Top Secret Nazi U-Boat

[Dominicrigg]

Did you know that in his infinate wisdom Hitler commisioned a U-boat to be made entirely from cheese.

Its strengths were unmatched, it was naturally bouyant, and absorbed sonar pings and radar making it invisible to the enemy. Also if the crew were low on provisions they could eat "non essential" pieces of equipment to keep them sustained.

Even the cheesy smell didnt matter the the crew "its better then Lothars feet." commented one grinning crewman on the ships maiden voyage.

Unfortunatly Hitlers choice of cheese wasnt the best, and as they were bombed by a lancaster bomber loaded with crackers they crash dived never to be seen again. Swiss cheese was surely a terrible choice...

Extracts from Hitlers weapons of cheesy destruction by Michel Rochfort

[TASKFORCE1x1]

The new years hangovers have long effects I see http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[Dominicrigg]

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[SailorSteve]

Excellent, Domicrigg! http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/88.gif

You actually had me going for a minute.

[blue_76]

must've been the rat-charges that got'er

[DerKomet]

Now talking more seriously, wasn't there a british project on building some kind of ship made of ice?

(maybe they remembered how a chunk of ice easily sunnk titanic, so they gave it military use ;D )

[Paul_K]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by DerKomet:
Now talking more seriously, wasn't there a british project on building some kind of ship made of ice?

(maybe they remembered how a chunk of ice easily sunnk titanic, so they gave it military use ;D ) <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Your talking about Project Habbakuk, a proposed huge aircraft carrier ( more a floating island in reality ) made of Pykrete, a composite material made of 14% wood pulp and ice. It was intended to close the mid-Atlantic air gap, but CVEs and VLR Liberators took care of the problem before Habbakuk was developed any further.

[U-551 Kapitan]

Hey! I heard about that carrier! The first thing on these forums that I already actually know. http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Dominicrigg]

Ohh yes there were lots of wacky ideas that were thrown about by the british. But i think most of them were just at the think tank stage, you know where they sit around a table and brain storm. Just some seem to have been recorded and are quite funny.

Two i can remember were :

Using radar as a death ray to melt german aircraft or kill their pilots in the seats... (though maybe this isnt so stupid as they didnt really know the ins and outs of radar)

and my favourite :

Freezing clouds and mounting machine guns and anti aircraft guns on them... Now which boffin thought of that and conveniently forgot about gravity...

[Messervy]

....should go up there himself and give it a try laden with heavy Vickers. http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[radsov]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Dominicrigg:

Using radar as a death ray to melt german aircraft or kill their pilots in the seats... (though maybe this isnt so stupid as they didnt really know the ins and outs of radar) <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I think (but not entirely sure) that they did go beyond the think tank stage on this one and invited the boffins to come up with something that worked. The first basic test they had to pass was to be able to kill a sheep at x feet from the machine. It may not be as daft as it sounds today as they had noticed some bird deaths near to powerful microwave transmitters. The principle would be the same as how your microwave oven works (you wouldn't want to put your hand in one of them whilst it was working would you http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-surprised.gif). Unfortunatly Radio wave energy dissapates rapidly on leaving the source by an exponential amount, so the energy in it is soon too little to harm physically.

[U-551 Kapitan]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by radsov:
The principle would be the same as how your microwave oven works (you wouldn't want to put your hand in one of them whilst it was working would you http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-surprised.gif). <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

That sounds like a challenge!
(the hammer smilie will have to do as there are no microwave smilies about)

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Ow.