Weird Military Weapons in History

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[JustinY.]

Pretty crazy that a team of people designed and constructed a TANK SILENCER just to decrease the amount of noise for the surrounding neighborhood

[vsGoliath]

An anti-tank artillery Vespa is the single most French thing I have ever heard in my entire life.

[mclaine]

The shield shovel is one of those things that sounds great on paper but just fails in every way when put to practical use.

[aliefabdurrahman]

1. The Macadam Shield Shovel(0:08)
2. The Kolibri Mini pistol(2:02)
3. Sniper Decoys: Dummy head(4:04)
4. Dummy Tanks(7:42)
5. Fake Trees(10:50)
6. What was the Thing Cold war(13:56)
7. Curved Barrel/Krummlauf(16:28)
8: Drip Rifle(18:46)
9. Periscope Rilfe(20:24)
10. Tank gun Suppressor(25:56)
11. The Bazooke Vespa(30:13)
12. Mobile Shields(34:02)

[dogeclanleader]

Everybody gangsta till Bob pulls up with his shield shovel

[Peter-uryy]

The Kolibri just seems like a great way to go from getting robbed to getting robbed and stabbed

[pocketsand]

Check out the Grendel P-10. It doesn't have a detachable magazine, it's fixed like the C-96 broomhandle pistol. It feeds by stripper clips. The P-10 was made by George Kellgren, the founder of Kel-tec. One of the strangest guns I've owned I wish I still kept it.

[rockkid]

It's nice to see the evolution of Simple History's production quality through these compilations.

[lifefordummies]

The amount of cat and mouse style deception that happened in the war is fascinating. I could learn about it all day. I also like the spy training camps that used cool techniques to choose their agents. Example: get everyone to write an aptitude test, but half way through have a few people chase each other thought the room with guns. Then the real test begins. How many men where there? what colour were their eyes? which ones had guns? etc. Pure genius.

[pseudonymsam]

The Kolibri pistol is an interesting piece of history, but why is a novelty item for the civilian market included in a list of weird "military weapons?"

[believeinmatter]

Could watch compilations like this forever honestly, as informative as it is entertaining.

[brycevo]

It's crazy how creative we get when it comes to fighting

[deltaomega]

The shield shovel has a valuable lesson: Don't take military advice from a secretary.

[botcherbutcher]

As somebody who grew up in a small town close to Meppen, which was even closer to the site, I always found it fascinating since they had shooting drills every Wednesday and you could hear it at out school, not too loud, more like in the distance but as kids we loved it as we tried to figure out the timing etc. Also for quite some time jets (the much bigger noise polluters imo) used Haren's big Church dome as visual aid while navigating and flying maneuvers. Also Kudos for recreating the Meppen Town Hall in your video, loved it!

[jbecker]

23:03 That's a brilliant design. Props to that guy
24:31 And this guy, man they got creative...

[James__Russell]

Always neat to see these interesting bits of history even if some of the stuff is a bit hit & miss sometimes.
9:56 guy that goes by Wendigoon actually did a pretty good video talking about one such double agent. Strung the Germans along for ages.

[doggydude]

I noticed that they suddenly returned to their old style took me so long to realize they just put together old videos lol

[jacobzehner]

2:02 it’s such a tiny pistol that it would kill bugs.

[stealthynaxo]

A shovel with a hole. A true display of human ingenuity and survival instinct at work.

[haydnadkins]

Imagine being stuck in a fake tree when you're trench is taken. That would definitely be a nighttime escape back to your lines type of mission in a game.