4 ms·
This is kind of a fun exercise in hindsight but for a successful WW2 project that was pretty high tech for the time and successfully deployed - the proximity fu
by stevenwoo 2y ago
This is kind of a fun exercise in hindsight but for a successful WW2 project that was pretty high tech for the time and successfully deployed - the proximity fuze is pretty hard to beat, the basic physics is simple enough for most people to grasp it but this problem stumped the Nazis and the Japanese only figured out a solution too late in the war to deploy.
- OliveMate 2y agoReally with a lack of resources (and the relative safety & time available), off the wall thinking became the standard for British researchers throughout the war – to the point where it practically became policy. Not all of it worked, but considering the challenges faced it's amazing how novel some of the solutions were. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Miscellaneous_Weapons_Development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Miscellaneous_We... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncing_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncing_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_rat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_rat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjandrum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjandrum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart%27s_Funnies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart%27s_Funnies
- stevenwoo 2y agoI was watching a fictionalized version of British SAS origins called SAS Rogue Heroes and they had this in it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_bomb and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewes_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewes_bomb