Weird Military Weapons in History
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Pretty crazy that a team of people designed and constructed a TANK SILENCER just to decrease the amount of noise for the surrounding neighborhood
“hey guys, sorry for all that noise, so we made this suppressor for our tank”
“bro wtf”
Oh hello
He lives
JUSTIN?!
Wierd right?
An anti-tank artillery Vespa is the single most French thing I have ever heard in my entire life.
Electric mcs are used in Ukraine to quietly get Javelins within range against tanks
Wait until war thunder adds them
@@M60A3 because it can't be fired from the scooter we will sadly never see it unless it's april fools
@@bonelesschicken4455 Maybe it can be used on a bigger scooter. I ride a Burgman Executive 650 scooter (650 being the CC of the engine). I once heard that Honda was thinking of coming out with a 800CC scooter, but I don't know if they did.
I hear vespasian I think Italy?
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)
You sir, are a good man. I hope your day goes very well
@@Hans140 thanks🙏.
so the Penis/Belt Gun thats in "From Dusk till dawn" isnt a thing?
@@partygurke9109 There were officers belt buckler guns. All version I know of were small caliber and one shot per barrel(many having multiple barrels). Now the version in From Dusk Till Dawn is impractical as revolvers can't feed from two cylinders like that.
I thought that you didn’t know what was “the thing from the Cold War” and I thought you just wrote “the thing” because you didn’t know what it was 😂😂😂
The Kolibri just seems like a great way to go from getting robbed to getting robbed and stabbed
Lol, that’s why you should always carry an m16 American style
Granted with current tech, a true functional version could now be made. In theroy anyway.
A Walter PPK would be a better idea
it makes .22lr look like a fucking anti-tank round. Another way to put in perspective how tiny it is, it's apparently the equivalent of ONE bird shot pellet running at half the velocity I think.
Carry a Pocket pistol
The shield shovel is one of those things that sounds great on paper but just fails in every way when put to practical use.
It wasn't a total flop it probably inspired someone to make body armor
Bring it to a nerf war
Yeah that's what the video said noone needs your redundant imput
You must come from a really poor annoying family who just repeat and copy normal ppl trying to fit in but never succeeding and always irritatingly useless and oblivious
@@hfffju7913 damn ok
Everybody gangsta till Bob pulls up with his shield shovel
Bruh how is this not the top comment
It's nice to see the evolution of Simple History's production quality through these compilations.
No
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@@rockkid1412 off
@@kam2894 ffo
the art graphic and animation is unfortunately still primitive.
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.
Huh.
Same with the Steyr M12.
Yeah I remember that contraption of his like that.
Kel tec?
Shotguns please!! Two tubes, yep👍
Kel tec is trash
The shield shovel has a valuable lesson: Don't take military advice from a secretary.
What nonsense. Hedy Lamarr was a civilian too. But you're using her invention now.
@@crhu319 it’s *Hedly*
@@Ronoc49 “hedy” makes her sound like a Whitehouse intern lol
Even if you're an idiot like Sam Hughes.
@@Ronoc49 "Hedly"? Utter nonsense. Its HEDY... short for "Hedwig" Which was her Austrian birth name. Check facts before typing complete BS.
I noticed that they suddenly returned to their old style took me so long to realize they just put together old videos lol
I personally prefer their old style compared to the new style
@@dominuslimo4147 honestly yeah not even for nostalgia it just looked so nice especially for its simplicity
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.
It's crazy how creative we get when it comes to fighting
necessity is the mother of invention
Except for the tank silencer. Not for war. For testing artillery and tanks.
@@Nieversilencers in general were made for testing.
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?"
Probably because it was in battlefield 1, which makes some people think that it was an actual sidearm.
@@Juicewski2 not to mention it was a collectable in the First World War
Your mom is also an interesting piece of History
More like an early 1900s take on pepper spray. Intended to deter an attacker on the street than in a true combat situation in which it would be hilariously unsuited.
Because this Chanel loves clickbait.
The best part about the howitzer silencer is that it's built to have the Strongest Shape...
An egg ???
Hello fellow engineer!
2:02 it’s such a tiny pistol that it would kill bugs.
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!
I live in meppen
Wait you live in haren?
@@mitazz-fighter8196 steal his mial
Could watch compilations like this forever honestly, as informative as it is entertaining.
Do you watch them sober?
@@jwhite3830 Yes I’m going on 2 years sober right now actually. Had a problem with drinking
Hmm not me. Every weapon was a drink, every 2 weapons was a marijuana hit.
So it must be pretty boring to watch.
@@believeinmatter Good for you, brother.
23:03 That's a brilliant design. Props to that guy
24:31 And this guy, man they got creative...
28:45
The Kolibri was a "parlor pistol". It really was for plinking indoors. Usually at parties, with lots of alcohol.
"The thing", was physics creation made by Leon Theremin. It used basic passive theory, and could not be detected by standard bug detecting gear, which was made to detect "active" bugs. It could only be detected with a properly tuned grid dip meter, close up. Sometimes you get the best results going back to "first principles" instead of some fancy piece of high tech gear.
Makes sense one of their most successful bugs was a simple design. It was basically idiot-proof.
Tt
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.
and then you want to pee
I’d rather imagine the board meeting for the German “tank muffler” lmao
“-Hans i got zis crazy idea,ja! Ich will make ze panzer quieter! Ich been looking through meine schoolpapers and i heard zis great boom and i saw zis drawing on ze papieren,ja!
-Dietrich,zis is a pen’
-Ich made a blueprint already it iz going to ze production,ja!”
@@martinschmiedt3075 Ich war selbst dabei und genau so ist es gewesen 😁
we can make a historically inaccurate movie out of this!
A shovel with a hole. A true display of human ingenuity and survival instinct at work.
Perhaps if it had a working shudder?
To be matched only by the solar powered flashlight...
28:48 …. So we’re not gonna talk about the “muffler” shape?
44 MPH while carrying all that equipment is quite impressive
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.
A FELLOW WENDIGOON FAN WASSUP!!!
He puts out some really good, well researched videos.
Love that video
Gotta love that rocket vespa
Fun fact
There are multiple WTDs across Germany, each having their own specialised field of research, such as avionic, naval vessels and weapons, landbound and air-to-ground ammunition and weapons (Meppen), infantry related stuff, landbound vehicles (the tanks and trucks themselves, I worked there) and pioneer machinery.
Actually an interesting topic on its own *hint hint*
Nice try, russian spy.
@@NormanTheDormantDoormat any Russian spy could just go to Wikipedia, honestly.
That Vespa is the coolest thing I've ever seen.
'OP Tree', I get the name. In case two trees had a fight, any tree reenforced with steel and armed with a soldier would be called totally OP.
Imagine how quiet a suppressed kolibri would be.
It would probably sound like this:
Quieter than a greasy fart.
You wouldn’t hear it if it misfired in your handbag.
I love how half of these inventions are useless and impractical and the other half actually served a niche purpose extremely well.
Also wondering how many useless inventions actually led to practical items?
Someone really needs to make an FPS game centered around weird weapons. Like maybe it could be a spec-ops vs spec-ops type of thing where you pick a country and build a loadout from a selection of that country's most unusual weapons, after which you and your teammates fight another group
That existed already and was glorious when the player base was high. It was the “Secret Weapons of WWII” expansion to BF1942, an already amazing game. You can still find copies of it and every now and then there’s servers that can be found with other players.
Battlefield1
All of that is nothing compared to ed with a pebble in his shoe
true
The drip gun would only fire once, since it was bolt action, so they would have had to set up a great many guns to give an impression that the defenses were still manned. It wouldn't seem very effective, but I guess any confusion it caused was helpful.
It was a plan that was crazy enough to work. This was Gallipoli a notorious meat-grinder for the ANZAC so they would no shortage of rifles to use too. They also set the guns on a delay so they wouldn't fire in large volleys but still close enough between guns to give the impression there were soldiers trying to find targets.
As per Ember Fists comment, the idea was to give the appearance of troops firing at random intervals. The ANZACs set up literally hundreds of drip guns to cover the final evacuation, resulting in a clear withdrawal with zero casualties. The rifles were spaced and timed such that 4 or 5 rifles would fire every few minutes at distances covering the entire trenchline. Rifles can be easily replaced. Experienced troops can't. The last troops to leave also spent their last hours running up and down the trenchline firing of rounds at random positions and making noise to resemble a fully manned trenchline. The Gallipoli evacuation was an incredible feat of deception the fooled the Turks for several hours after the last of the ANZACs was on board the troop transports that removed them from an unsustainable position, and is a testament to the creativity and teamwork that cemented Australia and New Zealand as truly valuable soldiers to the Commonwealth, a legacy that holds to this day.
@@emberfist8347 You may be right. The only downside to the plan was leaving a whole bunch of rifles to the Turks, which wouldn't be that big a deal unless the Turks had a lot off .303 ammunition.
@@williamromine5715 Lee-Enfields could be replaced much easier and the Ottomans used mostly Germans arms.
If it’s crazy but works…It’s not crazy.
The kolibri pistol was made by a watchmaker, giving a reason for its tiny size.
30:19 the bazooka vespa... I'm Italian and one day i saw that exposed for a parade... i cannot believe my eyes !!! i was thinking at some strange steam punk fantasy work from a techno artist but later i discover that exist for real :D
The Vespa is the funniest and cutest little thing. And you put some kickass metal in the background. Just another reason why this is my favorite history channel
The mobile shields. Can you imagine how exhausing it would be to push one of those things across no mans land?
Funny how this tank gun noise suppressor is mentioned because two rounds have gone of at foulness just watching it this far
25:56 i always wonder what were the engineers thinking when they created this
Me and the boys crossing no man’s land with our mobile shields in 1917
got da drip rifle
Please cover guerrilla warfare tactics used in history in a video
I wonder how often a periscope rifle was used- only to shoot at a dummy head? Epic video
Renal artery failure
I would like to point out that the concept of mobile shields is actually much, much older than your video states. The designs presented are just modern variations of the siege protections from the Medieval Era, using metal instead of wood for protection from bullets rather than arrows and rocks. Still weird though.
Which are just updates to the ancient civilisations. Fun fact, shields were invented before explosively propelled projectiles, by many millenia
Well yeh the Greek romans and Spartans all used shield formations to protect against enemy arrow fire
Fun Fact: The Kolibri mini pistol can be used in Battlefield 1.
Which is hilarious because it's completely incapable of killing anyone. There's legitimately more dangerous air rifles available.
@@andrewstiegel9730 one of the only way to get kills is to kill trash players by headshots on their back or flanks
@@Nero180 I've seen people take out tanks with it, surprisingly. Just set down a couple of anti-tank mines, shoot them with the kolibri, and they are dead
@@Nero180well you can hit him first with a SMLE III and finish the poor basterd off with the Kolibri + 30sec. T-bagging🥳🥳🥳
Something else to note about the drip rifle is that it wasn't the gun just on its own, it was also the ANZAC forces training the turkish troops to see a quiet trench as dangerous.
They would let a trench go quiet and seem abandonded before attacking and pushing back once the turks had entered or gotten near the trench. Over time this meant that focus was kept around the trenches with drip rifles firing and silent trenches avoided as a suspected trap. By the time the last rifles had fired, it still took several hours before the trenches were entered.
They even shipped supplies out with the troops and replaced them with empty crates to look like it was still supplied.
It was a huge deception and so it is said, not one life was lost during the retreat.
now imagine you’re a german soldier walking with your friend, only to be killed by a goddamn balloon tank
It should be noted that the Kolibri was never really designed to be a _military_ arm. I don't know _why_ it was designed, but its most applicable use would be a backup _backup_ pistol. Its 2.7mm ammunition would be _lucky_ to penetrate a typical coat of the period, let alone something as thick as an army greatcoat. To put this into stupid people terms, imagine getting hit with a pinecone being thrown by an MLB pitcher.
That would hurt. I once had 3 pinecones smack me in the face while my neighbor was mowing. He ran them over and they went flying and smacked me in the face. The first one hit me, then the next two as i was retreating. It was like they were homing pinecones. They hit a God damn moving target and in the same spot on my face. Didn't feel wonderful
“does anyone have any ammo?”
“I do”
“why are they so small”
“I think it’s above average”
@@SCP096. 💀
"You can't say there isn't any progress, we're always finding new ways of killing each other".
LOL THE KOLIBRI
The kolibri is the argument to "any gun is better than no gun in a gunfight ".
"You'll shoot your eye out, Kid"
The Colibri was NOT an Military Weapon. Just in Battlefield1 🤣
As someone who owns one of the rifles features here ( Standard issue, military serial number and all stamped on the butt of the rifle. Inherited it from my grandfather that got it from a friend's dad. Apparently brought it home with him from WW1. ) - I love knowing I have a piece of history hidden in a gun locker that I keep well oiled and all the parts well kept. Especially because they're all ORIGINAL WW1 PARTS.
I imagine you bring that up in any conversation you have.
That curve barrel gun is probably only piece of weird tec that is still use today under the name CornerShot. Difference is that it doesn't curve barrle but the gun is mounted on stock that can be turn 90 degree and holds small lcd monitor so you see where you are aiming.
rumor has it that hitler even ordered one with a 180-degree barrel for his own personal use.
I’m so skeptical the second I saw the shovel I was like yeah a child came up with that idea….
it's the definition of "sounds good on paper"
It sounds like it could have been experimented with and made more effective, especially with modern tech, but the end result would probably still be meh.
It's Canadian. Bless 'em. They tried their best.
ofc a woman designed that
@@nikoraasu6929 Wdym by that?
@@billybob8555 never faced warfare
Some of these aren't weird. The military needed a specific tool for a specific job. Others don't seem to be military in nature just things that existed during the war
18:45 no way!!! This rifle got drip boi! Look at that fancy drip!
Simple History can you do a video of The Worst Military Junta Dictators That Has Ever Lived.
A wise man once said, If it's stupid but it works, it ain't stupid.
If there are better, easier, and cheaper ways to accomplish the exact same thing - it's stupid. It would be like building a sundial to tell the time when you have a wristwatch on your wrist and a smartphone in your pocket. Sure it 'works' - but it's stupid and a waste of time.
The more I watch these the more I fall in love with bf1
2:02 Best weapon in bf1
My favorite sidearm 😁
My favorite Era of dumb military weapons has to be ww2. The pigeon bomb, anti-tank dogs, rc mini tanks, that weird rocket propelled axel that was meant to destroy barriers, and the infamous hot air balloon bomb to name a few
Honestly you're better of having an airsoft gun as self defense than the kolibri 😂
I was thinking about the 5 Joule SSG10 and giggled a little bit. 😂
"anti-tank scooter." That in and of itself is awesome
the name tank was actually originally a code name. before their invention the only tanks were like water tanks or gas tanks. which the military thought was boring enough nobody would get curious about them and the name stuck.
It would be cool to see a video about the Aztec Eagles!! The unsung Mexican pilots of Ww2!!
It would be cool to see a video about your mom
@@vandal1764 she is a strong lady with many great stories to tell. That would be a good video idea :-)!
You could do a video about a million obscure units..a far more interesting topic is how hitler tried to convince Mexico to invade the US
13:30
oh jesus christ
As a german im used to non german speakers to butcher our words (as we probably do with other languages aswell, im not implying that we are better, we're not)
But that one realy hurt deep in my soul
How do?
Mufflers and flash-suppressors would definitely be useful on modern vehicles.
I'm not sure how my car has lasted so long without a flash suppressor.
@@reliantncc1864 haha I mean military vehicles and on gun barrels during war. Of course much smaller than the ones in vid.
@@GeneralGayJay I'm being very sarcastic. I thought that was what you were doing, given the obvious uselessness of flash suppressors on modern military vehicles. Were you doing something else?
You have thought me quite a few things because without seeing the video I already knew all the things from the thumbnail! So thank you very much for that, I really love your videos!❤
Interesting solution for the curved barrel. Use round ball bullets instead of conical bullets.
Your mom has an interesting solution to the curved barrel
I wouldn't call the kolibri a military weapon, due to it being more a "hey I wanna see if I can actually do this, maybe I'll sell a few".
I also wouldn't call the tank surpressors as weird military weapons as they were more meant for keeping down noise complaints.
The video is very good, the historical knowledge about the war is good and easy to absorb. I hope the channel grows more and more🤗🤗🤗🤗
My team of super heroes used some odd weapons, such as “The Blame Thrower”, “Tornado In A Can”, “The Clothes Shrinker”, and we had an armored vehicle with a magnetic turret on top.
The clothes one could theoretically be lethal
@@Recentlyisekai89 yes to your bravery and self esteem
@@blacktemplar1139 true
@@Recentlyisekai89 Especially in the crotch region.
The canned tornado too, depending on where and how high it flung you.
I always wanted to see dummy heads used. I’m glad someone tried it.
Damn it i thought they were gonna fire the cannon from the vespa, its still kinda cool. I was really hoping to see a drive by of vespa shooting while moving and blowing up a tank.
Loved the guitar tapping during the section about the TAP. Nice
I love the mix of the old and new vids
My compliments for using the Ross Rifle in the McAdam's segment. This WWI Historian (and Canadian) approves!
The Problem with the shield was not that it was heavy from being made of steel. the PROTOTYPES were made of steel, all the ones that were produced were made of Tin or Aluminium, making them light enough to carry... but able to be pierced by ANYTHING and because they were made of light weight metal they couldn't even be used as shovels.
So the shield shovel was a shovel that couldn't shovel
And couldn't shield
2:03 The gun which makes you feels like a pro when you get a kill with it in Battlefield 1. No wonder it's such an OP weapon.
It is for sure a great handgun!!!🥳 Got 194 kills with it😁
Mobile shield invetors prsentation.
"its like a tank, with no engine, no wheels, and very weak armor"
"game set and match,. this war is going to be over"
3 foot pounds!? That’s incredible…… incredible underpowered. Even .22 CB’s (.22 shorts with no powder, they simply use the power generated by the primer) make 30-30ft/lbs of energy
32:08 Why is the enemy infantry at the bottom blinking at hypersonic speed? XD
I saw it too lmao
The Kolibri is almost non lethal, but I've been shot many times by airsoft BBs which have less than 1j of energy, but that already was enough to draw a bit of blood sometimes. I don't doubt the Kolibri could go into the skull and brain if it hit the eye.
Although even my air gun would be more lethal at 27j. I never want to be hit by that thing.
They damn well knew what they were doing when they designed the tank suppressor
A more appropriate title for this video would be "weird military equipment". Most of these aren't even weapons. Like the tank silencer wasn't used in combat but to lessen the sound of a tank's gun so it wouldn't disturb the nearby populace so much. And the Kolibri was a gimmick advertised for women to put on their purse and it wasn't better than a bb gun. Weird how they upgraded the quality of their videos since the t-34 episodes but resulted to recycling older videos that we already watched from other recycled videos.
When you watch this as a German you will laugh by the german words.
Loved the guitar solo blazing behind the Vespa bazooka presentation in this 😂
this quality is amazing
I love these videos
Can you imagine making a ton of dummy tanks to scare the enemy but they just send more tanks to attack.
The idea was to lure a majority of the enemy force away from the areas where the allies were preparing their real advances. So you would imagine how the enemy was thinking that they believed they made the winning move, only for the allies to show up out of nowhere.
The British army in WWII North Africa disguised supply trucks as tanks, but the also disguised tanks as supply trucks.
I want a periscope Rifle without even needing one it’s that cool
*i never heard about Vespa 150 Tap From France Army... Good Lord... What a Unknown History Out There!*
Smart idea. Don't think the hole in the shovel effected much.
Of course, if everyone was using the periscope rifles, there would not have been too many targets.
How do plastic bags of water... capture smoke or sound?
Vespa now used for rush hour traffic in Paris.
Try shoveling wet mud with a slotted spoon and you'll get an idea of how helpful a too-heavy shovel with a hole in it would be on the Western Front.
@@KraziEyevin well....dry soil I don't think it would make much difference, high clay content your not getting damp to wet earth off anything.
@@markgarin6355 read some firsthand accounts of the WW1 Western Front. Some places the mud was so wet if you fell in a shell crater you'd never make it out.
Plus, remember that this shovel is probably twice or three times as heavy as normal on the business end. It's going to seriously suck to swing it around.
@@KraziEyevin historically... entrenching tools were notoriously useless. In WWI the last while building miles of trenches....I wouldn't have one anywhere near me.
@@markgarin6355 I don't think you'd have much of a choice, between drafts and the penalties for insubordination.
How could you forget Project Pigeon. Actual pigeon guided bombs.
The more effective mobile shield would also be invented in WW1, tanks, although at the time they didn't see them as infantry support weapons. Curious how that goes, and a stark contrast to later doctrines.
Here's the thing with the shields - YOU NEED A HAND TO CYCLE THE BOLT!
You can really see the evolution of the animation quality