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Post by whiteshore on Apr 26, 2016 11:58:47 GMT
I think this forum should have a thread dedicated to military weapons which should never have been built and here are some examples that I think should never have been built:
Warships:
Novgorod-Round Battleships, nuff said.
HMS Captain-incredibly top heavy and sank in bad weather
HIJMS Ryujo-They should have called the thing a fast escort carrier and used it as such instead of it being wasted as it was too small to be an effective fleet carrier
CSS Hunley-killed more Confederate than Union sailors
Most British Battlecruisers-had a disturbing tendency to explode in battle and take almost all their crew with them
Tanks:
T-35-seriously, it had FIVE turrets! Controlling the thing must have been a nightmare for the commander
Matilda I-80mm of armor and two machine guns?!
Panzer VIII Maus-superheavy tanks may be good in sci-fi but bad in real life but at least it's layout was relatively conventional as opposed to a multi-turreted nightmare like T-35
Italian WW2 Tanks-shoddily built and were practically serving themselves up for British tanks with their poor armor and armaments schemes, at least Japanese tanks were okay in China
I'll leave aircraft, artillery, and small arms up to people who are better versed at them than me.
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Apr 26, 2016 17:20:34 GMT
I'm not sure this can be considered a weapon, but during WWII, the Soviets trained suicide-bomber dogs to go under enemy tanks and blow them up. Besides being a waste of good dogs, they also more often than not destroyed the Soviet's own tanks.
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Post by lordroel on Apr 26, 2016 19:28:39 GMT
I'm not sure this can be considered a weapon, but during WWII, the Soviets trained suicide-bomber dogs to go under enemy tanks and blow them up. Besides being a waste of good dogs, they also more often than not destroyed the Soviet's own tanks. I once saw a clip of that, it broke my hart but then again in war everything is allowed.
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Post by orvillethird on Apr 27, 2016 1:54:09 GMT
The Hunley was historic, worked (more than can be said for some pieces of equipment) and will bring tourism to my state. I'd add in the M247 Sergeant York DIVAD.
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Post by whiteshore on Apr 29, 2016 23:49:55 GMT
What aircraft do you think should never have been built, folks?
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Post by lordroel on Apr 30, 2016 10:25:59 GMT
What aircraft do you think should never have been built, folks? The F104 Starfighter, really it was not a fighter but a flying coffin.
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Post by crustyoldssg on May 4, 2016 1:06:17 GMT
The Dragon ATGM-total POS
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Post by whiteshore on May 4, 2016 14:49:16 GMT
The Hunley was historic, worked (more than can be said for some pieces of equipment) and will bring tourism to my state. I'd add in the M247 Sergeant York DIVAD. I placed the Hunley along with HMS Captain and British Battlecruisers because it was deadly to it's own crew.
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Post by lordroel on May 4, 2016 15:06:05 GMT
The Hunley was historic, worked (more than can be said for some pieces of equipment) and will bring tourism to my state. I'd add in the M247 Sergeant York DIVAD. I placed the Hunley along with HMS Captain and British Battlecruisers because it was deadly to it's own crew. But as a concept it worked.
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Post by whiteshore on May 7, 2016 14:20:33 GMT
What tanks do you think should never have been built (either because they were deathtraps or because the concept was horrible or both)?
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