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Non-Wargaming Discussion => Fun Stuff => Topic started by: Panzer-Kalle on 06 July 2017, 06:19:26 AM

Title: What´s that?
Post by: Panzer-Kalle on 06 July 2017, 06:19:26 AM
Found in the Swiss Army Regulations ( valid until 1995):

"Selfreproducing small flying object on organic base with tight programmed automatic return from any direction and distance."

What is that? :-

Cheers Kalle
Title: Re: What´s that?
Post by: Panzer-Kalle on 06 July 2017, 06:21:01 AM
 ;D
Title: Re: What´s that?
Post by: fsn on 06 July 2017, 07:03:41 AM
My first thought was a boomarang ... no, my second though was a boomarang, my first thought was "I wonder if Milday can do that thing my ex-wife used to do?", but let's not go into that - Milady's capacity with a skillet is not something fit for the lower forms of life like myself to contemplate - anyway my third thought was some kind of flying insect.

Unless it's those organic homing bullets the Swiss army tested in 1989.
Title: Re: What´s that?
Post by: petercooman on 06 July 2017, 07:10:18 AM
Messenger pigeon?
Title: Re: What´s that?
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 06 July 2017, 07:10:23 AM
It's a pigeon you utter OIK, course there's no bird life in Runcorn !

IanS  ;)
Title: Re: What´s that?
Post by: fsn on 06 July 2017, 04:25:31 PM
Quote from: ianrs54 on 06 July 2017, 07:10:23 AM
It's a pigeon you utter OIK, course there's no bird life in Runcorn !

IanS  ;)

The insects ate them all.  :(
Title: Re: What´s that?
Post by: Aksu on 04 August 2017, 07:54:56 AM
Didn't the Swiss army have carrier pigeons that could uniquely fly between two stations? One where they slept and one where they were fed?
Aksu
Title: Re: What´s that?
Post by: FierceKitty on 04 August 2017, 09:30:55 AM
Maybe they attached a very ductile rubber band to the pigeon's leg, fastening the other end to an alphorn, St Bernard, or perhaps a gnome: bird drops message, and no longer has the body mass to resist being elastically zipped back from Uri to Zuerich.