The DUMBEST secret weapons of WW2 #history

Pigeons, dead rats, a ship made of ice, a rocket wheel and bats: five real WW2 secret weapons that only ever hurt their own side. Sources - Bat bombs (Project X-Ray, 1942-44; the Carlsbad fire of 15 May 1943; cancelled by Admiral King): C. V. Glines, "The Bat Bombers", Air Force Magazine, Oct 1990: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/1090bats/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb - The pigeon-guided missile (Project Pigeon / Orcon): B. F. Skinner, "Pigeons in a Pelican", American Psychologist (1960); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon; the 2024 Ig Nobel Peace Prize: https://improbable.com/ig/winners/ - The Great Panjandrum (Westward Ho!, 1943-44): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjandrum; https://westwardhohistory.co.uk/war-years/ - Habbakuk, the ice aircraft carrier, and the Quebec pistol shot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk - SOE's exploding rats (1941): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_rat; the SOE file is HS 7/49 at The National Archives, Kew Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/): "Marty Gots a Plan", "Monkeys Spinning Monkeys", "Amazing Plan", "Fluffing a Duck". Sound effects: Kenney (kenney.nl) and Freesound contributors (CC0).