
Iron Man 2 comes out on DVD today and in honor of Terrence Howard’s Don Cheadle’s character War Machine, here are 25 machines of war that were actually built, or at least someone considered building them at some point. You should never own any of these things.
























That Battle Zeppelin looks awesome.
I feel like one or two of those were actually used, like the blimps low to the ground, that was to confuse and ward off bombings,
Er… WAR usually implies blowing shit up and most of those “machines” aren’t even equipped with any form of artillery, and the rest are pure figments of geeky fiction. FAAAAAAAAAAIL!
3, 4 and 16 have served a usefull purpose in ww2. 3 is a remote controlled mine called Goliath, and the predecessor to the modern warrobot. 4 is a long range artillery or mortar,and the last one is a railroad artillery piece, similar to the german Paris Gun, though in smaller scale.
But yes, some of those machines are ridiculous. But if they worked, they would have been engineering marvels.