262

The managed to down 550+ planes from 1942 to the end...

Thank God they didnt have THAT program underway sooner or we would all be speaking German

The 262 was developed in time to do significantly more damage than it did, Hittler in a syphilis rage forced it to turn into a light bomber instead of the air to air role it was designed for.