Okay, starting off..... I think the thread name is self explanatory. I want to know about all secret weapons even if they were never built and remained a concept. No so much as aeroplanes or jet fighters designed by the Nazis/Allies but the really weird stuff;
'Rail Gun Project'
(Not sure if you're familiar or not but was thinking from a Metal Gear Solid point of view, adding missile range and boosting surface attack of naval units)
'Whirlwind Cannon'
(This was the brainchild of Dr. Zippermeyer, an Austrian inventor who created a number of odd anti aircraft weapons for the Nazis. The cannon worked by generating explosions in a combustion chamber, which would be released through special nozzles, and finally directed towards their target. A scale model was built which proved to be successful, as these “whirlwind” blasts supposedly shattered wooden planks at a range of 600 feet. Despite having a working scale model, the project was scrapped after a full sized version could not replicate the same effect at high altitude targets. The actual “Whirlwind Cannon” itself was found rusting and abandoned by puzzled Allied forces on the Artillery Proving Ground at Hillersleben in April 1945.) How insane is that!?
'Canal Defence Light'
The idea is credited to a Greek citizen, A V M Mitzakis, who devised the system in 1937. The British War Office showed no interest until 1940, when a prototype was constructed using a Matilda II tank. The tank's normal turret was replaced with a cylindrical one containing both a 13 million candlepower (12.8 million candela) searchlight and a machine gun.
The searchlight turret included a station for an operator, who had the task of changing the light's carbon electrodes when they burned out. The light emerged from a vertical slit that was just 2 inches (5.1 cm) by 24 inches (61 cm), a small size which reduced the chance of battle damage to the optical system. The beam diverged at 19° horizontally and 1.9° vertically, forming a pool of light of around 34 by 340 yards (31 m × 311 m) at a distance of 1,000 yards (910 m). The turret could rotate 360° and the light beam could be elevated or depressed by 10° from the horizontal.
Blue and amber filters allowed the light to be coloured as well as white. A shutter could flash the beam on and off up to twice a second. It was found the blue light caused the CDL tank to appear to be at a greater distance, and blue and amber light beams from two CDL tanks could combine to illuminate a target with white. A flashing beam would further dazzle and disorient enemy troops by not giving their eyes a chance to adapt to either light or darkness.
'EMP Smart Bombs'
They work like an EM Pulse, but when a 'bomb' goes off near electrical and data stores it burns out the circuitry rather than disabling it and wipes data clean from storage devices. With no known effect on humans besides momentary queaziness.
I don't want to hear about orbital sun mirrors because I can't represent that in-game lol but whatever else you can throw at me go nuts!
'Rail Gun Project'
(Not sure if you're familiar or not but was thinking from a Metal Gear Solid point of view, adding missile range and boosting surface attack of naval units)
'Whirlwind Cannon'
(This was the brainchild of Dr. Zippermeyer, an Austrian inventor who created a number of odd anti aircraft weapons for the Nazis. The cannon worked by generating explosions in a combustion chamber, which would be released through special nozzles, and finally directed towards their target. A scale model was built which proved to be successful, as these “whirlwind” blasts supposedly shattered wooden planks at a range of 600 feet. Despite having a working scale model, the project was scrapped after a full sized version could not replicate the same effect at high altitude targets. The actual “Whirlwind Cannon” itself was found rusting and abandoned by puzzled Allied forces on the Artillery Proving Ground at Hillersleben in April 1945.) How insane is that!?
'Canal Defence Light'
The idea is credited to a Greek citizen, A V M Mitzakis, who devised the system in 1937. The British War Office showed no interest until 1940, when a prototype was constructed using a Matilda II tank. The tank's normal turret was replaced with a cylindrical one containing both a 13 million candlepower (12.8 million candela) searchlight and a machine gun.
The searchlight turret included a station for an operator, who had the task of changing the light's carbon electrodes when they burned out. The light emerged from a vertical slit that was just 2 inches (5.1 cm) by 24 inches (61 cm), a small size which reduced the chance of battle damage to the optical system. The beam diverged at 19° horizontally and 1.9° vertically, forming a pool of light of around 34 by 340 yards (31 m × 311 m) at a distance of 1,000 yards (910 m). The turret could rotate 360° and the light beam could be elevated or depressed by 10° from the horizontal.
Blue and amber filters allowed the light to be coloured as well as white. A shutter could flash the beam on and off up to twice a second. It was found the blue light caused the CDL tank to appear to be at a greater distance, and blue and amber light beams from two CDL tanks could combine to illuminate a target with white. A flashing beam would further dazzle and disorient enemy troops by not giving their eyes a chance to adapt to either light or darkness.
'EMP Smart Bombs'
They work like an EM Pulse, but when a 'bomb' goes off near electrical and data stores it burns out the circuitry rather than disabling it and wipes data clean from storage devices. With no known effect on humans besides momentary queaziness.
I don't want to hear about orbital sun mirrors because I can't represent that in-game lol but whatever else you can throw at me go nuts!
