The Liberator was meant as a means of capturing other weapons. Each weapon was clearly cheap and easy to produce, and thus could be dropped theoretically in great numbers. Imagine the psychological effect on German soldiers knowing that anyone may potentially have a small single shot weapon hidden, waiting to kill you.

The Japanese balloon bombs would scored a tremendous propaganda victory if they had been a little more effective. The concept behind them was reasonably sound, the US was just lucky they did not start any serious fires.

Davy Crockett, while horrible in its implications at least made tactical sense. Given the fact that Soviet forces were far superior to NATO ones, area denial as well as something that could cause mass casualties would be desirable. I am not sure I would call it a smart or even reasonable weapon, but it does not strike me as particularly stupid.

The No. 74 grenade like MANY other weapons was potentially dangerous to its user. Again, the principle behind the weapon was not particularly stupid. Simply the execution was lacking.

Historically there were some truly stupid ideas that came to fruition. Most of the things on the list were mediocre if not short sighted weapons. Only ’stupid’ in the sense that they were not really effective, not stupid in the more traditional sense.

Presumably the reloading option and the 2nd round stashed in the handle were only put there as a “just in case” (albeit a poorly designed one granted)

Just realized the date on this, but I stand by it :)

C & P y traducido: Se dice que el progreso del ser humano es innegable, siempre encontramos nuevas formas de asesinar los demás….

That’s because the winners and losers all sat down and created international bodies – these bodies basically merged the economies of those countries and made war very costly in monetary terms. You wouldn’t ever see a major EU country bombing another – or NATO governments trading bullets before sanctions and discussions.

@ “its futile but…”

“turn down the foreign aid and dont take advantage of any of our contributions like the medical revolution, outer space exploration, deep sea exploration, industrialization, cyberspace, the sciences, modern mathematics and physics, robotics, advances in agriculture, etc. Go live in a cave and fuck right off.”

Get a clue – America didn’t create industrialisation, Britain did. The medical revolution was in full swing way before America was on the scene, as was deep sea exploration, the sciences, maths, physics (which is also a science by the way), robotics and agriculture. Computers are a British invention too, the british government gave what was at the time the most advanced technology in the world to America, their computer technology, it was basically used to encrypt/decrypt communications between the allied forces so the Nazi’s couldn’t intercept them. So don’t kid yourself, most inventions were born outside of the US. There have been a few good things to come out of America though, Baywatch, internet porn, my macbook pro – hey, your military even created TCP too, which in turn led to CERN in Europe creating http to run on top and boom – we have the internet – the very system you can spout shit on now!! ;) It’s called collaboration – awesome isn’t it.