Along with the Bouncing Bomb, The S.A.S, Computers, Radar and any number of other Kerazy secret military inventions that have since become standard, the British also came up with a few..less successful..ideas during WWII. This weekend, to coincide with the 65th anniversary of D-Day, at least one made a comeback (no, not the cardboard army – wiki it!), behold..The Great PanJanDrum!!!
Filled with 400lbs of Hi-Ex, this self-propelled firecracker barrel was designed to cross beaches under it’s own power, before blowing a bloody great hole in Germany’s Atlantic coast defenses. Unfortunately, it turned out to be far more likely to roll the wrong way, or just blow up in the face of whoever launched it.
Fortunately the jet engine worked a little better.
