Wars are hilarious. A part of what makes them so funny is the crazy contraptions that quackers inventors come up with to try to give their team the advantage.
Lets look at some in pic related.
We see a German spy pigeon with a camera attached.
The Brewster Body Shield, a suit of armour designed to stop a machine gun bullet. Think how much of a kek you'd have seeing one of those on the battlefield.
German audio-visual apparatus to enhance the boom and flash of enemy artillery, helping to pinpoint gun positions.
A limber pole ladder used by the Royal Artillery in Mesopotamia to get a better vantage point in the desert.
A British pigeon parachute. Pigeons would be parachuted into occupied territory, with a message asking civilians to write and attach to the pigeon the positions of the enemy, and then release the pigeon so it could fly back to Britain with the information.
US soldiers trained to use mattresses in place of life-jackets. They look like diapers.
Germans generating electricity via bicycle.
A US Naval officer using a massive horn-speaker to banter the troops.
Replacing real trees with fake ones which snipers and scouts could play hide n seek in.
Australian engineers from the 4th Field Company moving a dummy tank in preparation for an attack on the Hindenberg line.
A captured Turkish sniper in camouflage.
US experimental camouflage that looks like it belongs in a Texas Chainsaw Massacre film.
The Kent Cyclist Battalion. Bicycles weren't as important as expected.
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>>284663
>Wars are hilarious
No, they're not
>>284663
>european imperialism
not even once.
>>284676
lol
>>284663
Hi I'm Tom Bergeron and you're watching America's Funniest Wars's Top 10 HILARIOUS Inventions of WWI. Starting our list is the WACKIEST technology ever: mustard gas! What kind of goofball came up with this? Hahhaah
>>284663
How the fuck did they expect the pigeon to take pictures. Did the camera have a timer of some sort?
>>284676
i beg to differ. take a look at the redeployment of the russian baltic fleet during the russo-japanese war. it would be comical if 4,000 of them hadn't died.
>To lift their spirits, the crews collected exotic pets on shore visits - including a crocodile and a poisonous snake that caused a panic on one battleship when it wrapped itself around the guns and then bit the commanding officer. The fleet turned into a floating zoo as a bizarre menagerie of birds and animals was left free to roam the decks. Events took a more severe downturn when the cooling plant on the "Esperance", the fleet's refrigerated supply ship, broke down. A lot of rotting meat had to be jettisoned which resulted in the fleet being followed by sharks.
>>284977
Clockwork timer. Also from its point of departure to its return, pigey is taking pictures continuously like an asian tourist.
>Separated from your unit
>decide to go looking for them
>start stumbling around in the dark
>suddenly this motherfucker shows up
>>284663
>World War I
>Anything but a colossal tragedy
>>284676
Some stories from James Longstreet's memoirs (American Civil War)
>At around 5pm the day before first Mananas, as both armies move into position, a federal battery takes aim at Longstreet's brigade, who laying in a deep recess. The cannonballs and shells are going over the top of Longstreet's position into the Confederate rear. One shot hits the house in which General Beauregard has made his HQ and destroys the dinner he was about to eat. Beauregard then sent a section of the Washington Artillery to Longstreet's brigade with orders to "obtain revenge on the Yankees for the General's lost dinner."
>On detached duty with his I corp in South Carolina, Longstreet's men take a Yankee position that included the curious addition of a signal corp outpost built high up in a tree. An enterprising Confederate solider climbed the tree to the platform to get a better look at the Union position. The Union artillery, seeing a long confederate in the outpost, decides to fire a warning shell in his direction. The soldier doesn't want to seem like a coward, so he lingers in the outpost until the Yankees fire a second shell that promptly urges him down the tree as fast as possible, to the amusement of both sides. The Confederate decides to get back at the Yankees and devises a clever plan. That afternoon he make a scarecrow and dresses it in butternut gear, and at night climbs the tree and ties the scarecrow firmly to the outpost and tree trunk. The confederate soldiers name their new sentry "Julius Caesar." At dawn the Union artillerists spotted a man in the outpost and decided to hold artillery practice. They spent the better part of the morning shelling the tree while the figure simply stood bravely in their fire. Eventually the laughter of the Confederates reached the Union lines and the Yankees realized what had happened. Both sides decided to cheer and feast the brave Julius Caesar.
