Unique Military Weapons

[threebag]

How about the small pox infested wool blankets

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by threebag02

How about the small pox infested wool blankets

The earliest form of biological warfare, what a dastardly deed.

Early Americans were some some hardcore, heartless mother****ers.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by scott free

The earliest form of biological warfare, what a dastardly deed.

Early Americans were some some hardcore, heartless mother****ers.

Not the earliest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...ogical_warfare

The earliest documented incident of the intention to use biological weapons is recorded in Hittite texts of 1500–1200 BC, in which victims of tularemia were driven into enemy lands, causing an epidemic.[1]

My favorite, though, was when they'd catapult corpses into besieged cities to spread the plague:

During the Middle Ages, victims of the bubonic plague were used for biological attacks, often by flinging fomites such as infected corpses and excrement over castle walls using catapults. In 1346, during the siege of Kafa (now Feodossia, Ukraine) the attacking Tartar Forces which were subjugated by the Mongol empire under Genghis Khan, used the bodies of Mongol warriors of the Golden Horde who had died of plague, as weapons. An outbreak of plague followed and the defending forces retreated, followed by the conquest of the city by the Mongols. It has been speculated that this operation may have been responsible for the advent of the Black Death in Europe. At the time, the attackers thought that the stench was enough to kill them, though it was the disease that was deadly.[6][7]

At the siege of Thun-l'Évêque in 1340, during the Hundred Years' War, the attackers catapulted decomposing animals into the besieged area.[8]
In 1422, during the siege of Karlstein Castle in Bohemia, Hussite attackers used catapults to throw dead (but not plague-infected) bodies and 2000 carriage-loads of dung over the walls.[9]

The last known incident of using plague corpses for biological warfare occurred in 1710, when Russian forces attacked the Swedes by flinging plague-infected corpses over the city walls of Reval (Tallinn).[10] However, during the 1785 siege of La Calle, Tunisian forces flung diseased clothing into the city.[9]
English Longbowmen usually did not draw their arrows from a quiver, rather, they stuck their arrows into the ground in front of them. This allowed them to nock the arrows faster and the dirt and soil was likely to stick the arrowheads, thus making the wounds much more likely to become infected.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by scott free

The earliest form of biological warfare, what a dastardly deed.

Early Americans were some some hardcore, heartless mother****ers.

Cute/early Romans

[Easy 6]

Yep, i'd completely forgotten how they used to catapult plague vicitms into besieged towns, good call guys.

How about this, invisibility cloak in action or "frame lag"?...



ed- not sure why it wont load, but it appears to show a soldier appear out of nowhere and climb onto an Abrams in the middle east during a firefight.

[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by scott free

Yep, i'd completely forgotten how they used to catapult plague vicitms into besieged towns, good call guys.

How about this, invisibility cloak in action or "frame lag"?...



ed- not sure why it wont load, but it appears to show a soldier appear out of nowhere and climd onto an Abrams in the middle east during a firefight.

Holy shit,it's the Jem Hadar

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by scott free

Yep, i'd completely forgotten how they used to catapult plague vicitms into besieged towns, good call guys.

How about this, invisibility cloak in action or "frame lag"?...

ed- not sure why it wont load, but it appears to show a soldier appear out of nowhere and climb onto an Abrams in the middle east during a firefight.

I remember reading years ago about how they had invisibility cloaks in development. I don't remember the exact details, but apparently LED was some kind of breakthrough, along with the miniaturization of camera technology. I'm sure it's advanced well beyond this, but at that time, as i recall, they had a series of cameras that would record on one side of your body and then leds would project the image on the other. And they had this working on multiple levels, from individual to tanks and planes.

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

I remember reading years ago about how they had invisibility cloaks in development. I don't remember the exact details, but apparently LED was some kind of breakthrough, along with the miniaturization of camera technology. I'm sure it's advanced well beyond this, but at that time, as i recall, they had a series of cameras that would record on one side of your body and then leds would project the image on the other. And they had this working on multiple levels, from individual to tanks and planes.

Exactly, i bet by now they have it in use in the field, particularly the smaller stuff like individual suits.

[Easy 6]

Metal Storm = WOW

An unmanned sentry capable of that kind of destruction.

[Aries Walker]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

The earliest form of biological warfare, what a dastardly deed.

Early Americans were some some hardcore, heartless mother****ers.

It wasn't the earliest form, and they weren't Americans. That happened one time, in what is now Pittsburgh, and it was the British that did it.

And yes, I am replying to a post from 2013.

[MarkDavis'Haircut]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

The earliest form of biological warfare, what a dastardly deed.

Early Americans were some some hardcore, heartless mother****ers.

Genius move.

The Indians would have killed and scalped the settlers otherwise. They also enjoyed smashing babies' heads against trees.

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by Carr4MVP

Genius move.

The Indians would have killed and scalped the settlers otherwise. They also enjoyed smashing babies' heads against trees.

You're in some deep dive territory on this thread lol

Few alive today could even fathom how brutal and harsh life was back then, but there are always two sides to every story... we can't change the past, only learn from it

[MarkDavis'Haircut]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

You're in some deep dive territory on this thread lol

Few alive today could even fathom how brutal and harsh life was back then, but there are always two sides to every story... we can't change the past, only learn from it

The good guys and civilization won. That is all that matters.