How do you improve the millions of weapons of war that we've come to know throughout history? Do you perhaps create bullets that can be loaded into magazines to move away from single shot muskets and rifles? Would you instead create a massive tube and fill it with the biggest lead ball you can find to create a cannon and do away with catapults? Perhaps you would instead strap a massive bomb to the underbelly of a crop duster and create a bomber plane to hit targets well behind enemy lines? Well no matter which option you picked here you're wrong! As these investors show, the best improvements to any weapon of war is to create some of the wackiest concepts known to man!
From a crane designed to pick up and drop Roman ships like a claw machine in an arcade, to the very rockets that inspired the national anthem of the USA that originated in India, and strapping a jet engine to a propeller aircraft in the hopes of creating a plane that can break the sound barrier, the world is full of some absolutely wacky weapons of war. So join Arron this week as the takes the gang through 10 weapons of war that didn't exactly shape history but are so crazy in either design or concept that they're sure to leave you scratching your head.
This episode was presented by Arron Keegan and joined by Hayley O'Connor and Conor Daly. The intro and outro music - Strollin' Along - was recorded by David Renda. Make sure to follow us on our social media pages! Just search for "That's Old News" on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter/X!
(00:00) Intro
(02:00) The Shewee Gift
(05:58) Dorothy Thompson's Review of Mein Kampf
(13:05) Archimedes' Claw
(21:42) The Kpinga
(30:50) Puckle Gun
(39:30) Nock Gun
(50:42) Mysorean Rockets
(58:11) The Drip Rifle
(01:08:01) The Kettering Bug
(01:13:01) Bat Bombs
(01:20:53) Soviet Anti-Tank Dogs
(01:29:29) Republic XF84H Thunderscreech
(01:38:38) Post-show banter
