[history/WTF] Because c_for_characters reminded me of it, the uh..."lovely" Me 163 Komet. Major CONTENT WARNING here and shockingly it has nothing to do with the fact it involves Nazis. It's because of the horrible ways it could kill the pilot.

The German Rocket Fighter that Dissolved its Pilots ...

Remember that scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where the Nazi guy has the flesh melting off his face while he's still alive?

That.

That's a thing it could do to you.

And if you were real lucky you'd be dead when it happened thanks to slamming into the ground at holy-fuck-this-is-entirely-too-fast miles per hour and dying on impact, because for some reason they decided the damn thing didn't need landing gear and you could just crash land it every time you came back to base.

They also fucked around with Chlorine Trifluoride as a fuel, but quickly realized this is the most evil chemical that exists and it's best not to fuck with it

Setting Fire to Glass - The "Nope" Chemical That is ...

Seriously, this chemical hates literally everything

Gets on concrete? The concrete's on fire. Gets on asbestos? The asbestos is on fire.

Glass? On fire

Water? It explodes. And also releases clouds of acid, because of course it does.

goddamn i forgot about that one

not the me 163 Komet. The Chlorine Trifluoride

It's such a delightful mass of death and destruction that THE NAZIS decided it wasn't worth the risk

WHICH SAYS SOMETHING

Wtf do you even store Chlorine Triflouride in?

steel or a few other metals that have been specially treated with fluoride so they don't burst into flame and/or explode

also they need to be, at minimum, watertight