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		OliveMate 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The WW2 experiment to make pigeon-guided missiles ... Really 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_We... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncing_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_rat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjandrum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart%27s_Funnies

stevenwoo 11 months ago [–]

I 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 and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewes_bomb

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