Discussion Main / RecursiveAmmo

"The military once experimented with a bomb that opened up to reveal... a swarm of bats. Little kamikaze bats with little incendiary bombs strapped to them. The idea was to drop these over Japan — most Japanese buildings being mainly made of wood. By the morning bats roost on or near important buildings, then timed bombs go off. There was a little incident where the bats escaped and took refuge in buildings all across the military base where they were held, caused some hefty damage. The Atomic Bomb was more expensive, but it was finished first and didn't accidentally go off on a friendly base, so the batty project quickly fell into obscurity."

I came across a tale in one history of weird warfare book that part of the problems was one of the loose armed bats landed in/on a car. That happened to belong to a Very Important Official who was visiting the base. The project was apparently canceled very shortly after his visit.

I don't see why Combattler V's example has a pothole to Funetik Aksent, as all written Japanese text of foreign loan words would count as an example due to how the scripts work.

Unless, of course, it's based apon the English version's text or is spoken (even then, the Japanese can legitimatly pronounce like that).

... Nevermind. Now, how do I delete this post?

RL data:

These devices have a lot of controversy around them in real life. The reasoning is much like the movement to ban antipersonnel mines, the probability that unexploded, small munitions will maim or kill civilians both during and after the conflicts in which they are used. An international treaty is now in effect to ban air-dropped cluster munitions, and a large number of industrialized nations are signatories, but the biggest military powers (US, Russia, China, Israel) have rejected it.