Big battle tank 2 hacked1/6/2024 The British had Hobart’s Funnies as well as less successful entries like the Panjandrum - a ten-foot rocket-driven wheel of explosives. Everyone was working on a nuclear bomb, of course. ![]() The Germans worked on Wunderwaffe, including guided missiles, jets, suborbital rocket bombers, and a solar-powered space mirror to burn terrestrial targets. But we aren’t working on anything - that we know of - as revolutionary as a rocket, an atomic bomb, or even radar was back in the 1940s. Sure, we develop better planes, tanks, submarines, and guns. A Churchill Bullshorn plough for clearning minefields - one of Hobart’s “Funnies” Another defining factor is that it doesn’t seem we seek out superweapons anymore. ![]() Nor could you dig tunnels right under your captor’s nose. You can’t sneak a fleet of ships across the oceans anymore. Historians may note that World War II was the last great “movie war.” In those days, you could do many things that are impossible today, yet make for great movie drama.
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