Does anybody know the most bizarre WW2 British experimental weapons and research?
I don’t honestly know any that would be considered bizarre, but downright bloody stupid covers this one. Scientist from Porton Down release anthrax onto an uninhabited Scottish island to test the effects on animals. Lucky old sheep, in this case, along with rabbits and assorted ground living birds. Of course, this was highly effective and killed absolutely everything. But there was no antidote at the time, so when a dead sheep fell off the island and washed up across the bay right outside the local HQ there was what you might call a mild panic…. But that’s not why it got binned. No antidote wasn’t really a problem as it was only going to land on Germans… until someone pointed out the small issue of wind and the fact that it would only take a slight puff of it to send enough spores back onto our troops to wipe out thousands of men. I’m sure I read one about putting explosives on sheep and herding them towards tanks, but I reckon there’s an urban myth attached to that one somewhere a
