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Weapons that suck
Swizy:
Guys let's put pricks on our gun, we rebuild houses with them after the war!
HamsterIV:
I give to you the Chauchat
WW 1 France's idea of what a light machine gun should be. It had a reputation of jamming if dirt got into the magazine or firing compartment. Just the sort of thing you want to give to troops in muddy trenches. Also the barrel could not be exchanged when it got overheated.
Sammy B. T.:
The original Bazooka was quite a failure when it came to German tank destruction. While it allegedly fired over a 100 yards, it was really found to only really be about 30 as you had to hit the tread or the very rear of a tank. Patton described it not as a tank hunter but as a weapon of last resort for infantry as they are overran by tanks.
Lord Dick Tim:
I would need to do some research, but weren't a lot of the first forced air capture designs for automatic weapons total failures?
WhiteWeasel:
In WWII Russians used to strapped bombs to dogs, and trained them to run under tanks and when they got ran over the bomb would detonate. Moral problems aside, the dogs used were trained with russian tanks-which ran on diesel and the germans used petrol. Little did the russians know is that a lot of animals use scent over sight as their primary means of detection. See where this is going?
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