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The World’s Most Bizarre Weapons
If you were trying to kill a lot of people (or maybe sneakily kill just one person), you could go with the predictable choices: guns, tanks, poison, and swords.
Or, you could get creative.
For as long as nations have existed, it seems that governments have been working to figure out the craziest ways to end people’s lives. From cat robots to poisonous umbrellas, here are 21 of history’s most out-there weapons:
Vespa 150 TAP
This Vespa scooter was modified for French paratroops in 1956. Though the rifle was meant to be removed from the scooter to aim and fire, it could also be fired while the scooter was moving.
Bat Bomb
The United States developed the bat bomb as an experiment during World War II.
The giant case was filled with more than 1,000 compartments each containing a Mexican free-tailed bat attached to small bombs.
The idea was that the bomb would be dropped with a parachute, the bats would be deployed, they would roost in attics, their bombs would go off, and fires would be started in Japanese cities.
Operation Acoustic Kitty
During the Cold War, the CIA came up with a plan to stick microphones in cats' ears and radio transmitters' in their cat skulls in order to spy on the Russians.
"For its first official test, CIA staffers drove Acoustic Kitty to the park and tasked it with capturing the conversation of two men sitting on a bench," a redacted government memo read. "Instead, the cat wandered into the street, where it was promptly squashed by a taxi."
"Who Me" Stink Bomb
Who Me was a sulfur stink bomb that the US created during WWII. It smelled like poop and was meant to be used to humiliate and demoralize German troops.
The plan failed since the soldier who did the spraying often ended up smelling as badly as the sprayee.
Kiss of Death
The Kiss of Death was a lipstick gun created by the Russians during the Cold War. It could shoot one bullet from a tube of lipstick.
The Paris Gun
The Paris Gun was used by Germans against the French during World War I. Though the giant gun's shells were the first human-made objects to reach the stratosphere, it had terrible aim and was mostly used as a "psychological weapon."
And as always have a chilled day from the Viking
The Vespa 150 was the scooter of choice for many Mods during the mid 60’s. If you never had a Vespa, you had a Lambretta. In the early 60’s the Vespa was a quicker bike from a standing start. The only drawback that I experienced, borrowing a friends Vespa, was that the engine was mounted on the side of the centre frame, which made it prone over steering on a bend, and in the wet. The Lambretta on the other hand had the engine centrally mounted within the frame. The newer generation Lambrettas such as the SX200 far out stripped the Vespa. People have been restoring both brands for some time now, selling for between £5-£10,000.
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