Seven abandoned military secret weapons projects

New Delhi: Nations and governments spend huge amounts to have better weapons. As a result many countries have produced dozens of deadly efficient weapons.The reason for producing these weapons is the arms race on order to become more powerful than the others.Here is a list of seven abandoned military secret weapon projects: Iceberg Aircraft Carrier A plan, Project Habakkuk was developed in the World War II by Britain. Britishers thought to build an aircraft out of a mixture of wood pulp and ice (pykrete). The idea was dropped as they realized that it would not work as they want it to.The Thunder screech or XF-84H aircraftXF-84H was an experimental turboprop aircraft, the XF-84H was powered by a a turbine engine that was mated to a supersonic propeller. But due to the noise that the aircraft caused from its engines which could be heard 25 miles away while starting up and caused severe nausea and blowing out eardrums to the ground crew, led to its cancellation.Lunar Nuclear Bomb United states decided to blow up the moon in order to enhance the public morale after the Soviet Union's early lead in the space race. The project was called 119-A, however it was never carried out as they realized that having a man on the moon is far better than to try and annihilate it.Intruder from the Future or B-70 Valkyrie The B-70 Valkyrie was supposed to be the aviation dream from the future, but while it was developed, the improvements of high-altitude surface-to-air missiles, the change to low-level penetration bombing, the program's high development costs, and the introduction of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBMs) led to the cancellation of the B-70 program in 1961.The Un-landable Plane The US government wanted fighters on all their ships instead of having an aircraft take off only from carriers. The XFV Salmon plane was made with landing gear on its tail. But since the pilots couldn't land backwards on the ship and that the jet was much slower than other contemporary fighters and was far too complicated to fly, the idea of having fighter jets on every ship was dropped.The Flying Dorito It was an all-weather, carrier-based stealth bomber replacement for the Grumman A-6 Intruder in the United States Navy and Marine Corps.It is also known as A-12 Avenger II. However due to the troubled cost for the overruns, the project was dropped in 1991 after wasting more than 5 billion dollars.Soviet Doomsday Device Former high-ranking members of the Soviet military and the Central Committee of the Communist Party in a series of interviews to the American defense contractor BDM admitted the existence of the Dead Hand in the early 1990s. Although there were contradictory statements concerning its deployment but for all we know it is possibly still a fully operational nuclear- control system that can automatically trigger the launch of the Russian Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) if a nuclear strike is detected by seismic, light, radioactivity and overpressure sensors, creating a fail-deadly deterrence.

Seven abandoned military secret weapons projects

New Delhi: Nations and governments spend huge amounts to have better weapons. As a result many countries have produced dozens of deadly efficient weapons.The reason for producing these weapons is the arms race on order

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