What are the most impressive weapons ever built?
What category?
The Standard Missile family, integrated with the Aegis Combat System, is pretty fucking badass.
>>29951143
Then there's this fucker.
tsar bomba, project orion
>>29951116
>What are the most impressive weapons ever built?
Abusive dads
>>29951155
The Stinger is also well regarded.
Sprint missile, MIRVs,
Concepts: brilliant pebbles, rods of god, casaba howitzer (nuke powered EFP makes 900kg of tungsten go 3% the speed of light), and of course project Pluto.
>>29951156
project orion was never built. tsar bomba was not actually a weapon.
>>29951163
But of course nukes will always get top billing.
This thing always impresses me.
>>29951116
The vagina has begun and ended wars throughout history
>>29951174
But if you look at different eras, you might come up with different answers. Like the Martini-Henry rifle, for example.
This was pretty impressive for its time.
>>29951186
Personally, I like the concept of the steam ram.
Force is equivalent to mass times acceleration squared. So you take a steamboat, make it go really fast, and ram it into the enemy boat. Physics, motherfucker.
>>29951169
> largest nuke ever tested
> not actually a weapon.
He didnt say a weapon used in a war. That was a bomb. Bombs are most definitely weapons.
>>29951183
Pussy is undefeated.
>>29951203
Enh. It was impractically large. Even as a propaganda showpiece, it doesn't really work. Feel free to call it a weapon if you want, though.
Me? I kinda like the K-Max
> Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics.
desu senpai
>>29951227
On another note, the Harrier jump jet in its original role: Operating from dispersed, unimproved airfields.
The thinking was that the Soviets would probably tac-nuke all of NATO's airbases in western Europe, but jump jets operating from hidden pads scattered throughout the countryside could still provide CAS for the rolling retreat.
It was only later that everybody realized the obvious: That the design was ideal for naval operations.
>>29951243
Also, don't underestimate the role of AWACs in the modern battlespace.
>>29951207
The bane of commoners and kings
>>29951255
On the other hand, if you're looking for propaganda pieces that completely fucking own the dick-waving battles of the Cold War, this is your weapon of choice right here.
> Is that your flag on the moon? I didn't think so.
>>29951266
>>29951202
>I failed high school physics: the post
>>29951292
cockpit
Pointy stick. It's retarded how better it is at killing people compared to bear hands.
>>29951180
How the fuck is it loaded
>>29951303
He's right though. F=MA. Granted, weird things happen when you factor in water, since you have hull disbursement, and a bunch of forces working on it. Also, energy wouldn't transfer all that great. He was right though.
>>29951163
Slow as fuck...
>>29951472
With like twelve guys and a horse.
>>29951116
Rise of the AI machines. The hardware can always change. It's the mind that wields it can be scarier.
I wonder what the triple nuke shock wave would look like from above and would it be additive?
>>29951275
Hur dur muh moon landing USA best space fairing nation yadda yadda.
Shut the fuck up the russians won the space race...
>>29951202
Only applicable unless they did Allahu Snackbar and detonated the boilers and explosive barrels of black powder and ball bearings. That would be the Merican version.
Fire attack barges have been used before.
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>>29951227
It was a weapon though. The Proton rocket was designed to be an ICBM that could carry such a heavy warhead.
>>29951116
mind control
>>29951521
Went a little heavy on the salt today, did we?
>>29951116
Whatever the first one ever was since it lead to all others.
Gustavus Adolphus' light artillery during the 30 Years War.
It changed the role of artillery forever.
>>29951155
Whahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahha.
Just because it is sort of revolutionary changes nothing over the fact it's a shit plane.
SS-18 "Satan" with 10 warheads. It's not like pokemon, you will never catch them all.
>>29951164
>and of course project Pluto.
Project Pluto, while awesome, was never built. They got as far as ground testing a prototype engine.
*BRRRRRT*
Battleships.
The amount of resources, technology, politics, and pride placed in them is unrivaled by any other weapon.
They were not something expendable like a quickly made destroyer, they were not something that would be bugged down in mud like a tank, and they were not one-time use weapons like a bomb or missile. They were symbols of great nations and empires that were seeking naval dominance and to inspire their people. They were as brutal as they were glorious.
