Dr. Strangelove....

[zeitghost]

Actually rather more insane than that...

http://www.merkle.com/pluto/pluto.html

[zeitghost]

But of course the British have a really off the wall approach to things...

The chicken power bomb...

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/21.htm

[TheMonkey]

More German comedy war inventions:

http://www.somethingawful.com/booklist/

[Lucifer Box]

Anyone remember this little gem of a DOS game?

[Lucifer Box]

Check today's date.

[MrsGoof]

More German comedy war inventions:

http://www.somethingawful.com/booklist/

The Project C - A huge flying aircraft carrier laden with a half-dozen jet-powered German suicide bombs.

reminds me of the jap manned torpedo, that was actually developed and used.

[DaveB]

More German comedy war inventions:

http://www.somethingawful.com/booklist/

reminds me of the jap manned torpedo, that was actually developed and used.

The Aircraft Carrier made of ice was a British idea. Bloke named Pyke came up with a material called Pykrete by mixing woodpulp and water and freezing it. Immensely strong, naturally boyant, virtually indestructable by conventional means and highly resistant to melting.

"In the summer, a model was built on Patricia Lake, Jaspar in Canada. It became essential that the Americans were brought into the project as they would be needed to supply large quantities of steel for the vessel. Costs were already spiralling due to technical and supply problems. Mountbatten took a block of Pykecrete to Quebec to demonstrate the idea to the Americans. He intended to show them the strength of Pykecrete as opposed to ice. He fired a revolver into a block of ice which, predictably, shattered. He then fired into a block of Pykecrete. The bullet did not penetrate the block, rather it ricocheted off the ice, and unfortunately struck the American Chief of Naval Operations in the process, but without injury. "