If human beings are blessed with one gift it's the ability to devise new and fascinating ways to kill each other ever burning fire sticky grenades or tanks that shoot off nuclear missiles these may sound like imaginary weapons straight out of a sci-fi movie but these are all examples of very real and extremely weird weapons from the.

Past and the present many of these ridiculous odd and exceptionally weird weapons were developed by militaries all over the world but either provide impractical or never even got past the prototype stage in today's video we're going to take a look at some of the stranger and more impressive ways people have found to wipe out life.

These ridiculous weapon systems vehicles and concepts were used mostly during world war ii when desperate countries threw together whatever they had to rally their people watch till the end you'll be amazed but first subscribe and hit the bell now let's get started sedgley oss .38 the sedgley oss combined.

A gun with a glove for one heck of a knockout punch this might be my favorite oss weapon the sedgley oss .38 is a single shot pistol attached to a heavy leather glove it was loaded with a single 38 caliber round that would fire when the plunger was depressed the plunger was oriented to depress when the user punched a bad guy.

To be fair the oss .38 was not just a oss weapon it was issued by the navy to allow sailors to have a quick attack weapon if they encountered an enemy when clearing brush in the dense islands of the pacific that's actually where the gun saw success well not exactly success but more success than most oss weapons it was indeed issued but there doesn't.

Seem to be any recorded uses of the sedgley oss .38 it's one heck of a shooting glove german panzerfaust one of the most notorious grenade launchers used in world war ii was the legendary german panzerfaust it could effortlessly penetrate armor 200 millimeters thick.

This was enough to blow a hole in the front of an even the strongest soviet tank the panzerfaust weighed just 7 kilograms and it had low recoil thus even teenagers could use this grenade launcher to effectively hit the target it consisted of a small disposable preloaded launch tube firing a high explosive anti-tank warhead and was.

Intended to be operated by a single soldier a number of variations of the panzerfaust were produced which increased the size of the warhead and increased the range of the weapon in the end however even with 6.7 million produced the panzerfaust couldn't turn the tide of the war maxim machine gun here's where the industrial revolution.

Really got serious about killing people capable of churning out 600 rounds a minute the maxim was ugly destruction come to play whenever it was rolled out into the field of battle maxim's invention brought industrial strength killing to the battlefield more than any other weapon developed in the late 19th or early 20th century the maxim gun is.

Responsible for changing the nature of warfare forever about as accurate as a subreddit it made up for weak aim with several metric tons of white hot lead british number 74 sticky bomb this huge built lollipop style weapon is not an ordinary thing to play around with it is a british number 74 sticky bomb that was designed to attack rival.

Tanks it was thrown at tanks and spark off blowing a hole in the tank's armor but for this bomb to work the tank had to be dry and clean a sack covered with adhesive material was placed over the grenade and in that way it could stick to rival's gear but for this grenade to hit a tank soldiers had to walk up very close to.

The enemy's tank german stern pistol if you think that metal stick with a grenade on it is pretty awkward and ugly then look at this marvel the storm pistol was an attempt by germany during world war ii to create a multi-purpose weapon which could be used by any infantryman.

It was a compact bazooka that could be held in one hand but still pierced through armor 80 millimeters thick that's twice as thick as an s34 tank's armor it's like artillery that conveniently fits in your pocket the weapon did not see mass production and its intended niche was filled mid-war by the panzer shrek and the.

Panzerfaust series of launchers krumloff stg4 the krumlov is a perfect example of germany's late war obsession with impractical secret weapons to turn the tide of the world war ii the chrome loft was a curved barrel attachment for the german stg44 rifle which enabled the weapon to be fired around corners its shape meant it could.

Also be used from within a tank to counter enemy infantry armed with mines or other anti-tank weapons in use it was found that the barrel attachment became distorted and quickly wore out from the pressure of the rounds being fired also the bullets often shattered on exiting the krumlov the krumlov was certainly not a war.

Winning weapon but its widespread use would have aided the german defense cost more allied lives and lengthened the war although a failure at the time the concept has been revived with some modern weapons allowing the user to engage the enemy without exposing themselves goliath tracked mine.

The goliath track mine known as beetle tanks by the allies referred to german unmanned disposable demolition vehicles that were used during world war ii the tracked vehicles could carry 60 kilograms of explosives and was steered remotely using a joystick control box attached to the rear of the goliath by 650 meters of triple strand cable.

Each goliath had to be disposable as each was built specifically to be blown up along with any enemy target 7564 goliaths were produced during the war but they were considered unsuccessful due to their high cost low speed poor ground clearance armor vulnerabilities and difficult portability.

These combined factors prevented a majority of goliaths from reaching their intended targets m65 atomic cannon the m65 was the world's first atomic artillery piece and the most powerful mobile cannon in america army history one such weapon could easily wipe out a whole enemy division of about 17 000 men in their.

Gear nickname atomic annie it used w-9 shells with a length of 138 centimeters these shells weighed 364 kilograms the m65 could fire atomic warhead of a distance of kilometers the shell would not hit the ground but rather explode in midair which increased its destructive radius as an m65 cannon weighed 42 tons it was transported by two special trucks.

15 minutes after firing its round the atomic annie could be moved to another location making it hard for the enemy to detect little david the little david mortar has a name that can be decisive because it is considered along with the british mallets mortar to be the largest caliber gun ever made.

Little david had a 36 inch caliber mortar and could fire 3 650 pound shells through a 22 foot muzzle at a distance of six miles five men were needed to load the propelling charge two to ram the projectile into the muzzle and two equipped with hand brushes had to crawl into the bore to.

Clean it the whole piece weighed 173 thousand pounds and would be split up into two parts for two 40-ton artillery tractors to transport it vespa 150 tap another contender for the most bizarre war machines of all time is the vespa 150 tap absurdly the vespa 150 tap was based on the updated version of the goofy and gutless civilian italian motor.

Scooter seen in the 1952 movie roman holiday the idea behind the scooter was for it to be dropped in with paratroopers during operations to provide heavy support the world's finest motor scooter sported a beefed up frame and lower gear ratios than that of a standard models it bristled with equipment racks for luggage gear and.

Wore a dull olive drab or sand colored paint scheme in the place of flashy civilian colors the bike was powered by a 145 cubic centimeter single cylinder two-stroke motor with a rotary valve design which allowed a two percent oil mixture soldiers riley said the 246 pound machine could attain speeds of about 40.

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