5 Weird Military Inventions that Did NOT Work Out 

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"If we just turn the enemy soldiers gay, they won't be able to fight, and we'll win the battle!" Apparently these guys have never heard of ancient Greece.

😂 I forgot that I had the settings on 1.25x because of another video and wondered why Simon was speaking even faster than he usually does. Thinking ‘How many Cokes has he had?!’

I once read that there was a major drawback to the anti-tank dogs. The tanks used to train them were Russian tanks, so when the time came to use them in combat, they carried their strapped-on bombs to those familiar Russian tanks.

OK, part of me loves how slap-dash that flying tank looked, it screams "Shit, we forgot to design a prototype, just look for any old airplane parts lying around the factory and we'll cobble something together over a weekend."

If one mentions the cornershot, you shouldn't forget to look at its crude ancestor from WWII the Krummlauf or curved Barrel attachment for the StG44. Even so am not sure the inventor of the cornershot knew about this invention it is worth a mention and could be seen as it's predecessor/ancestor. EDIT: spelling

That aircraft carrier made of ice had freezer units on it below decks that could make new ice to repair damage, and it could also maintain the entire below decks to below freezing that was capable of making the ice so cold that it froze the ocean water that got between the cracks and was effectively ablative self generated armor. After the war it was left anchored in warm waters with its freezers turned of and it still took many months to significantly melt the hull.

the corner shot is actually another attempt at the german design from WW2, they used a curved barrel

That better not be a fucking mine strapped to that dog

I SWEAR YOU'VE COVERED ALL 5 SUBJECTS IN A PREVIOUS VIDEO

0:45 - Chapter 1 - Iceberg aircraft carriers 3:00 - Mid roll ads 4:15 - Back to the video 5:50 - Chapter 2 - Flying tanks 9:30 - Chapter 3 - Gay bomb 12:35 - Chapter 4 - Anti tank dogs 15:50 - Chapter 5 - Cornershot PS: To all sideprojectors; did Simon mentionned the Sauterelle Type A crossbow who launches grenades in his channels ?

The ice project still sits at the bottom of Patricia Lake here in Alberta. Can be seen if you care to scuba dive to it

The Anatov A40 was ahead of it's time. It took the U.S. 30 years to replicate it. Of course the American's version was smaller and ligher so they only called theirs the A-10.

The problem I see with the corner shot is the recoil of the gun. Normally the recoil of, say, a 9mm, isn’t much and easily dealt with by an average adult. However, attaching it to a lever and then having the recoil moving sideways compared to the shooter’s arms and hands might make it difficult to control.

around the same time cornershot was introduced the Australian army was experimenting with a small periscope costing 50c that clipped onto a rifles optics and allowed a soldier to take a peek around blind corners and even aim that way,the cheap price meant soldiers could carry them all the time in the field and if lost or damaged it could be easily written off.I have no idea if they are still issued .

"this wasn't a plot out of a Sci-fi novel, but a serious line of inquiry"... yeah, so was MK Ultra. Totally serious research, the lot of it.

Additionally, the dogs with explosives often scurried under the tanks of their own side, blowing them up.

There are very effective flying tanks. They are the heavily armored attack helicopters like the MI-24 Hind series.

😭 while going through Simons various channels that I’m subscribed to I’ve realized how many of his videos never show up on my subscription feed or even recommendations weeks later, even if it’s over topics I tend to watch. Why RU-vid Why 😭

Was not expecting to get a code for a luna 4 while learning about weird war inventions. Cheers, Simon 🎉

Max is your doppelganger @2:44 Although he does have much better hair.

Thanks for sharing.

i do love weird military invention they are sometime even cooler then those who made into production like the aircraft carrier made of ice

Re: the Soviet tank-killing dogs. I've heard the exact opposite. When released, the dogs went, as they were trained, to destroy Soviet tanks.

We used the corner shot and it worked well but was showing us down far more than flash bang grenades

I don't know if this is true or not but there is a story where that Pyke demonstrated the bulletproof capabilities of Pykrete by shooting it with a revolver, the bullet ricocheted off of the pykrete and hit one of the officials attending the demonstration in the leg(the wound not being serious incase you were wondering).

And now we have the Apache helicopter, basically an upside-down tank.

The other main reason the anti tank dogs were shelved was they would often go under the Soviet tanks because they were trained on some .Catastrophic to the strategist

Mythbusters actually tried the first one. Lol it was a fun episode.

Thanks for the code - I have used the one before to get the bear and now this. I love how I can get this here - because I'm loving your content, but that doesn't mean I don't love skincare too

How is an A10 or a Mi-24 not a flying tank?

bro those soldiers were secretely banging it out

I for real thought at one point while I was in the army the corner shot was fancy spec ops stuff. Been out for over 10 years though.

3:20 mental and auditory whiplash!

I seem to recall another weird war experiment of Bat Bombs.

My understanding is a big fault with the anti-tank dogs is that they couldn't tell the difference between a Soviet and a German tank😂

Maybe the "flying tank" didn't work, but it's descendent does. The A-10 Thunderbolt II. Fairchild Republic's own Warthog! This is as close to flying tank as we are going to get. Sometimes a good idea just has to wait for technology to catch up to make the idea reality.

Hey Simon... perhaps its time to do an episode on 'animals in warfare' or something along those lines... We know they tried using pigeons, now you talk about dogs, and there is more recent stuff about dolphins... i wonder what other aminals were conscripted into the forces.

Lord Mountbatten was a not good dude, did not just mess around in bathtubs with just Churchill, just throwing that out there

Weren't a number of navies throughout the world using dolphins to find mines at sea?

Clive Cussler used the idea of an ice ship in one of his novels. Now I know where from the idea came.

Simon whistler at it again

That ice stuff sounds like it could work in space...

Don't forget the vaunted X15 Cruise Basselope.

Next time profile the big rocket powered wheel the British worked on to clear land mines on beaches. It ran all over the place.

The story of the tank attack dogs does have a weird, and slightly humourous, sidenote ... in that the dogs were trained using Soviet tanks and, once let loose on the battlefield, promptly headed for the Soviet, rather than the intended German, tanks. Also, with the Russian tactic of human-wave assaults, I cannot imagine any Russian soldiers shedding tears about sending dogs headlong to their deaths (if they weren't prepared to shed them for helpless poorly trained soldiers and convicts)

Far in the future I know, but I wonder if a version of Pykrete could be used on the icy moons in the solar system?

Flying Tank? A-10 anyone?

The cornershot has a German predecessor.

I bet the bomb dog idea was used by Max Brooks for the dogs in WWZ.

Imagine this cornershot's sideways recoil...

You used to see the corner-shot gun in some TV shows in the 2000s, like CSI and NCIS.

You forgot to mention the dogs sometimes targeted the Soviet tanks instead...😂

The cornershot rifle feels like a ultra rare weapon on a Modern Warfare or Fornite expansion. Or maybe something youd construct on Minecraft

I love me some Simon guess the finding a host to fill these big shoes isn’t going well

7:30 lol, I just imagine these huge wings falling on random soldiers.

I think i Fell in love with simons voice

I imagine the corner shot would have problems with recoil.

Of course the craziest brain dropping of the creations of Madman Pyke is on this list!

The mock-porn music for the Gay Bomb slide was just super wild. Lol.

Flying tanks do exist! Ever seen the A-10?

Surprised no modern pmcs have taken the winged tank idea outta the attic for the intimidation factor alone, seems doable with modern tech and dropping in on your enemies like that is gonna make em shit bricks.

And, of course, the greatest Military Invention is.... TikTok.

Not sure if a Foreo is the best gift for a significant other unless they specifically ask for it hahaha. "Hey babe you're looking kinda old.. I got you this. You're welcome."

Wait. What the hell is with the clip of tanks dancing around artillery doing a pirouette?

We also researched other chemicals to weaponize such as LSD. Or just leaving vast quantities of vodka for enemy troops. 🤠

10:51 Why do I hear “It’s Raining Men” as soon as the fireworks go off?

No bat bomb . Shocking ....

I'd love to see a video about wildland firefighting equipment. If a writer wants to pick up the idea I'm down for a collaboration. Let me sing you the song of my diggers.

Bat Tank ! Denna-denna-denna-denna, bat-tank !

An Apache is basically a flying tank.

Honestly, remove the attraction element of the b0mb idea and it's not actually all that bad of an idea, imo. A b0mb that causes people to get suddenly aroused and makes um... battle *hardened* soldiers would be a pretty useful distraction, lmao

Pykrete worked, check out how long the model lasted without cooling.

i think the AC-30 kinda debunks the "theory and practice" scoff of a flying tank. The AC-30 can definitely be defined as a tank in the sky...

4:12 It’s also prohibitively expensive for what it actually does.

I wonder who the editor is for Sideprojects. Not-Sam?

Believe it or not, the Americans had their own flying tank designs during world war 2: These were adaptations of the fast tanks designed by John Walter Christie, specifically his M1928 model. This was partially because it already used a powerful (for the time) aircraft engine to begin with, making around 750 HP, partially because it was a lightly armed and armoured tank with a longer hull than most other tanks of the time. Their idea was to attach a disposable wooden biplane frame to the rear two thirds of the tank chassis with explosive bolts, with the propeller driven by a chain drive from the rear sprocket on the tanks engine. Most flying tank designs were designed to be air dropped and either glide or fly for a few tens of miles at most before landing, but the American M1928 derived version was theoretically capable of taking off from the ground. One of the reporters at the time who saw a demonstration of the prototype (it was never put into production beyond that stage) described it as follows: "The most charitable description I can give is that the darned thing looks like it absolutely did not want to fly, but could be intimidated into doing it by the attached biplane frame."

Ice-berg air-base ? Clive Cussler territory.

I see you never heard of the fighting egg.

How did you miss the Pidgeon guided missile.

" I don't like them putting chemicals in the bombs that turn the frigging bombs gay" lol alex jones

The very first -and primitieve 'cornershot' was developed and used limited by the Germans. Their Sturmgewehr '44' was on it's self an exellent weapon. Someone even came at the idea to literally 'bend' the barrel of the rifle to shoot around corners. However, it didn't work well. The barrels had a very limited lifespan and were very hard to aim. So, they were dropped very soon.

It was rumoured that the Russian anti tank dogs had another problem in that the dogs couldn't tell the difference between German tanks and russian tanks. Yup if rumours were true you can kinda see the problem wit that lol

Train go boom? No, dog go boom.

Maybe in distant future, ice air craft carriers or ships become widespread as starships. It is a common knowledge that giant blocks of ice exists in space, so why not turn it into a spaceship with some extensive modifications?

Well, at least now we have robotic dogs that can be pointed at a specific target.

You missed the bat bombs of WWII!!

Hold on a minute; isn't 'necessity' the Mother of all invention?? 🤔🤣

Anti-tank dogs? Could the Soviets get any lower? Dogs are Angels

Sounds to me like if you really crunch the dogs in world war in did more the damage than the soldiers per capita

anything with the word bomb in it can backfire and one would potentially made a few husband seeking people very happy.

I don-t understand why was the Corner shot included here? Sure, it's a niche product but it was always intended to be that. Nobody thought that special forces unites would drop their assault rifles and use the Corner shot with a handgun exclusively. It's not a failure by any metric.. I thought Simon would include the first try on the concept by the Wehrmacht where they used rifles with a curved barrel that was issued to their tank crews. The impetus for this weapon was the capability for the crew to shoot down invading infantry that has already climbed on a tank, from the inside with only the curved barrel protruding and taking down the Soviet soldiers. The name of the attachment was Krummlauf, and it was a curved barrel that was attached to their phenomenal StG 44 assault rifle.. Krummlauf was a disaster cause the bullet disintegrated to multiple pieces when exiting the barrel, and the barrel itself would also be destroyed after a few dozen shots..

I'm a little sad we didn't see pigeon guided missiles in the video

What, no Bat Bombs?!! The U.S. experimented with bats by fitting them with small incendiary devices, set to go off by timer. The idea was that these bats would be dropped into Japanese cities where they would then seek shelter in the wooden structures. The bombs would then detonate at the pre-set time. As I recall, some of the bats got loose and ended up burning down some Army research buildings. But I'm not sure of that. How about it Simon? Want to field this one?

As a Canadian/ North American, I dont know much about Churchill. Do a video

Havoc was ice shelfed...

Okay to be honest with you here Simon, I half expected the flying tank to be an American idea, because that is some wild shit that Americans would do

0:53 Looks like you have a K in the wrong place, Brain Boy...😮😅

4:21 Why was Mountbatten standing in Churchill’s bathroom while he was taking a bath?

''Educational creator me'' That's not how you spell casualties That's not how you say 87 percent Close the door Thanks Simon