The Shinden!!!
Napkinwaffe (all the world's most ridiculous[ly amazing] never-built airplanes)
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The Shinden!!!
I think this calls for a separate Napkinwaffe thread.
PsihoKekec
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Given the state of Japanes metallurgy back then, the mass produced version of the jet engine would have even worse life span than Jumo 004.
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A rocket might have longer range because the 10 minutes of fuel would be longer than the service life of the jet...
gral
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Eh, the piston-engine Shinden flew before the surrender of Japan. The jet-powered one fits the description, though.
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Let's celebrate that brief time in the 90s when MDD, ignoring the fact it would soon cease to exist (but also execute a textbook management Pacman defense against Boeing after the merger, leading to most of Boeing's modern problems), decided that it could certainly beat both Boeing and Airbus and get a blended wing body 1,000-passenger mega-airliner into the skies...
Navarro
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Does this include land vehicles? If so ...
The P. 1000 Ratte, which surely needs no introduction. Surpassing it in insanity, the Germans even designed a larger P.1500 Monster SPG, and a much larger superheavy tank, the P. 2000 Gott, which was up to three times the size.
These creations of megalomania thankfully wasted Nazi Germany's time and energy, causing their defeat that much sooner.
The P. 1000 Ratte, which surely needs no introduction. Surpassing it in insanity, the Germans even designed a larger P.1500 Monster SPG, and a much larger superheavy tank, the P. 2000 Gott, which was up to three times the size.
These creations of megalomania thankfully wasted Nazi Germany's time and energy, causing their defeat that much sooner.
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I hadn’t intended it, but we could always create a thread for absurd military hardware too. Be bold about creating threads!
Francis Urquhart
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There's a webpage that has details of some proposed Japanese aircraft that were under development at the end of WW2. Hikoki:1946, I don't think the Japanese projects were as completely nuts as the German ones though.
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Indeed, I have always felt that Japan had a more sensible engineering culture in WW2 than Germany did.
...how have we gone this long without mentioning the Lockheed CL-1201?
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We make fun of this, but the Russians killed some people a few months ago testing the unmanned equivalent...
PsihoKekec
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The way I hear it, it was a RTG (partially) powered nuclear torpedo. The theory behind it is that submarine could fire it off the coast of Kamchatka at the Puget Sound or Los Angeles, or simply drop it off in the sea and have it start attack months later.
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PsihoKekec
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Nobody can be certain what it was, because Russia won't release information and both weapons are in development.
Francis Urquhart
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According to information obtained by "National Technical Assets", it was the cruise missile. not the torpedo. Something like this, we really don't need the Russians to release information, we can get it for ourselves. In this case, I would ***guess*** the "asset" in question was a recon bird or drone flying off the coast. There's nothing special about that, it's almost boringly routine. Unless one gets shot down of course, then it becomes rather exciting.
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I suppose that is different, but at first blush the difference is small. Windscale still boggles the mind, though.
I suppose that is different, but at first blush the difference is small. Windscale still boggles the mind, though.
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I don't know what this is, but it's certainly unusual
