🔥🦇💥 The Most Batty Bomb of WW II 🦇 💥 🔥
A few days ago I blogged about the first"smart" bomb developed during World War II..a bomb not guided by advanced electronics but instead live trained pigeons 😬😢
But that's not the only crazy and creative bomb Allies came up during the same era. There was an equally ingenious bomb developed by the Americans that would make it ideal for striking Japan, where most structures were made of wood and other flammable materials. And if it wasn't for the nuclear bomb chances are it would have seen some if not plenty of action.
Meet the Bat Bomb:
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Looks like a regular old bomb if you ask me. But as the name implies, it's not.
The bomb is more like a canister that was supposed to carry hundreds of live hibernating bats which in turn carried small incendiary bombs with a timer.
The bombs would be dropped at dawn, the casing would deploy a parachute and the bats would be freed.
Then the hope was that the bats would follow their instincts, with many roosting in the wooden attics and eaves of the Japanese cities.
Then the timer would go off and each bat carrying a small amount of napalm would go BOOM 💥 resulting in thousands and thousands of simultaneous fires. Good luck dealing with the ensuing chaos!
Codenamed X-Ray, the bat bomb gave some really promising results during development..
The National Defense Research Committee observer stated: "It was concluded that X-Ray is an effective weapon."
The chief chemist's report stated that, on a weight basis, X-Ray was more effective than the standard incendiary bombs in use at the time: "Expressed in another way, the regular bombs would give probably 167 to 400 fires per bomb load where X-Ray would give 3,625 to 4,748 fires." sauce
However, the weapon didn't get to see any real action as it was moving a bit slowly and was expected to be ready for real action by mid 1945.. That and the atomic bomb was put to use to finish the war quickly.
Good news for the bats. Not so good for the Japs!
And that's the quick run down of the Bat Bomb. Here's a link to Wikipedia if you'd like to read more on this truly.. fascinating project!
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It's good that they didn't come up with bombs controlled by jerboas, that would have been very scary :)
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Yes, but for those who met a fighting jerboa on their way... it's no laughing matter :)
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Finally the bat bomb! One of my favorite bombs of all time. Had they continued to develop it all the lives lost in Hiroshima and Nagasaki might have been spared. These days it would be inhumane to strap some napalm to bats, but back then no one had a problem with it!
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Well dunno about the lives but at least there would be no radiation and its effects.
They would have had time to get out of the house for the most part, napalm doesn't really explode as much as it just burns. Back then there weren't smoke detectors, so that would have been a problem. But Hiroshima still has some ten times the radioactivity above the normal background levels. Nukes are nasty business!
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That actually sounds like it could’ve worked pretty well.
Yes it was in the final stages but the atomic bomb was used otherwise it probably would have seen some action!
There were a ton of crazy weapons during ww2
Oh yes, lots of projects in my to blog bucket list lol
This sounds like something from a cartoon, but it's real life.
Yes 😂😂
I am curious to see the success rate of these methods haha
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Damn bro those bat bombs sound like something straight out of a movie Batman movie 😂😂😂It's incredible how creative humans can be, even in the midst of war.
We are fun creatures 😢😂
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look what an interesting read i didn't knew that they used bats to carry bombs, what a evil!
First pigeons, now bats. It's kind of crazy but I am glad that the plan didn't go off. Otherwise we would see a lot of dead bats but I guess the bombs would go out during night as they are nocturnal.
I think it's a blessing in disguise for the bats that the atomic bomb is developed. But, not for us humans.😌