Sneaky Weapons of the Past

There are a lot of ways to win a battle at different levels, but the most effective methods involve some kind of surprise and deception. Sneak attacks go back as far as war itself, and since then man has always come up with a lot of weapons designed to deliver damage without getting caught.
In this list, we’re going to take a look at some of the coolest, scariest, and most notorious sneak attack weapons in history, focusing on attack weapons – not traps or ambush tactics.
This list of stealth weapons is meant to take out a single target in silence or wipe out whole contents in a global doomsday scenario.
Say what you will about the tactics, but one things for sure: these sneak attack weapons is not about fighting fair.

Horton HO 299 "Bat"
It's hard to believe, but this incredibly modern-looking stealth aircraft was captured by the Allies from Germany after WWII. Recently confirmed to have been built specifically for radar stealth using all-wood construction and radar-absorbing carbon glue, the crazy-fast jet-powered “Bat” never saw action.

Das U-Boat
While another, very singular U-Boat makes this list on the basis of its revolutionary stealth technology, U-Boats in general were regarded at the time as one of the most dastardly sneak attack weapons ever devised. When Hitler’s “wolf packs” first began roaming the Atlantic, there was a strong movement in the naval community to make summary execution of all submariner “spies” part of the Geneva convention.

Poison Gun Umbrella
Among followers of shadow wars and spy games, this KGB killing tool has reached almost mythical proportions. Using compressed air to fire a tiny pellet of ricin toxin into its victim, the umbrella gun silently stung like a bee made of doom. Its most notable victim was Bulgarian journalist Georgi Markov, though likely nobody short of Vladimir Putin truly knows the umbrella gun’s final body count. Read the rest of this sneaky weapons here.

...or wipe out whole contents...

Am Shooting Journal might needs an editor? Contents, or maybe continents?

Or pull a school marm from a nursing home and let them abuse today's writers?

2 posted on 09/04/2018 5:23:28 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)

Sources: IMDB, Ranker, Wikipedia, Richard Rowe

How I tire of today's “researchers”.

At least I saw a pic of the Krummlauf barrel attachment for the Sturmgewehr 44 rifle.

3 posted on 09/04/2018 5:32:03 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)

https://youtu.be/gXP-6jkdOD4

A documentary on the Horton 229

4 posted on 09/04/2018 5:40:32 AM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)

The “the Who me” of the OSS ;-) .

5 posted on 09/04/2018 12:50:17 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (Treason is the reason for Democrat Sedition & Subversion)

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