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Silbervogel
Silbervogel, German for silver bird, was created by Eugen Sanger and lrene Bredt in the late 1930's for the Germans. It was seen as the new rocket technology, It flew long distance. -
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Project Habakkuk
Project Habbakuk was the name of an ingenious project thought up by Geoffrey Pyke. They were used against the Germans U-boat The Allies were losing huge numbers of supply ships to German U-boats in the Atlantic. -
Pigeon Guided Missile
It was invented by an American psychologist B.F.Skinner,it was as a way to delivering a missile accurately against a target. An image of the target would be projected in front of it, and the pigeon would be trained to recognize it. The National Defense Research Committee committed $25,000 to this research -
Sonderkommando
Germany became subject to massive bombing attacks by heavy Allied bombers. In desperation, Nazi Germany formed a unit that they hoped would temporarily halt the British and American bomber offensive to give them time to build up large enough quantities of the formidable Me 262 jet fighter, to counter the Allied bombers. -
Bat Bombs
It was develpoed in the wake of Pearl Harbor. It was a ridiciulous weapon. They had the idea of killing 1000 bats. The plan was to release bat bombs over Japanese cities having widely-dispersed industrial targets. The bats would spread far from the point of release due to the relatively high altitude of their release, then at dawn they would hide in buildings across the city. -
Bachem Ba 349
The aircraft was launched up a vertical 8 meter (25ft) rail attached to a small tower. It was a World War II German point-defence rocket powered interceptor -
Anti-tank dogs
were dogs taught to carry explosives to tanks, armored vehicles and other military targets. They were intensively trained by the Soviet and Russian military forces between 1930 and 1996 and used in 1941–1942 against German tanks in World War II. -
X-Class Midget Submarines
The x-class was a series of submarines built by the Royal Navy during the Second World War. These tiny submarines only displaced 30 tonnes of water when submerged, were 15.55 metres long. -
Ohka Suicide Plane
The Japanese aircraft carrier Unryū was a fleet aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy which served during World War II. She was commissioned on 6 August 1944 and eventually torpedoed and sunk by US submarine USS Redfish (SS-395) in the East China Sea on 19 December that same year -
V-3 Supergun
Developed as a so-called vengeance weapon in order to strike back at London, as Allied bomber fleets pounded German cities to rubble, the V-3 cannon was capable to delivering a 140kg (1310lb) shell to a range of more than 161 km (100 miles).
