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02-18-2011, 11:04 AM
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Crazy Inventions from the Past
Anti-bandit bag: Baby cage: Baby holder: Beating breasts: Birdman suit: Cat-mew machine: Cigarette holder for two: Cigarette pack holder: Cup bras: Curved Barrel Machine Gun: Dog restrainer: External turkey roaster: Fast draw robot: Finnish Portable Sauna: Flying Platform: Handwriting game: Honeygar: Hubbard Electrometer: Illuminated Tires: Laryngaphone: Mini Television: Motorized Surfboard: Phone-Answering Robot: Rainy Day Cigarette Holder: Rocket Belt: Sea shoes: Shower hood: Tv glasses: Venetian Blind Sunglasses: Yodel Meter: |
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02-18-2011, 08:06 PM
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Re: Crazy Inventions from the Past
I had the chance to see one of the original curved barrel assault rifles when I visited Aberdeen Maryland. I also got to meet the big fat guy you always see on all the special military programs for the History Channel/Discovery Military Channel. William Atwater, who is the director for the United states Army Ordinance Museum. We got to go in the back and see a Barrel attachment for the STG-44 along with countless other items. It was called the Krummlauf. Our experience was almost exactly like the video for the military channel. (Only we spent 6 hours there) Greatest museum I have ever visited! <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Z56SNHHL60U?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> ^ The picture you posted is the US M3 sub-machine gun with a curved barrel. It came in 1953' years after the Germans had used it in WWII. Which in my mind makes it even more brain-less considering the Germans used it in small production and found it was absolutely stupid years earlier. Below is the image of a XFY-1.... an attempt at a vertical takeoff aircraft. Obviously it was impossible to land safe, just slow as balls and impossible to maneuver. |