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Title: 6 Crazy Improvised weapons
Post by: Curlew on June 01, 2011, 11:50:26 AM
For those of you who don't waste your time on Cracked.com, So I bring to you a article you might enjoy:

http://www.cracked.com/article_19220_the-6-most-badass-weapons-ever-improvised-in-battle.html
Title: Re: 6 Crazy Improvised weapons
Post by: KgB on June 01, 2011, 05:41:58 PM
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In the dark days of WWII (the part before America moseyed on in and just totally saved everybody, all by themselves, no foolin')
  :bhead
Title: Re: 6 Crazy Improvised weapons
Post by: Wolfala on June 01, 2011, 07:25:24 PM
In 1940, a man named David Stirling came up with a plan to fight the Nazis in North Africa: Drive American Willys Jeeps hundreds of miles across uncharted desert while evading Axis patrols, sneak up on a Luftwaffe Airfield in the middle of the night, and wreck the place on foot. Nobody said it was a good plan. It's like somebody went through an actual strategy and replaced every instance of the word "tactical" with "balls out."
But astoundingly, it worked fine, for a bit. 

Eventually, though, the Germans upped the security on their airfields. So the SAS took a cue from Compton, and incorporated the mother of all drive-bys. They'd take up to half a dozen heavy machineguns pilfered from Allied aircraft, and strap them to their jeeps, resulting in these wildly over-powered, cartoonish gun platforms: That is a vehicle comprised entirely of guns, ammo, gas, water and poor impulse control. 

Not even radiator grills survived the strip down. Using these old-timey Twisted Metal characters, Stirling and company would tear bellybutton past an Axis airbase in the dead of night, all guns blazing with tracer rounds, and presumably high-five as the world exploded around them. After that it was just a matter of getting as far away as possible before the remaining ground attack aircraft could get airborne. Hopefully they saved their turbo power-ups, instead of making the rookie mistake and just grabbing all the fireballs.
Title: Re: 6 Crazy Improvised weapons
Post by: tokenjo on June 01, 2011, 08:41:00 PM
That was a interesting read, i think that guy shooting the tank sniper rifle probably needed a new rotator cup.   Sooooo ... When are we gona get it?   

Tokenjo
Title: Re: 6 Crazy Improvised weapons
Post by: M0nkey_Man on June 01, 2011, 09:33:03 PM
That was a interesting read, i think that guy shooting the tank sniper rifle probably needed a new rotator cup.   Sooooo ... When are we gona get it?   

Tokenjo
mount it on the SH33P
Title: Re: 6 Crazy Improvised weapons
Post by: oakranger on June 01, 2011, 10:37:41 PM
The Drip Rifle is intresting. 
Title: Re: 6 Crazy Improvised weapons
Post by: tassos on June 01, 2011, 11:08:15 PM
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Wifeack Weapon very very mean grrrrrrrrrrrrrr :bolt:
Title: Re: 6 Crazy Improvised weapons
Post by: Rob52240 on June 02, 2011, 12:12:33 AM
The "Safe" Bedside table.
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http://www.jamesmcadam.co.uk/portfolio_html/sb_table.html♦
Title: Re: 6 Crazy Improvised weapons
Post by: Rob52240 on June 02, 2011, 12:17:43 AM
I liked this one too.  The idea was to make a police car so cheap that the city can afford to wreck it in a high speed chase.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxz0hQErE0k

How about The M65 280mm Atomic Cannon - Nuclear Artillery Test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goMNAxFqGbk
Title: Re: 6 Crazy Improvised weapons
Post by: allaire on June 02, 2011, 08:20:17 AM
Atomic Annie was an awesome piece of hardware but it did have a major drawback.  It couldn't throw the weapon far enough to keep the crew from being irradiated; still cool though.
Title: Re: 6 Crazy Improvised weapons
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on June 02, 2011, 10:05:44 AM
Heh interesting view on history on the last account: "The brits were too far to supply weapons and the russians didn't give a damn"

Considering the russians made a pact with the nazis to split and share poland.