Weapons that were ahead of their time.
However, the lack of resources and time, as well as the defeat of the Third Reich in the war led to the fact that many developments remained on paper or were issued in a single copy.
After the war, the allies army arranged a real hunt behind the secrets of the Third Reich, as a result, many German developments have formed the appearance of modern armies.
Stealth Bombarder
Ten years and 500,000 ReichCmarks allocated by maning personally, it took to create a Horten HO 229 fighter-bomber.
The brainchild of the Rayimara and Walter Hortherov brothers was built according to the "Airplane-Wing" scheme and did not have the fuselage as such. The thickness of the centerlane was sufficient to accommodate the pilot and the engine in it.
Turboactive Horten Ho 229 was, no doubt by the airplane of the future: on flight characteristics, he was superior all the aircraft allies. Aircraft It could accelerate up to 970 km / h, its maximum speedwall - 1.320 m / min, and the practical ceiling - 16 km (for most allies aircraft, this figure was then 5-6 km).
If you compare the appearance of the modern American barbecker B-2 Spirit and HO 229, it is impossible not to catch similarities. By the way, as a trophy, a unique German aircraft got exactly Americans who captured the plant in Friedrichsch, where the German Stelc was produced.
Corrected bombs and aviation rockets
The high-precision weapon in the 21st century is perceived as a given, but for the period of the Second World War it was new, secret weapons. Corrected bombs I. controlled rockets The Germans created as "Weapons of Retribution" (V-Waffen) and laid great hopes on it.
FX-1400 or "Fritz-X" - a German bomb, capable of piercing any cruiser of the time of VMV and even the battleship. It was her hitting that was fatal for the Italian Linkar "Roma".
FX-1400. Photo: wikimedia.org. Generally "Fritz-X" became the first worldworm military history A sample of high-precision controlled ammunition adopted and serially produced. And it was the first sample of high-precision weapons, sinking the ship.
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Radio-controlled missile shell of the Earth-air class HS-117 "Smetterling" became a late response to massive raids of American aviation to German cities.
The preliminary development of HS-117 was completed back in 1941, but the innovative weapon was rejected by the Aviation Reichsystems - in those years, the Nazis believed that Luftwaffe could cope with any threat.
The Germans were quite late, the first prototype for mass production was ready only in 1945, and there were no resources for its production.
With German developments, the Americans were familiar with whom HS-117 went as a trophy. Today, Smetterling can be seen at the National Museum of Aviation and Astronautics of the United States, and managed land-air rockets are practically in any army of the world.
Intercontinental ballistic rockets
In many ways, the American missile program was held thanks to the Verneur of Brown Background and his fau-2 rocket. The German rocket was a real breakthrough in rocket building, especially its guidance system, which was not required to constantly target the land.
Photo: BBCI.CO.UK. The coordinates of the target were introduced into the onboard analog calculator immediately before launch, then gyroscopes installed on the rocket controlling its spatial position during the entire flight.
If the rocket has deviated from the trajectory, then its position was corrected by steering on side stabilizers. A powerful engine operating on ethanol and liquid oxygen allowed Fow-2 to overcome a distance of 190 km at a cruising flight altitude of 80 km.
American SM-65 "Atlas" The world's first intercontinental ballistic missile. Photo: wikimedia.org. The Americans managed to capture all the documentation and Verner vinera von Brown, who subsequently helped them with the development of the first intercontinental missiles capable of carrying a nuclear charge.
Tank night sights
Today there are night vision devices on every tank, but during the time the second world first bulky IR spotlights were a real know-how.
The Germans at the end of the war successfully used the tactics of night attacks, in particular, the tank units of the SS, despite the significant superiority of the Soviet troops in military equipment, held a successful counterattack on Lake Balaton in March 1945, where on the very first day of the batt managed to move by 60 km .
Pz.kpfw. V "Panther" ausf.g with a night vision unit "Sperber" installed on the commander turret (Sperber FG 1250). Photo: STD3.ru. The night sight was installed on the Commander Tower Tank of the German PZKPFW V "Panther" (the Germans had about 60 "Night" tanks approximately 60). The device called Sperber FG 1250 allowed to see to a range of up to 200 m.
Of course, it was not enough, therefore, for the illumination of the goal of the Germans, semi-megazine armored personnel carriers SD.KFZ were used. 251/20 (InfraScheinWerfer), equipped with an UHU infrared searchlight ("Owl") with a capacity of 6 kW.
SD.KFZ. 251/20. Photo: kfzderwehrmacht.de. Such a backlight helped to see at night "Panther" crews for a distance of up to 1 km.
In addition, there was another version of the equipment tank, called BIWA. In this case, the tank was obtained by 3 sets of night vision devices (for the commander, gunner and driver): 300 mm millimeter infrared search lights, as well as image converters.
PZKPFW V "PANTHER" with such devices entered the ClauseWitz division in April 1945. In the area of \u200b\u200bthe city of Uelzen, the platoon of the English cruising Comet tanks was destroyed.
Project Overview super weapons Third Reich. Both insane and fantastic and real, almost implemented.
From lasers, super tanks and sound cannons, to the Nazi orbital station with a sewing city with a sunny mirror.
Secret weapon of the Third Reich
In this post, I propose to familiarize yourself with the samples of weapons of the Third Reich, as well as with projects of such weapons. Look at how many sophisticated the thought of fascist scientists and engineers in the invention of new ways of destroying and enslaving humanity.
I think that if at least something of the above, the fascists managed to refine and put on the flow, the course of history would have walked in a completely different direction. And, perhaps, we would not sit in front of the computer now, but stood at the machine on some Nazi factory as a free workforce, giving all my life without a balance in the name of the prosperity of the Great German Empire!
Over-heavy tanks
In June 1942, Hitler for consideration brought secret projects with super-grave tanks "P1000 Ratte" and "P1500 MONSTER". These were real mobile fortress weighing 1000 and 1500 tons. The usual tank "Tiger", for comparison, had a weight of only 60 tons.
P1000 Ratte.
Tank project for the fascist army P1000 Ratte ("Rat"). Weight - 1000 tons. Dimensions: 35 x 14 m, height: 11 m. The crew is a whole platoon of twenty people. The movement should have been given by two 24-cylinder engines from the submarine for 8400 horsepower each. Speed \u200b\u200bon an equal terrain - up to 40 km / h.
Armament: Two main tools - ship guns 280 mm caliber, rear - tower with a 126-mm gun, 6 anti-aircraft guns to protect against air attacks, plus several anti-personnel machine guns.
P1500 Monster.
Another project is 1500 ton monster 42 meters long. One and a half times massive "Rats". The crew is more than a hundred people. In fact, this is self-propelled artillery installation (SAU) with the main instrument of a caliber of 807 mm, shooting 7-ton shells. Shells were to be brought in trucks and served "on board" lifting cranes. More from weapons: two 150 mm of warmness, and of course a lot of a lot of machine guns.
The world's greatest self-propelled artillery installation - "Dora". Shot range - 39 km.
Both of these projects were rejected in detail, since with all their threatening appearance, such huge cars would be ineffective due to their low mobility (especially in the crossed terrain), and are too vulnerable to air and anti-tank mines. In addition, the finalization of projects, the test of prototypes and the layout of serial production would take much time and means, and would be very burded by the German defense industry.
Although these tank projects were not implemented, however, 807-mm gun developed for the P1500 Monster tank was actually created in the number of two copies and was used in combat operations.
Ultra-voluminous gun V3.
"Sorry-skinned" is an ultra-voluminous gun V3. One of the projects of "VergelTungSwaffe") V3 is a gun under the code name "High Pressure Pump". A very unusual artillery tool in its principle is a shell released into the trunk of guns, as the serial series of explosions accelerated in the side of the side cameras accepted in the trunk. The total length of the barrel was 140 meters, the side cameras were several dozen. For your own appearance Such an instrument received the nickname "Sorry-shirt".
Testing the prototype of this gun by a 20-mm caliber, held in May 1943, was successful. Then Hitler, in order not to bomb London, ordered the battery from five "forty-glass" by a 150-mm caliber on the shore of the La Mans, from where London was "total" 165 km.
The construction was carried out under constant Bear Aviation. In parallel, the design of the design of the guns and shells was carried out - on the tests of the links "Sorry-glasses" periodically broke, it was not possible to achieve the desired initial speed of shells (1500 m / s) because of which they did not want to fly further 90-93 km.
By the summer of 1944, the fascists almost managed to complete the construction of a single super-gun, the rest of the platforms were completely crushed by aviation. However, on July 6, the end and this "Sorry-Troop" was laid - one brave British pilot was able to throw a bomb directly to the main bunker. The bomb exploded inside the bunker, all the staff died, it was no longer possible to restore this tool complex.
Sound gun
In the depths of the Hitler Military Machine, there were studies of various ways to kill a person. One way to harm human is to affect it a strong low frequency sound (infrasound). The first experiments were carried out of course on prisoners - under infrasound they fell into panic, they had dizziness, pain in the internal organs, diarrhea.
This effect of the fascists tried to embody in the acoustic cannon. However, the damned infrazness persistently did not want to spread the beam in a given direction, because of which all his impact was experiencing on himself first of all, the staff of the sound cannon - they themselves began to be attacks and sharp diarrhea.
Nowadays, each schoolboy knows that low-frequency sound waves cannot be sent to the beam, a certain semblance of an orientation can only be given the sound of very high frequency (ultrasound), but unfortunately (or fortunately) does not have such negative exposure On our body.
German engineer Richard Valayushki, who invented this species Weapons apparently knew himself about it and stubbornly continued to improve his invention. But, as they say, "persistence and work will be perfect" - in January 1945, that is, at the end of the war, he presented his Hell car to the "Commission on Research and Development". After testing the device, the members of the Commission said reasonably that the usual machine gun acts much more efficient, and it is cheaper. As a result, the sound gun somehow did not fit in the German army and did not become a formidable "weapon of retaliation" of the Wehrmacht.
At the end of the war, a prototype of this acoustic weapon was in the hands of Americans. In secret documents of those times it is said that ".. Caught sample of an acoustic cannon publishes such a loud sound that people are closer than 50 meters from the source lose consciousness, and a fatal outcome is possible on a closer distance .." Americans thoroughly examined all the captured samples of the secret weapons of the fascists, but as for the sound gun, they also recognized that a simple machine gun shoots further than 50 meters, and in general, to treat him easier, although he does not have such a formidable mental effect.
Artificial tornado and vortex gun
Installation for the production of artificial tornado for the destruction of opponent aircraft.
The actually worked device, however, the tornado was obtained with a height of only 300 meters, which is clearly not enough to effectively destroy aircraft, as they can fly much higher. On trials, this device has successfully created tornadoes, which spread wooden sheds within a radius of 100-150 meters from the aggregate.
The principle of creating artificial tornadows:
- a large pipe is filled with flammable gas;
- from her, gas is sent to the combustion chamber, there is also a turbine, which spins burning gas;
- then, through the nozzle, the split rotating gas is produced into the atmosphere;
- the atmospheric air is drawn into the rotation process and the artificial tornado is obtained.
Such a type of weapon also did not fit in the Nazi army, as a little dead, it was really possible to knock down only the aircraft flying at a small height, and even then with difficulty. But the very idea - taught!
The principle of action is similar, only this gun shoots small, but very powerful portions of rapidly rotating gas. Such "mini-vortices" for quite a long time retain stability, energy and direction of their movement.
But, again, the effectiveness of such "gas shells" is small. Their energy quickly loosens with an increase in distance, the speed of movement is an order of magnitude below the bullet speed, the accuracy of the shots is as very low, especially with strong wind.
With such a vortex cannon, we can well have breaking plywood houses and even small brick walls as in the video below. But more damage to the aircraft quickly flying more damage from an ordinary shotgun.
We continue the review of the Secret Projects of the Weapon of the Third Reich ..
Underground boat - "Suterrine"
The draft of a real underground cruiser called "Snake Midgard", which remained a project. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe German engineer of the Ritter, the author of the project, was so ..
The train capable of moving under water, on the ground, and under the ground. The main purpose is to detect and destroy the secret underground bunkers The enemy, lay mines under fortification structures, land a landing in the rear of the enemy.
The length of the wagon of such an underground train was 7 meters, the number of cars varied depending on the task and could be several dozen. The project assumed the presence of a hiking kitchen (something like a restaurant car), periscopes, radio stations, repair shops, bedrooms for staff. The air was supposed to be stored in cylinders in a compressed form. Of course, a large number of weapons and mines. The estimated speed of the movement of this "subterry" through the soft ground was 10 km / h (!!!), through solid rocks - 2 km / h, on the ground - 30 km / h.
The project dates back to 1934 in 1935, he was reviewed by German military specialists who made a number of critical comments. Their resolution was as follows: "The absence of a sufficient number of calculated data." It seems that the ritter sucked his idea from his finger without bothering himself serious scientific calculations.
But another German engineer, Verner von, calculated more and more accurately. Accordingly, his project of an underground boat looks more modest, but at least remotely realistic.
"Sea Lion" - subterranean waterboat engineer background Verner
Engineer Horner von Verner patented his project called Sea Lion back in 1933. His "Suterrine" should have been moving at first under water imperceptibly reaching enemy shores, and then drumming already under the ground, laying off bombs under the military objects of the enemy or plant saboteurs.
10 years, this project was dust in the archive. However, with the arrival of war, the fascists began to consider all the interesting ideas of the new weapons. So it reached the "sea lion".
Specifications: Length - 25 m, crew - 5 people. + 10 people. Assant, speed under Earth - 7 km / h, a warhead - 300 kg of explosives.
In 1943, Hitler was proposed to use "Nautical Lviv" to penetrate the British territory. But the German military industry has already worked at the limit of its capabilities and the development of another super-weapon simply would simply be pulled. Therefore, Hitler has made a choice in favor of improving and using the Fau ballistic missiles that have already existed at that time, with the help of which, as is well known, he managed to damage London and some other British cities.
And what about "sea lion"? Is it really not a single real underground boat in the world? Is such a beautiful idea, originally described by Jules Verne in his fantastic novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth", and remained fantastic or an unfulfilled secret project of Hitler?
After the war, the relay picked up already Soviet UnionIn addition to other trophies, the drawings of the "Marine Lion" got the drawings, on the basis of which the Soviet engineer Krevev designed the subdirection.
This subdirection was really created and tested somewhere in the Urals in the postwar years. But this no longer belongs to the secret weapons of the fascists, so his description goes beyond the scope of this post. I will give only photos from Wikipedia.
As for the weapons of the fascists, after consideration of a number of ridiculous and fantastic projects, I suggest awarding at least one successful - Fau missiles.
Rocket "Fau" - "Hitler's Return Weapon"
Fau - German name of the letter "V", first letter "VergeeltungSwaffe" - "Weapon of Retribution." Chief designer - Father of the German Rocket Industry Werner von Brown.
The most successful missile developments of the Nazis were the "FAu-1" and "Fow-2" missiles, which were used mainly to strike in London.
Winged Rocket Fau-1
Winged rocket, or a drone aircraft-shell.
Length - 8.32 m, the maximum speed is up to 800 km / h, the maximum flight height is 2700 m, the weight is 2150 kg, the range is 270 km. The 45-meter catapult or a bomber was launched.
The first combat use of FAu-1 took place on June 13, 1944, when 15 such missiles were launched on London. In total, Almost 10,000 FAu-1 was released in England, of which the target was only 2500 - about 4-5 thousand were shot down by British air defense, 2000 or more fell into the sea due to the engine failure.
Since the targeting on the target FAu-1 was very approximate, was developed, but it was not used a manned version of this winged rocket (with a small cap for the pilot in front of the engine). After starting from the bombarder, the pilot was supposed to send a rocket, for example, to jumped with parachute at the last moment ..
Or not jump out - 200 pilots-kamikadze was prepared for the destruction of British military facilities, but from had to be used with airplanes, since Fow-1 by that time had already stopped producing.
Launch of the Rocket Fau-2.Ballistic missile "FAu-2"
Height - 14 m, weight together with fuel - 13.5 tons, maximum flight height - 188 km (!!!), speed - 6100 km / h, range - 360 km.
188 km The height of the flight is not a typo. Although at the launch of FAu-2 to London, they reached the height of about 80 km, 188 km is a record height achieved during testing.
That is, FAu-2 rocket is officially the first in the history of the man-made object, all post-war rocket and space developments of the United States have gone from her, since the unemployed after the death of Hitler Professor Von Brown Americans attached to NASA.
Fow-2 launched from a stationary or mobile starting platform. 9 tons of 13 of its starting mass was fuel (liquid oxygen and ethyl alcohol), which fused during the first minute of flight, raising the rocket to a height of 80 km and informing her speed of 1700 m / s. Further Rocket flew by inertia, which was enough for more than 300 km.
On September 8, 1944, the first fighting start of FAu-2 was held, the goal is London. Such a quick rocket British air defense facilities could not intercept. By the way, with Fow-1, they spread out pretty easily - the English pilots-assa could take care of the winged rocket at the same speed, and approaching its wing with its wing, tilting the mini-airline into the sea.
With Fow-2, such a focus, obviously, would not have passed. But the FAu-2 themselves exploded to rarity together - from more than 4,000 launched FAU-2 almost half self-levels (exploded at the start or already in flight).
This kind of "Weapon of Retribution" Hitler was very inffective. The accuracy of the goal of these missiles was plus-minus 10 km, Start 2000 Fow-2 from September 44th to March of the 45th led to the death of "total" 2700 people, that is, one huge 13-ton ballistic missile killed one Friend man. Agree, very irrational, especially since one Fow-2 cost as a hundred FAu-1. So this weapon played more psychological than a practical role in World War II, scaring the poor Londoners and destroying them at home.
But the next secret project of the arms of the Nazis, which will be discussed, if it was embodied, would put the Hitler for one level with God and the USSR, with the allies, there would be no chance to be left.
Space station of fascist Germany. Adolf Hitler
This idea is more like the ideas of villains from modern comic films than the real project. But leadership fascist Germany Discussed her quite seriously. Of course it was clear that this is a very expensive program, therefore 50 years was assigned to its implementation. Naturally, it was assumed that Germany would win in World War II and then a powerful argument would be needed to keep the whole world in fear.
What could be worse than the punishing fiery ray of amazing reclamation directly from heaven?!
That was the plan - to build a space orbital station with a huge mirror of 3 square meters. km reflecting the sunlight to the point on the ground surface. According to the calculations of the energy of such a beam, it would be enough even to melting armored vehicles on a given site!
All this, of course, looks like fiction, but the Nazi Germany has all the prerequisites for the rapid development of the space industry in the following years. The fact of the release into the outer space of FAu-2 missiles really took place. There is even an unproved assumption that the first astronaut was not Yuri Gagarin, but a German tester pilot, which made a subborital cosmic flight on Fow-10 rocket (the truth died at the same time).
That is, if the Germans won the war, it would be enough for several decades to develop missile carriers capable of bringing goods into the orbit of the Earth and the creation of an orbital station. As for the huge mirror, sending fatal solar bunnies to Earth - it's hard to judge for how much this project is real. One thing can be said for sure - if not megazerkalo, then something is no less fatal they would definitely come up with. Perhaps it would be a powerful laser or any other "hyperboloid engineer Garina", but the recalcitrant power of the Fuhrer would definitely not have repeatedly!
Naturally, this project remained under the idea stage. Now, if you look at it from the height of the technical level of modern civilization, it seems naive on the one hand, but on the other, the thought is becoming: "What still crazy sukin son was this Hitler and his colleagues! Submit them, you see world domination! "
But it could happen and happen! ..
Home Hitler's mistake
Throughout the war, Hitler was looking for a single and mighty super-weapon - "Weapon of Retribution", which would put all the points over "I" in World War II. All samples described in this post are failed attempts Create it. As can be seen, in their search, the fascists went over many options, was among them and one more, discarded as non-prospective - nuclear weapon.
It is the German physicist Otto Gan opened in 1939 division atomic nucleuswhich highlights huge energy. After this discovery began to develop nuclear weapons not only in Germany, but also in America and in the Soviet Union. The development of an atomic bomb in Germany is a separate big topic, here I only say that Hitler did not see prospects in this direction, and perhaps it was his main strategic miscalculation.
He more liked the idea of \u200b\u200bballistic missiles, for the development of which he sent all the forces of the military industry. Works on the creation of an atomic bomb were funded weakly, and at the end of the war, although there were already some success, they were completely discontinued.
And in conclusion, I present to you ..
The worst weapon of fascists
This rifle allowed the soldiers of the Wehrmacht shooting without having shook out of the trench, and even from behind the corner not looking! What a brilliant idea !!! They could hit the enemy, while remaining safe!
For some reason, such a rifle did not get much spread, possibly due to the same notorious short-sightedness of Hitler.
The logical development of this design could be the following:
It is a pity that German engineers did not think of this. If such a gun was given to each German soldier, the war would be much earlier ..
Want to make a photo wallpaper with one of these insane Japanese creations, go to the photo wallpaper in Moscow and order, while there is time and money before the new year.As a rule, the most innovative and conceptual guns of the Second World War are considered to be Western powers, or rather Germany. But when it comes to excess of experimental and excess of unusual military technologies, Japan, as always, ahead of the rest of the planet. The following technologies are listed below that the Japanese tried to implement during World War II.
In 1905, after a humiliating lesion, Japan turned into a global power. Starting from the 1930s and after joining the union with Nazi Germany, the empire began a series of conquering campaigns to asserted in the Pacific region. Ultimately, these actions led to a conflict with the United States.
Japan, knowing that her opponents went far ahead in the development of military technologies, intensified their efforts to keep up with them. Given the fact that Japan was one of the main allies of Germany, she managed to do seven-mile steps. As a result, the Japanese imperial army, to the beginning of the Second World War, was equipped as ordinary modern weaponand special weapons for carrying out terrorist attacks, and even weapons for conducting a chemical and biological war. The Japanese military did not really worry the Geneva Convention, because the prohibited weapons, as they believed, was the most effective.
The Japanese during the war have developed dozens, if not hundreds, over conceptual types of weapons, including these 11 species that need to know.
1. Air bises fu go
While the Nazis were tested on London Rocket V2, the Japanese created their own "weapons of revenge." Military designers who have not yet owned technologies to create intercontinental missiles, came to the idea of \u200b\u200bair bombs.
To bring it into action, the Japanese attached incendiary bombs to balloons, which under the influence of air flows were to fly towards the United States and explode in the forests of the American North-West, which would lead to the largest forest fires, which, in turn, led It would be for the withdrawal of workforce from defense enterprises.
According to the preserved data, balloons, Potato flour and filled with pure hydrogen, were made of paper made of a tute tree. They were 10 meters in diameter and could raise the load with a mass of about halftone, but a 15-kilogram anti-empty fragment bomb was a deadly part of their cargo, attached to a 20-meter fuse, which was intended for burning within 82 minutes until the explosion. The Japanese created balloons with such a calculation so that they themselves allocate hydrogen, when approaching the height of more than 10 kilometers, and threw a pair of sand-filled ballast bags, at a height of about 8,000 kilometers using a built-in altimeter. Three tens of ballast bags hung on a 4-spoke aluminum wheel, which was in a balloon, along with a bomb. Each ballast bag weighed from 1 to 2.5 kilograms. Bags were "programmed" to be discharged by couples and were on opposite sides Bowl. Free from hydrogen, at an altitude of 10,000 meters, the ball decreased to 8,000, where the altimeter was triggered and the two ballast bags rushed down, forcing the ball to recruit height again. Also, the Japanese took into account that every day in the day heat the balloons rose, and each evening went down until all ballast bags were getting rid of all ballast bags. From this point on, the ball had the only direction of flight - down.
The first balloons were launched at the end of 1944, and landed on November 5 in the USA in San Pedro, California. The next day, they landed on, in Wyoming. Some landed in Canada. And in general, about 285 balls reached the banks of the United States. On March 5, 1945, six Americans (officials and five children) were killed in Oregon one of such balls when they tried to carry it through the forest into their camp camp.
The US government banned the media to report anything about these balloons, inspire the enemy in fear, but after the end of the war, all the information became public.
2. Sen Toku class "Megasubmarin"
During the war, the Japanese managed to build three giant vessels, which, in their own kind, are record holders, they can be considered the largest ever-built mechanized submarines. As part of the Japanese domination plan in the Pacific Ocean, including on the West Coast of the United States, the task of these ships was to attack the Panaman Canal.
The boats were equipped with three AICHI M6A1 aircraft, which were able to carry torpedoes or bombs weighing up to 800 kilograms. The aircraft themselves were placed in waterproof, in a resistant to the water pressure of the hangar. The aircraft themselves were launched from the catapult located in the front of the tower, and all three could be collected, armed and run for 45 minutes after the float.
It is also worth noting that this underwater mobile hangar for aircraft was covered with a thick, rubber-like substance that was intended to absorb radio and hydrolycaria signals. However, the war ended before the Japanese applied them to battle. In 1946, one I-400 entered into battle with the US Navy, but the forces were unequal. He was knocked up and he sank off the shores of the Hawaiian Islands.
3. Detachment 731 and the use of biological weapons
From 1937 to the end of the war, the Japanese experimented with various types of biological weapons, including toxic bombs (precursor of American Agent Orange) and bombs for the spread of bubonic plague and fleas. The project is known "Detachment 731", engaged in the creation of bombs with bubonic plague, cholera, smallpox, botulism and other diseases. Japanese soldiers used these bombs as an attacking weapon, infecting fields, reservoirs, wells.
Historians argue that as a result of the use of this weapon, more than 200,000 Chinese died. Also, according to the data available, at the end of the war, the Japanese issued several thousand animals infect with plague to freedom, which led to outbreaks of plague throughout China, as a result of which, only in the Harbel area, at least 3,000,000 people in the period from 1946 1948 year. Some Japanese scientists challenge these figures, but the evidence indicates that it is the Japanese who are guilty of a huge number of victims among the Chinese population.
And, as the historian Anthony Bivor noted, the Japanese also planned to use this weapon against American soldiers at the Pacific Theater of Military Action, delivering the disease to the Americans under the guise of non-planned air bombs. In the summer of 1945, the Japanese planned to use Camicadze pilots to release places over San Diego.
It is worth noting that in the United States the commander of the division of 731 received protection against prosecution in exchange for the disclosure of biological secrets of warfare, actually betraying their soldiers.
4. Fukrew - Kamikazy diving costumes
These special diving costumes were designed for special attacking Japanese units. The costumes were equipped with 15-kilogram mines that turned the diver into a smart mine.
Divers, burdened by 9 kilograms of lead, had to walk under water at a depth of 5-7 meters for whole six hours, patrolling the coastal zone. If the divers seen an enemy ship, they should have come close to the ship's body and click on the detonator button. As you guess, as a result, they died. It is not known how many times this costume was used in battle, but the US military confirm that several Alemer and landing ships of the American infantry were attacked by Kamikadze.
5. Device for encryption "PURPLE"
The German device "Enigma" is probably the most famous device encryption of the Second World War, but it does not significantly mean that it was the only one. In 1937, the Japanese developed "97-Shiki O-Bun In-Ji-Ki" or "97 alphabetical typewriter." This device is more known as the code name "Purple", which was assigned to him by the Americans.
The machine consisted of two typewriters and an electric rotary system with a 25-symbol alphabetic shield. Like the Enigma device, which also inspired the Japanese to create "Purple", ordinary text, or an unencrypted message, was administered manually. But his main innovation was the second electric printed machine, which printed an encrypted message on a sheet of paper. Thus, only one person was needed to work with the device. The key has changed every day, and therefore it was impossible to hack the code. The switch had 25 compounds that could create 6 pairs of links, producing 70.000.000.000.000 Possible options for encoded text.
6. Airplane Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka Kamikaze
What do we know about Japanese pilots? We only know what they flew on Zero aircraft and were Camicadze. With the second, you can agree, because everyone was ready to sacrifice the plane and so to destroy the enemy. Realizing this fact, Japanese engineers have begun to develop an aircraft specifically for this purpose. Yokosuka MXY-7 was a plane with a rocket engine, which debuted in September 1944. For the construction of this apparatus, the Japanese, if possible, used insignificant raw materials, and the design of the aircraft was extremely primitive.
During the battle, Ohka was kept under the fuselage of the Mitsubishi G4M aircraft, and as soon as the goal was within reach, the Kamikadze aircraft separated and rushed to the goal. The pilot of this doomed airplane flew directly to the goal, but he was not a simple bomb with a man inside, he had rockets and a machine gun in order to clean the way to goal.
The plane was the 1200-kilogram bomb, which inevitably carried away the life of his pilot and came around the ship in which she fell into inevitable death. Its huge, at the time, the speed made interception with the help of anti-aircraft guns is almost impossible. But if he flew directly to the anti-aircraft gun, then his death was inevitable. Moreover, it was difficult for aircraft. Despite these problems, at least one American cruiser was sweeping.
7. Mitsubishi J8M1 Airplane (Shushi)
If you think it looks like a German Messerschmitt Me 163 KOMET, then you are absolutely right.
J8M1 was a copy of an advanced German aircraft, but this is not an exact copy. Germans did not have the opportunity to deliver the original aircraft to Japan. The only attempt to ship the plane suffered the collapse when the German submarine with Messerschmitt on board sank along the way to Japan. Therefore, Japanese engineers had to design the attack aircraft manually, in fact, in photographs.
The Japanese needed this plane, because The American B-29 flew at an altitude, inaccessible to most Japanese fighters, so the Japanese version of ME 163 was considered a potential solution to the problem.
July 7, 1945, J8M1 made his first flight. The first flight lasted not long and ended with a disaster. The j8m1 takeoff was successful, but during a steep rise, the engine has occurred, which led to the destruction of the aircraft and the death of the pilot. Another six such prototypes were built, but none of them took off until the end of the war.
Together with them, Mizuno Sunru was built, the interceptor with a rocket engine.
8. O-i super and ultra heavy tanks
Usually, the Japanese do not remember as genius tank-beaders, although there are some notable specimens in history, including TYPE 97 CHI-HA tank. During the war, the Japanese had an ambitious, if not a crazy, the idea of \u200b\u200bbuilding a heavyweight and even super heavy tank.
The heavyweight tank had three towers, one big and two small guns. It is argued that one of these tanks was sent to Manchuria, but it is still unknown whether he has ever been applied in battle.
The test model of the heavyweight O-I, there were four towers.
9. Ray of death KU-GO
Like other warring parties, the Japanese actively worked on the creation of a ray of death - a concentrated energy beam, which could demolish the aircraft to a distance of hundreds of kilometers. According to reports that have fallen into the hands of the US Armed Forces, the development of the Japanese ray of death began in 1939 in Noborito laboratories. Researchers have developed a powerful magnetron that could generate a directional beam.
The Physics team of Sinietiro Tomonag has developed a magnetron with a diameter of 20 centimeters and with a power of 100 kW. However, modern engineers doubt that such a technology could work in the same way as the death ray described in science fiction. Based on the calculations, it is assumed that the rabbit could be killed the rabbit for a distance of 1000 meters, provided that the rabbit is in a fixed state at least for 5 minutes.
10. Flying tanks
One of the main problems faced by the Japanese military during World War II was transported heavy equipment and equipment (for example, tanks) from the island to the island. The potential solution was presented in the form of flying, or rather sliding through the air, tanks.
These light tanks were equipped with removable wings, tail plumage (as on the tail of the aircraft). But because Tank's caterpillars were not able to provide a soft landing, and the pair of removable ski were also attached to the tanks. After separation from the aircraft, for example, the Mitsubishi Ki-21 heavy bombarder, the tank went down to the destination as a glider.
The Japanese managed to produce several prototypes of such flying tanks, including Maeda KU-6 and KU-RO.
11. Superb Breaker Z
As well as Germany, Japan wanted to build a bomber capable of reaching the United States. During the war, the Japanese desperately needed something like American B-29 SuperFortress. In 1941, the imperial army of Japan was presented a test sample of a 13-Shi bomber - an intercontinental heavy bombers with four engines. However, the military needed something much more, or rather in something more severe and fast - something that could fly at an altitude of 10,000 meters with a cargo of twenty-two-450-kilogram bombs.
Work began on the creation of a Japanese intercontinental bomber, who had to save the country. The Japanese army presented two samples of Nakajima G10N Fugaku (in the photo above) and Kawasaki Ki-91, with a wings of 72 meters and a total of 144 meters long. In theory, it was able to develop speed up to 590 km / h and fly at an altitude of 7500 meters and all this thanks to six engines, with a total capacity of 30,000 horsepower. Nakajima's airline has begun to develop engines for this aircraft, and suggested double the number of HA-44 engines (the most powerful of the engines available in Japan). The Z project was closed in July 1944 as a result of the deterioration of the situation on the fronts.
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Amazing Weapons of World War II: Anti-Lant Bomb Glide Bomb
Glide Bomb anti-relocated bomb developed in the USA. It was equipped with an active radar homing system. With the help of this weapon at the end of the war, Americans destroyed several Japanese ships. In the American army, these planning bombs received the nickname "Grapefruit".
The bomb was attached to a small planner, which was attached under the wings of a heavy bombarder B-17.
The idea was to strike on the enemy goals from afar without exposing the dangers themselves bombers.
After the separation from the B-17 "Grapefruit" accelerated to a speed of 250 miles per hour and could flee 20 miles.
Weapons of World War II: bacteriological developments
In the photo: Landsberg, Germany, May 28, 1946. The execution of the 74-year-old bacteriologist of Klaus Karl Schillling. Schilling was convicted of war crimes.
In the concentration camp, Dakhau, he spent experiments over prisoners, infecting them with tropical diseases (more than malaria). Over 1200 prisoners of the concentration camp have become participants in the inhuman experiments. Of which thirty died directly from vaccinations and 400 later from complications. Schilling began his experiments in 1942. Before the war, Dr. Claus Schelling was one of the world's leading experts on tropical diseases. Before retirement, Dr. Shilling worked at the prestigious Institute of Robert Koch in Berlin. In 1942, Henry Himmler asked him to continue his research on the treatment of malaria, because German soldiers began to die from this disease in North Africa. As a medication from malaria shilling used different kinds Drugs. Most of the young Polish priests infected in Dachau were, who Dr. Shilling infected with the help of mosquitoes in the swamps of Italy and in the Crimea. The priests were chosen for experiments, because they did not work as ordinary prisoners in Dakhau.
74-year-old shilling was convicted and hanged. In his last word in court, Dr. Shilling asked the results of his experiments after his death and said that all his experiences were for the benefit of mankind. According to him, he committed a real breakthrough in science.
After the war, Dr. Shilling was arrested, accused of crimes against humanity and hanged.
Weapons of World War II: nuclear weapons
Japan, March 11, 1946. New buildings (right) rise from Ruins Hiroshima. On the left you can see the building foundation of which survived the atomic bombing.
Another test of the US atomic bomb was held on the Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands) on July 25, 1946. The nuclear explosion was under the codenate name "Baker". The atomic bomb of 40 kilotonne was blown up at a depth of 27 meters below the ocean surface of 3.5 miles from the bikini atoll. The purpose of the test was the study of the influence of nuclear explosions on ships and electronics. In the area of \u200b\u200bthe atoll, 73 ships were collected. Both outdated American and captured vessels, including the Japanese Nagato battleship. The participation of the latter in the tests as a target was symbolic. In 1941, Nagato was the flagship of the Japanese fleet. From him was the leadership of the famous Attack of the Japanese on Pearl Harbor. During the explosion "Baker" battletry "Nagato", and so that was in very bad condition got strong damage and 4 days later sank. Currently, the osters of the Nagato line is located at the bottom of the lagoon of the Bikini Atoll. He became a tourist attraction and attracts numerous divers from all over the world.
Amazing Weapons of World War II: Acoustic Devices
One of the gigantic listening of acoustic devices, which were arranged around Berlin and caught even the slightest noise of the aviation engine.
The Bundesarchiv BILD 183-E12007 device for detecting aircraft was developed by German engineers in the years of the First World War. It was a kind of acoustic radar. It consisted of four acoustic transducers: two vertical and two horizontal. All of them were connected by rubber tubes by the type of stethoscope. The sound was displayed on stereo headphones, which used technicians to determine the direction and height of the aircraft.
Analogs of acoustic devices were in service with the Soviet army.
Amazing weapons of World War II: the first computer
In this photo of 1946, the ENIAC image (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) - the first electronic computer general purpose. He was developed and created scientists from the University of Pennsylvania commissioned by the American Laboratory of Ballistics. The main task of this computer was the calculation of the ballistic trajectory flights of shells. ENIAC was secretly launched in 1943.
The device weighed 30 tons. Secrecy with ENIAC was removed only in 1946. It was then that these photos were made. After the project was declassified by ENIAc designers developed the mechanics of the construction of electronic digital computers. This system has become a breakthrough in the development of new computer technology.
Amazing Weapons of World War II: Reactive Aviation
Hyde Park, London, September 14, 1945. The exhibition in London was shown the new, experimental technique captured by the Germans. In particular, here it was possible to see the German jet aircraft Hakel HE-162 (Volksjaeger). Over the fuselage of the aircraft installed turbojet engine VMW-003 "Sturm".
During 1944, Heinkel was intensively engaged in developing jet fighters. Having worked out at least 20 projects of single aircraft with different engines and layout, designers stopped at the most simple solutions. Designed as a turbojet interceptor, HE-162 was built mainly from the tree - to relieve and cheat production. The turbojet unit was installed directly to the fuselage, behind the cockpit of the pilot "on the back" of the aircraft.
After the capitulation of Germany, the British got eleven non-162, the Americans - four, French seven. Two cars hit the Soviet Union. An absolute revelation for the Soviet designers was the Catapult of the pilot, acting from the pyropatron.
Amazing Weapons of World War II: Flying Wing
Northrop (flying wing). This experimental heavy bombarder Designed for US Air Force, American designers during World War II. Known as XB-35. Aircraft used both turboprop and jet engines. The snapshot was made in 1946.
The project was closed shortly after the war, because of its technical difficulties. However, many developments implemented when creating XB-35 have been used to create a stealth invisible aircraft.
Weapons of World War II: Chemical weapons
June 28, 1946, St. Georgen (Salzburg, Germany). German workers deactivate toxic bombs containing mustard gas. 65,000 tons of chemical weapons warheads were recycled at the factory. The gas was burning, and empty shells and bombs were then flooded in the North Sea.
Started during the Second World War, the study of natural poisons and toxins led to the emergence of so-called toxin weapons - varieties of chemical weapons based on the use of the affecting properties of poisonous substances protein structureproduced by microorganisms, some types of animals and plants. During the studies, various types of botulinical toxin, staphylococcal enterotoxin, as well as ricin were isolated and described.
Flooding containers with chemical exercise in the North Sea.
After World War II in the USA in the field of chemical and biological agents Mass destruction the greatest attention It was paid to phosphorodorganic non-verbal action of the type of Zarin and Zoman, much superior to the toxicity, all previously known substances.
In the post-war years, new substances were adopted to replace the old substances of an annoying action - CS and CR. Both substances were the result of joint Anglo-American studies. The facts of the use of chemical weapons of the US Army against the DPRK (1951-1952) and Vietnam (60s) are known.
Amazing Weapons of World War II: Katyusha Real Settings
By the way, the Chemical War could begin on the Soviet-German front.
At the end of 1941, under Kerch, the Germans fired at Soviet positions by chemical shells from Nebelwerfer-41 reactive mortars. This was done in response to the use of RZS-132 rocket and incendiary projectiles by the Soviet troops. This ammunition was equipped with termit and was intended for shooting from Katyush.
For one volley "Katyusha" fired 1500 such incendiary elements. With the air undermining of the RZS-132, many fires of fire were created on the enemy positions, which were impossible to put out. The combustion temperature of the Termitite reached 4000 ° C. Finding into the snow, the burning thermite laid water on oxygen and hydrogen, forming a "rat mixture" of gases, increasing the already strong burning. When the termite on the armor of tanks and trunks of guns, alloy steel has changed its properties and combat vehicles No longer used.
Having defended the chemical shells of the positions of the Soviet troops under Kerch, the Germans demonstrated the Soviet team readiness to violate the 1925 Geneva Protocol, if the use of RZS-132 shells will continue.
More until the end of the war, Soviet troops did not use this type of shells.
It is known that the Germans hunted "Katyusha" in the hope of obtaining at least some information about the new Soviet weapons. In the fascist troops there were their own reactive mortar settings, which had a big adhesion of shooting, but they were effective only in the near battle, while Katyusha could effectively apply on the range over 8 kilometers. The secret was poring, which was developed by Soviet gunsmiths.
Weapons of World War II: jet shells
Active reactive shells (ARS) are usually considered to be the invention of the 60s of the twentieth century. But it is not. In particular, Germany joined the war against the USSR in service with small missiles - ammunition of the reactive artillery of calibers 150, 280 and 320 mm. The most successful development of German designers was a fragantive-fuchas rocket WurfGranate 42 SPRENG.
In their form, the rocket was similar to artillery shell And had a very successful ballistic form. 18 kg of fuel - powder was laid into the combustion chamber. The chamber neck screwed up the bottom with 22 inclined nozzles and a small central hole in which the electric focus was invested. To the front of the warhead was fastened with a cap with a caps of the igniter. The required ballistic form was provided by the casing that was put on the front of the warhead.
Guides of reactive shells were mounted on the chassis of the SD KFZ 251 armored personnel carrier three from each side. Starting the shells was produced using an electrical remote surface from the installation cab. As a rule, the fire was conducted by volley with alternation in each fragmentation-fugasal shells and incendiary projectiles. In the jargon of German soldiers, this installation received the names "Mock Cow".
So 280-mm FUGASS WURFKORPER SPRENG rocket circulated 45.4 kg of explosives. The effective zone of defeat by the fragments of this rocket was 800 meters. With the direct ingress of the ammunition in the brick building it completely destroyed. Combat part 320mm incendiary rocket filled 50 kg of incendiary mixture. When running fire on the dry forest, the rupture of mines caused a fire with an area of \u200b\u200bup to 200 square meters. Flame height meters up to two or three meters.
These mines were also called turbojet, as they rotated in flight due to the special design of the nozzle of the jet engine.
Weapons of World War II: radio-controlled self-propelled
April 12, 1944. The British soldier examines the captured by the German radio-controlled tracked platform, which has been equipped with a bomb and used to undermine the protective structures of the enemy.
Bowls american soldier On the German radio-controlled self-propelled platform.
The greatest technological progress can be observed during armed conflicts. Additional motivation to victory, as well as research in some areas, give extraordinary progress, to achieve which in peacetime a decade could be required. Second World War Not exception. Some of the most famous success, such as Russian and American space projects in the 60s, arose with the beginning of German studies during World War II.
Most of us have already looked at the programs about secret weapons The Nazi regime, which, being applied at another time, could turn the move and change the result of the Second World War. Earlier, Germany considered himself a nation standing above in scientific development, and did considerable successes in military technologies used in the first stages of the conflict. Then Hitler - possibly considering that he has already won the war, - began to make a small focus on military development during the war. And for some periods, it was crucial. When the situation has changed, Germany returned to the search for high-tech weapons, which was a desperate attempt to return to the former position of things.
This is an extraordinary weapon, or "WunderWaffe", came to the scene of hostilities too late - but what would happen if it had come before?
WunderWaffe 1 - Vampire Vision
Sturmgewehr 44 was the first assault rifle, similar to the modern M-16 and the Kalashnikov AK-47 automat. Snipers could use ZG 1229, also known under the name "Vampire Code", also at night, due to infrared night vision instrument. It was used for recent months wars.
Wunderwaffe 2 - Super Tank
German engineers worked on a lot of drawings of super heavy tanks. Panzerkampfwagen VIII MAUS was the most severe model that was manufactured as a prototype during the war. This tank weighed about 180 tons.
The Bear version, weighing 1500 tons, carried 2,800 millimeter cannons, as well as 2 150 mm additional rotating towers located at the back. To bring this giant in motion, 4 diesel engines were required from German submarines.
WunderWaffe 3 - The world's first winged rocket
V-1 was driven by a turbojet engine. Her launches began immediately after June 13, 1944, the day of landing of the Allied Troops in Europe.
V-2, the successor V-1, was the first object made by human hands, which made a subborital cosmic flight. At a speed of 4000 km / h, the V-2 was impossible to intercept; She could also achieve its goal at a speed exceeding the speed of sound.
The V-2 missiles were too high for its time level of development, which made them expensive in comparison with the destructive power of their small typical warheads. They were launched from mobile starting complexes; When they were used against the civilian population, they sowed fear and panic among the residents of London.
Approximately 3,000 V-2 missiles were released at the positions of allies, killing about 7,000 civilians * and servicemen; They stopped to launch, only when Reich's forces were forced to retreat beyond the reach of this weapon. If the forces of Germany had more time, the course of the war would be completely different, because their military program included nuclear warheads (in development), or chemical and biological versions that were never used.
* In fact, the Nazi ICBMs were more psychological weapons, since combat effectiveness compared to costs was extremely low
Wunderwaffe 5 - Turbojets
Messerschmitt Me 262.
The applicability of the turbojet engine to the military aircraft was also one of the directions, the red thread of German Military Machine. Engineers have developed a model and prototype. We also created the conditions for the aircraft to be sent to the end of the war. But the number of these machines was not sufficient to change the course of the conflict in favor of Germany. Messerschmitt ME 262 was strikingly advanced - but it did not receive intensive improvement for use in combat conditions. However, despite this, ME262 won over 500 victories. 100 German aircraft were shot down.
MESSERSCHMITT ME 163, driven by solid fuel rocket engines
TA-183 was designed to become a successor ME-262. At the end of the war, he passed the tests in aerodynamic pipes. It is curious to note that a few years later, the Soviet Union designed a widespread fighter combat aircraft, a stunning MIG-15, whose similarity with the German prototype is obvious - at least this information has been denied by the Soviet regime.
TA-183, German prototype
Mig-15, Design Bureau Mikoyan-Gurevich
Wunderwaffe 6 - Supporting Bomber
"Silbervogel", or "Silver Bird" - the name of the tactical subborital bomber driven by rockets. It was tested in aerodynamic pipes, but not a single prototype was made. Nevertheless, this is a big step forward in engineering skill and the vision of the future. Thus was predicted a whole direction of spacecraft, such as Space Shuttle Reusable Spaceship. German scientists believed that "Silver Bird" with a load of 4000 kg can cross the Atlantic Ocean and reach the American continent. The flight was supposed to be held in non-stop mode, with landing in Pacific Ocean On the territory of Japan.
WunderWaffe 7 - Flying Wing
A flying wing is a spacecraft with immutable wing geometry and without fuselage. All equipment and crew were placed inside the main design of the wing. In theory, the "wing" is the most effective aircraft in terms of aerodynamics and weighing design, mainly due to the lack of any external components, as well as due to the lifting force of the structure. However, as proved later, the complexity and cost of such a configuration are huge, which reduces its practical applicability for the modern civil airplant. Horten H1 made his first flight in 1944. After the war, there were many prototypes based on German studies.
Many other fantastic guns - a modern helicopter, a sunny gun (which could focus the sun rays to melt airplanes), cars for creating water films (intended for creating artificial tornadoes), or air guns (which could create unacceptable allies for allies atmospheric conditions) - were manufactured and tested to obtain the militaryAdd this post to such social networks as:
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