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Continuing the Whatziss

By The Armorer on September 25, 2007 | | Comments (11)

Okay, another component.

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And some context.

All the bits and pieces are from the same piece of kit.

Wonder what's going on? Start here, then go here.

Oh, you guys are no fun at *all* today. Here. See if this helps.

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By Eric Wilner on September 25, 2007 10:26 AM
Ah, the little round button at top! The glaive-like thing is most of the blade of an Austro-Hungarian maple-seed bomb, or aerial scythe, circa 1917. The little round button fastened the blade to the top of the bomb. Dropped from an airplane, these little gizmos would whirl madly while descending slowly; even those that failed to explode could inflict terrible damage on anyone too slow to get out of the way.
 
By John of Argghhh! on September 25, 2007 11:01 AM
Eric - while I assume your answer is tongue-in-cheek (gimme a link, if ya can, if it isn't T-I-C) is much closer than he realizes.
 
By Eric Wilner on September 25, 2007 11:49 AM
What, you want me to document my hallucinations? OK. There's no source for this online, but I'm hallucinating a dusty old book, with pages hand-sewn into a cardboard cover. The title is Aerial Weapons of the Great War, and the authors are Arthur Johnson and David Smythe. Copyright date is 1924. The pages are brittle with age; this wasn't the finest paper to begin with. It details many of these weapons, generally with drawings of recovered fragments, detailed drawings of the complete weapon, and rather fanciful illustrations of usage. You won't find this at your local library, as there's only one copy, and that's inside my head. However, Halbritter's Arms Through the Ages is nearly as good a technical reference.
 
By John of Argghhh! on September 25, 2007 11:55 AM
I've got Halbritter's... I'll hafta dig it out.
 
By MajMike on September 25, 2007 3:35 PM
Tempest hardened shuttlecock for international badminton?
 
By Eric Wilner on September 25, 2007 3:59 PM
Shuttlecock? Hmmm... is this a weapon used by some variant of the Krikkit Robots?
 
By John of Argghhh! on September 25, 2007 4:10 PM
Eric gets a +10 for a quasi-relevant Douglas Adams Geek Factoid!
 
By BillT on September 25, 2007 7:45 PM
Lawn dart badly in need of honing. Those stabilizers would have rattled around in the MAD chute. The noise would have seriously compromised the mission. Yeah, like, you're gonna *sneak* up on somebody in a Huey...
 
By mullah cimoc on September 25, 2007 10:04 PM
mullah cimoc say iran president so harm him neocon spy in whitehouse and pentagon when muslim need teaching christian to reading him bible for learn that bible forbidding him homosexual. this the irony when usa people to wake up from stupification because one speaking by iran pres. benjamin frankling so happy now if him ameriki to destroying israei spy net in usa media, university and government run by him master in tel aviv. this big loss for mossad. this big victory for ameriki people and for freedom of press. when usa people stop pay the tribute money for masters in tel aviv then israeli to be destroy. {Whoa, Cimoc, slow down on the expresso's, baby!]
 
By kat-missouri on September 25, 2007 10:21 PM
Maybe I am just getting it, but isn't "cimoc" "comic" spelled backwards? I always did think this guy was crazy.
 
By afsister on September 26, 2007 12:14 AM
Anyone for a game of lawn darts?