Comments on: Violet Club

By: Alan Badgery

Alan Badgery — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 19:51:06 +0000

So Violet Cub was a bomb in its own right? but having searched there are no images of it. Was it then, whats called the physics package, to be installed in Red Beard?

By: Smurf

Smurf — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 20:01:55 +0000

I echo this Yay!

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 19:18:04 +0000

As I said below I find the science behind weapons in general pretty interesting, but I don’t like talking about it because it might give people the wrong impression about me; the science is cool but the weapons themselves are definitely not cool, and so ridiculing the stupid ones is about as close as I’m willing to get.

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 19:14:17 +0000

Love to, but tracking them down is a bit of a pain and I don’t want the science posts to get too much into military fetishism – I find the ingenuity (or stupidity) behind weapons systems to be fascinating and they’re responsible for driving forward science in several fields, but past my default cynical overtones I loathe everything that they’re intended to do. That being said I’ll probably write at least one more like this soon.

By: everblue

everblue — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 11:03:25 +0000

Is that right though? According to Mr Fuch’s Wikipedia page it is thought he started working for the USSR relatively early during the second world war (late 1942), so unless he envisaged the Cold War at that time it’s difficult to see him as anything other than a communist who was driven by ideology.

Wikipedia may be wrong or misleading however, but I’m just interested if you have an alternative perspective.

By: Oli Hutt

Oli Hutt — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 14:30:08 +0000

Yay for more science posts!

By: ilitarist

ilitarist — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 12:42:06 +0000

I was joking, of course. Thought who knows – perhaps if USSR was too slow to catch up we’d have real WW3 as, I suspect, Klaus had feared.

Are useless impractical weapons your favorite subject? Previous science post was about kinetic bombardment.

By: lifeofzenith

lifeofzenith — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 15:21:40 +0000

Fascinating read indeed!

Could you write more like these? ie. British hiccups in development of weapons systems?

By: everblue

everblue — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:15:49 +0000

I enjoyed this. Thank you.

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 13:28:12 +0000

I meant in the context of it being unfortunate (and very embarrassing) for the British government of the time.