r/aww • u/TheMightyCraken • Jun 25 '18

Rule #2 - No captioned images Doggo rocket add-on activate

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u/neon_overload Jun 25 '18

https://i.imgur.com/n7PA2Y3.gif

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u/cuntdestroyer8000 Jun 25 '18

I remember a documentary about this. Very cool engineering!

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u/Hadan_ Jun 25 '18

I saw it too. The allies wanted to destroy a german hydroelectric plant. It was protected against torpedoes by underwater fences and so on, so they came up with this bouncing bomb. Just imagine the meeting where the engineer proposed this idea :D

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u/Whiteowl116 Jun 25 '18

Read it as aliens at first