Weapons that suck

[Charon]

This is a thread for REAL LIFE WEAPONS that SUCK.

If you can think of a weapon that has an incredible flaw, post it here. If it's not a modern weapon, be sure to post the following design or enemy counterdesign that fixed those flaws.

[Moriarty]

Banshee rocke.... oh real weapons ... huh

[Swizy]

pls kill me

[Gryphos]

Pigeon guided missile... I'm not even fucking joking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

[James T. Kirk]

Banshee rocke.... oh real weapons ... huh

[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?

[Piemanlives]

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?

I remember reading about that, moral problems aside, it was kind of hilarious.

[Squidslinger Gilder]

I remember reading about this thing. Someone thought it was a great idea to mix airplane and tank. Yeah...it didn't work out. Least not until someone thought up the A-10 Warthog.

[Piemanlives]

The Tsar Tank, made to strike fear into the the hearts of the enemy, however it was under powered, vulnerable to artillery, and had a tendency of getting stuck.

[Sgt. Spoon]

The Tsar Tank, made to strike fear into the the hearts of the enemy, however it was under powered, vulnerable to artillery, and had a tendency of getting stuck.

Thanks for linking that. I saw it in a game once I never found out what it was called, or if it ever had existed. Safe to say, it would have been damn cool had it worked.

[N-Sunderland]

Now, anybody who found any of those things on Cracked.com, raise your hand.

*raises hand*