This is a metanode listing all the bizarre military equipment on E2, including a small description of each item to explain why it is worth listing here. First is the name of the piece of equipment, second is the era in which it was developed and third is its country of origin. Please /msg me if you have suggestions on nodes to add to this list. Remember that this node is supposed to list bizarre equipment, so don't suggest any rare weapons that are not really strange. Thanks to Ruben for helping with this node.
Updated: 1.8.2002 (added Maus).
- AC-130H/U Gunship - Vietnam war - USA
- A transport plane with a shitload of weapons instead of cargo space
- Dora - WW2 - Germany
- An insanely large railway gun, the largest ever built
- V-3 - WW2 - Germany
- Perhaps the most insane cannon ever built, with a 150m barrel
- Fliegerfaust - WW2 - Germany
- A shoulder mounted anti-aircraft rocket launcher
- Microwave Pulse Gun - Modern - USA
- A (supposedly) non-lethal crowd control weapon that uses microwaves
- Nahverteidigungswaffe - WW2 - Germany
- An otherwise fairly normal smoke discharger for tanks, but you could fire high explosive grenades through its muzzle with a flare gun, to defend against infantry assaults
- Radio beam guidance system - WW2 - Germany
- A system adapted from airport landing systems to accurately guide bombers to their targets
- Soviet Dog Mines - WW2 - Soviet Union
- A (failed) attempt to use dogs as suicide bombers
- ASBM - Cold war - USA
- A modified ICBM launched from aircraft
- Goliath - WW2 - Germany
- A remote-controlled vehicle designed to destroy bunkers and fortifications by exploding near them or inside
- DSRV - Modern - USA
- A submarine designed to rescue the crew of destroyed submarines (although this is practically impossible)
- Maus - WW2 - Germany
- A ridiculously large and heavy tank built very late in the war
To node
Here's a list of some bizarre equipment waiting to be noded.
- PIAT - WW2 - United Kingdom
- A spring-powered anti-tank weapon (not a rocket)