We were gonig to drop bats on japan?

[Rob52240]

This was from the history channel's weird weapons (WW2) series and I found it very interesting.  We were going to give bats miniature time fuzed napalm grenades and then drop huge numbers of them over japanese cities in broad daylight so they would look for attics, eaves and overhangs to hide in.  We know it would have worked because some of the test bats escaped before they did a full test and burned a bunch of buildings down at the military base where they were doing the development.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDX9rRuHcn8

I'd also suggest looking up the Habakuk aircraft carrier.  Some genius figured out that if you mix sawdust and water, then freeze it you get bulletproof ice that doesn't melt quickly.  They were going to make an island sized aircraft carrier with an on board refer plant to tow out into the north atlantic and bomb Germany from. 
When they were demonstrating the strength of this new wonder material they shot a block of it with a revolver and the bullet ricocheted back and hit one of the admirals who was present in the leg.

[B-17]

I've heard of the one about the aircraft carrier before, but not the bats.

[MaSonZ]

I've heard of the one about the aircraft carrier before, but not the bats.

other way around for me 

[Rob52240]

I just realized that this wasn't much different than the russian dog bombs.  The way I understand it is that they were trained to find food under tanks.  The only problem was that they trained the dogs with russian tanks, not german tanks.

[MaSonZ]

I just realized that this wasn't much different than the russian dog bombs.  The way I understand it is that they were trained to find food under tanks.  The only problem was that they trained the dogs with russian tanks, not german tanks.

sucks to be a rusian tanker, dont it? 

[Rob52240]

I think that back then it would have sucked to be a Russian.  Period.

[MaSonZ]

I think that back then it would have sucked to be a Russian.  Period.

or anything other then an Aryan in Europe.

[LThunderpocket]

yeah,and some bats got loose and burned a military base

[palef]

or anything other then an Aryan in Europe.

Actually, Stalin killed more Russians during the great patriotic war than Hitler did.

[AWwrgwy]

yeah,and some bats got loose and burned a military base

A hanger. They did their job.

Read a book.



http://www.amazon.com/Bat-Bomb-World-Secret-Weapon/dp/0292707908

They developed some "atomic" thing instead.

or don't






wrongway

[LThunderpocket]

A hanger. They did their job.

Read a book.

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http://www.amazon.com/Bat-Bomb-World-Secret-Weapon/dp/0292707908

They developed some "atomic" thing instead.

or don't


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wrongway

sorry,the memory is vague since the last time i saw that show i was 16

[MaSonZ]

Actually, Stalin killed more Russians during the great patriotic war than Hitler did.

didnt know that. something the wschools fail to teach us

[Digr1]

might have worked if the bats could take the alltitude and not black out and died

[caldera]

IIRC, a mock up "Japanese" village was built to test the viability of the weapon.  The bats survived the freeze and took up residence under the eaves of the wooden buildings.  The whole thing burned to the ground.   

[Greebo]

Did you hear the story of the WW2 pigeon guided bomb? I kid you not.

Basically they trained pigeons by putting one in a box with a glass window with a picture of a ship on the other side. When it pecked on the window where the picture of a ship was, it got a reward of food. If it pecked in the wrong place it got nothing. They moved the picture of the ship around and the pigeon followed the motion.

The idea was to put the trained pigeon in the nose of a bomb and drop it over a ship. The pigeon would peck on the window at the position of the ship. If the ship was off to the left the left sided pecking would be picked up by sensors which would then adjust turning vanes to the left and so on. A few tests were carried out and the idea actually seemed to work to a degree. In the end the advent of radar overtook the idea.

However the idea was transferred to air sea rescue. Pigeons were trained to peck whenever they saw the colour orange. Then they were given a clear view of the ocean from an air sea rescue aircraft and if they saw a life jacket or raft their pecking activated an alarm.