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One of the things that I find so fascinating about world war II is all the crazy and innovating ideas that both sides came up with to turn the tide of war.
I have blogged about some in the past, like the bat (literally) bomb and Project Pigeon.
Now, the thing I want to talk about came a bit later in the 50s and it remained a concept that never saw any real development.
And much like the two projects I linked above it involved the use of live animals, in this case.. chickens πππ£
The concept was so crazy and ridiculous that many thought it was an April's fool joke when it was declassified on 1 April 2004.
Anyways, let's take it from the start.
The project name was Blue Peacock, renamed from Blue Bunny and originally Brown Bunny.
Tldr, it was a British tactical nuclear weapon project aiming to store a number of ten-kiloton nuclear land mines in Germany.
The purpose? Simple. Go boom in the case of a Soviet invasion from the east.
One of the major issues faced as that the electronics in the mine required heating to function during the winter cold. And one of proposed solutions was...chickens πππ
Yes. Chickens.
One proposal suggested that live chickens would be sealed inside the casing, with a supply of food and water. They would remain alive for approximately a week. Their body heat would apparently have been sufficient to keep the mine's components at a working temperature. source
I guess they hadn't heard of AC ππππ
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War time solutions can be so nuts, I wonder how much insane stuff they came up with that never got out to the public.
Heh, I guess we will never know πππ
I dunno...
I feel they were too quick to decide this oneπππ
It just might've workedππ
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Chickens to generate enough heat? I guess they were quite desperate.
Yes ππ
a Chicken heated Bomb, LOL never hear dof that but somehow it doesnt surprise me
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I want the chicken breast! (or thighs) πππ€ BOOM!!
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Chicken heated, nothing quite like it! You too can heat your home for a week with chickens!
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Life hack πππ
We can use chickens to conquer the world?
Emus are big chickens and won Australia so....
Thatβs ridiculous. The things they tried in the old days was ridiculous
I bet you have some fond memories sir
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Someone must have even got founds to study this... A chicken a week for a whole field, imagine... Lol
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I read somewhere else about using dolphins for military purposes. Chickens, for their body heat are wild though, lol.
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