|  Panzer Grenadier
Secret Weapons
Science
fiction became reality during the Second
World War, as scientists and engineers labored
madly to bring bizarre new weapons to the
battlefield. Secret
Weapons is a 64-page
book supplement to the Panzer
Grenadier series,
looking at some of these laboratory products — all
of which existed at least on the drawing
board, and many of which actually saw service.
Origins Award winning author John R. Phythyon
Jr. tells of odd programs like Germany's
super-heavy tanks — vehicles like the
180-ton Maus tank and the equally huge Tiger
III. None of those actually saw combat, but
the world's first anti-tank guided missile,
the German X7, apparently did.
Britain's huge tanks are also covered, with
the slow and heavy Tortoise and the slow
and heavy Black Prince. And there's the awesome
Centurion, a design so solid it remains in
service in some of the world's armies more
than six decades later.
  
Plus we have flying machines. There are
German Fl.282 helicopters (in three versions),
Fa.223 helicopters (also in three versions)
and the huge Fa.284 helicopter. Plus the
P.1003 tilt-rotor aircraft, ancestor of the
modern-day Osprey. Finally, German jets make
an appearance to lend close support, including
the Me.1099 attack plane fitted with a 55mm
automatic cannon.
  
And there's more. The Americans get their
Sikorsky R4 reconnaissance helicopter, while
the Japanese receive the Ka-1 autogyro. For
every Panzer
Grenadier fan who's asked for
weird science, this is exactly what you've
wanted.
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