Secret Strobelight Weapons of World War II

[tonyny]

It might have been the greatest lost weapon of World War II. Major-General JFC Fuller, the man credited with developing modern armored warfare in the 1920's, called failure to use it "the greatest blunder of the whole war." He even suggested that British and American tank divisions could have overrun Germany before the Russians if it had been deployed.


http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/05/wwii-strobe-t-1.html

 

[StuGatz]

Very interesting... Thanks. :thumbsup:

 

[Patriot]

I've kept skipping by this because I was too antsy to read it all, but it was a good article. I think that there were certain assumptions made such as all of the tanks being able to fight line abreast at a predetermined spread. This concept could really be effected by terrain or minefields but in theory it sounds interesting. Thanks for the post.

 

[loneranger]

Interesting, but I'm sure there are other factors that might have reduced their effectiveness: smoke, terrain, land mines, enemy artillery barrage, etc.

 

[baterija]

Glad this popped back up. Forgot to go back and read it before. Interesting read and an interesting technology. Seems to be decidely overstated on it's potential usefulness. The tactics to use them seem to come with other weaknesses if they don't live up to expectations. Might have been very effective in the right terrain once. Just in the couple minutes of reading I came up with a number of ideas that would have made trying it a second time decidely hazardous to the force employing them.