A Terrifying Weapon in WWI: Metal Darts Dropped From Planes
Aerial darts got a fair amount of use before the widespread adoption of bombs.
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Aerial darts got a fair amount of use before the widespread adoption of bombs.
#shorts #ww1 #militaryhistory #military #war
As someone who works in metal fabrication this is terrifying. I’ve accidentally shot parts across the shop with the wheel grinder and they could easily smash skulls, shatter teeth, impale, etc. I couldn’t imagine these falling from the sky with an aerodynamic design. 💀
@Shawn Nichol I operate a sheet metal plasma cutter. I could get them started for you. You clearly have the right tool for the job though. 👍 Let’s get a little prop plane boys! (Just kidding don’t ban me.)
@Shawn Nichol now all you need is a Cessna and a lack of conscience, and then you can recreate it!
@DeusVult and let’s take over the world, we’ll start with the UK.
@Shawn Nichol me too. Clearly we need to find us a pilot
WITH MY LATHE AND MILL I COULD WHIP 100 OF THEM UP IN A DAY! 😐
Really an RFG is just one of these but upscaled a lot.
Humans are pretty good at throwing rocks.
Does RFG stand for Rod From God? I remember the idea of those tungsten rods in low orbit which would do a lot of damage if shot down to Earth, I just can’t remember if that is their exact name.
Battlefield 1 had these and fuuuuck man i took shrooms once and just imagined every death that happened to me mirroring a real death, no matter how hard i tried to stay alive while also fighting and surviving i just kept dying the most brutal deaths. Planes dropping HOT darts on group’s of us. MG teams camping a huge open field mowing 15 men down in seconds, tanks busting through thick sand storm and crushing dozens in the chaos of artillery landing a couple feet away throwing sand in your face while you watch silhouettes of dozens of men fighting in the storm hand to hand or trying to pop off shots w a pistol only to get hacked by some club w nails in it.
I cried alot in that experience and thank those who served and gave their lives for hopefully a better future. Drugs are wild yo.
@DOUBLXHELIX
I farted on my friend once while we were on shrooms. He actually went up my but following the fart and came out covered in butt chocolate. He let me taste the butt chocolate after he returned from azz land and it tasted… i shit you not…. LIKE DOODOO!!!! I was like man where did you get that chocolate star fish?! And my friend was like what chocolate starfish?! AND I LOOKED AT HIS CHOCOLATE STARFISH AND SAID LEMME GET A LICK!!!! It was crazy. Whenever my friend sees ice cream now he licks his lips and looks at my chocolate starfish and says wanna do some shrooms?!
Bro I could barely play golf with your friends on shrooms I can’t imagine bf1
You should watch They Shall Not Grow Old, it’s fucking tragic
It’s almost the same idea as archers during the medieval times. You just have the luxury of more range and less manpower.
I’ve always thought it would be interesting to bomb an enemy with thousands of hot lava lamps. This seems more effective.
I think that is called Napalm.
Everyone’s talking about 2nd WW but 1st WW weapons are quite inventive and interesting. 👍
Also horrific and cruel lol
The effectiveness of a weapon isnt measured merely in the number of bodies it drops.
A fact that I didn’t know.. but I thought of about a strafing run with 3 ft., finned rods, over main supply corridors. While we were in Vietnam.
They banned lawn darts for a reason. These are heavier, deadlier lawn darts dispersed TO KILL and destroy, not thrown for fun
Germans: copy darts from French
Allies for the next 100 years: let’s copy the germans
@Robert Clark they tried, Hitler and Göring still stocked to it for the duration of the war I believe, and I was still used in the military for most of the war. There was regulations of some sort in 1940-41 I think that limited civilian use but that’s about it.
@Maguu kenki the germans were much more heavy in performance enhancing drug use on soldiers
@Nate Smith didnt every country in ww2 use meth? Its not just the germans lmao
@Nate Smith Well the Germans curved meth use after 1940.
Like taking meth the whole war