30 Weird Weapons from History
‘An aircraft carrier made from ice in WWII’
There’s a near-koan in the world of engineering, both amateur and professional: “It’s not stupid if it works.” Apply this to a field like warfare where success is genuinely a life-or-death situation, and it rings even more true. Which explains why, in search of weaponry, some wildly strange armaments have been cooked up.
This collection of replies from an AskReddit thread features some of history’s weirdest weapons. From the unwieldy to the downright magical, these might not have made it to the battlefield, but they claimed territory in trivia repositories forever. After all, who knows? Maybe exploding bats would have won World War II, if given the chance.