The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Saturday, June 13, 2015

10 Wacky Experimental Nazi Weapons

From the Sept. 22, 2013, Listverse.

10.  HEINKEL He 162-- 116 made, unsuccessful
9.  PANZER VIII MAUS--  Largest tank ever built
8.  JUNKERS Ju 322 MAMMUT--  Replacement for cargo planes

7.  ROCKET U-BOAT--  Sub with rockets to attack the United States.  The U-511 was the first one.
6.  FIESLER Fi 103R--  A piloted rocket where the pilot parachuted out at the last minute.

5.  FLIEGERFAUST--  Portable ground-to-air rocket launcher.
4.  ZEPPELIN RAMMER--  A plane to be towed by another plane.

3.  TAIFUN--  A rocket for use against bombers.
2.  KRUMMLAUF--  Allowed a rifle to fire in many directions and, for infantry, could fire around corners.

1.  THE SUN GUN--  A giant mirrot sent into orbit to boil seas and burn cities down.

Those Germans.  --GreGen

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