At all times people have tried to make an impression, especially on their sworn enemies. They did it in different ways, for example by spreading rumors about the miraculous super - weapons they allegedly planned to produce.
The Spartans wore his men in a red cloak, which was not visible blood, and it earned them a reputation as invincible warriors. Huge storm caused terror in the tower of the besiegers, and forced them to surrender. Mongolian horsemen who invaded Russia, wearing Chinese silk and carrying a precious Chinese weapons were taken by Russian soldiers as heroes.
Parades, magnificent form, photos of monstrous cannons in magazines and relevant articles in the late 19th and early 20th century became a powerful weapon of influence on the minds of mankind. The dissemination of such information, although not always reliable, often gave the country a moral, and therefore political superiority adversary ("we are the best because we have a talented and strong").
For example, such was the "destroyer of the trenches," which appeared in the US on the cover of the popular magazine "Electrical Experimenter" in February 1917. Author likely to come up with it under the influence of the Ferris wheel, which he saw at the fair or amusement park, or perhaps in the first exhibition of agricultural wheeled tractors. However, his car was just amazing: the maximum offensive power at the maximum protection of the crew.
However, he did not think about how this machine will move around the battlefield, or the team will produce the shots from the cabin, swaying on the Ferris wheel. But this picture magazines were quickly sold out, and the efforts of the artist, of course, have been rewarded. In addition, people were convinced that the United States lives in a large number of capable engineers, they believed in their country.
Back in 1905 in Germany, it was registered a patent for an armored tank in the form of a ball with a side tab for the guns and machine guns. But it has never and did not. However, the idea was seriously discussed in the American magazine Popular Science in 1936. In accordance with this project, the tank was to consist of a fixed inner sphere and the exterior of the two rotating hemispheres with special "lugs".
The tank's armament consisted of three guns, one looking ahead, the second - in the tower at the end of the hemispheres, and the third - the zenith. The engine exhaust is in the space between the shells, while, instead of ventilation inside "tank" quite seriously planned to place oxygen cylinders. However, at first glance, the tank in the picture looked quite workable, and again emerged the idea that taxpayers do not give money to the state for nothing.Once the engineers began to "work" on such projects, it seemed that the US does not problems.
However, all these projects have been worse than the "electric tank", which supposedly was designed in 1935 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. To move on the road, it had wheels, but when moving over rough terrain for some reason the designers chose the screws. This fact alone should have alerted people, because before that a single tank, move the screw has not been put into operation. But in this way the tank looked more impressive.
But what is more interesting, "tank" impress with their weapons. It was not an ordinary flamethrower, and a generator of electric charges Van de Graaf.
Inside the cabin of the ball was the individual in possession of a special tank was a large amount of water. When the water flow is directed to the enemy as soon as it has been treated with artificial lightning bolt, force hundreds of millions of volts of electricity, he instantly burned it. Other members of the crew were distracted by managing a diesel engine "super - the tank." Van de Graaf generator is able to create a capacity of seven million volts. It is certainly impressive size, but engineers have not been able to expand the range of the jet, which prevented the build tank.
The magazine Popular Science wrote in 1940: "In Los Angeles, was built an experimental model of a giant armored vehicle armed with two six-inch guns, built-in rotating armored" tower ". This" machine "is equipped with thick armor to protect them from shells and bombs. Special efforts They were attached to protect the machine. Its specially designed tires can move at a speed of about 105 kilometers per hour. During the shooting of "tower" interact with the ground by means of hydraulic supports. Furthermore, in addition to six-inch guns, the machine is equipped with even a machine gun. It was tested army the United States for four months. "
Checked, but without success, despite the fact that all the fighting qualities of this "super-tank" were wonderful. But in fact, nothing of the sort existed, because at this level of military equipment in those days was not yet developed.However, trusting readers of that time thought it was possible. They thought that the United States, as the most advanced automotive power in the world can build any military vehicle.
It is interesting that the same principle used by the US media to present a program of Reagan's "Star Wars" frightening people "binary gas neutron bomb" and other horrors, which in the end turned out to be false. It seems that the binary munitions were designed simply to increase the shelf life and more to ensure the safety of their troops. In addition, chemical weapons were later banned.
The "Star Wars" could not be realized, because even in the implementation of all its components, part of the launch into space blocks would destroy the ozone layer over the entire United States. "Neutron bomb" - a conventional anti-tank vehicle, now deprived of an appropriate carrier. This means that nothing that for many decades the Americans threatened the world, did not exist in reality. However, the people were afraid, and a lot of money from the state budget was spent on something to support this fear.
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