Summary: Necessity is the mother of invention so it's often during war that the most amazing contrivances are developed... and some of the most ridiculous. This is a look at a few of the less successful wartime inventions!<br> <br> <br> <br> The Bat Bomb.<br> <br> <br> <br> During testing, a few bats escaped and disaster followed!<br> <br> <br> <br> A slab of Pykrete with a bullet mark.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> The proposed Pykrete aircraft carrier.<br> <br> <br> <br> The Bat guided bomb used in Project Pigeon.<br> <br> <br> <br> The Fu-Go hydrogen balloon bomb.<br> <br> <br> <br> A Fu-Go balloon found near Bigelow, Kansas on February 23, 1945.<br> <br> <br> <br> A rendition of the proposed Nazi Sun Gun.<br> <br> <br> <br> Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to US Army, US Gov, USAF, CyranoDeWikipedia, Teramatt, US National Archives, and the US Navy Archives.
