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03-18-17, 02:04 PM | #11 | |
Machinist's Mate
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There was some weird ass **** they came up with in the 1920s, actually quite a bit into the 1940s too . . . There was a web page I found years ago through one of my WWII game communities that I've lost the link to. It had a series of "fanciful" parody WWII technologies for each nation, each one meant to reflect the fanciful notions that each nation seemed to entertain in engineering and operational doctrine. So for example, the Japanese tech was a bicycle powered balloon lofted "bomber" that had a basket with either bombs or rabid dogs underneath. The Soviet one was this enormous bomber with like 12 engines, etc., Wish I could find that stuff. This Surcouf thing seems pretty good as an analogy of French interwar fantasies, sort of a Jules Verne thing
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