WW2 Weapons Platforms: What accomplished the most with the least?

[grumbler]

I'll throw out another "least that got the most" contender:  the AIM-9 sidewinder.  Still in frontline use 50 years after IOC, and widely copied.  It was an utterly simple missile in most of its iterations, and yet so reliable and potent that pilots actually preferred to use it rather than longer-ranged radar missiles.

[Berkut]

How about the Jeep carriers?

[Tonitrus]

[Siege]

Did the Stuka see all that much action later on?  I know it was rather useful earlier on, but I was under the impression that they got massacred at Dunkirk, and anywhere on the Eastern Front where there was any kind of air cover, and that by the mid-war period, they were pretty much gone.

Didn't that german dude that had like 500 tank kills use an Stuka?

Of course, up until the guided missile came along, the dive bomber was the ultimate weapon in naval warfare.  Except for the dreadnought battleship, of course.

In your dreams. After the italians sunk that austrian battleship with a torpedo boat back in WW1, the battleship became hopelessly obsolete.

[Tonitrus]

Hint: Not the tank.

[Siege]

I'll throw out another "least that got the most" contender:  the AIM-9 sidewinder.  Still in frontline use 50 years after IOC, and widely copied.  It was an utterly simple missile in most of its iterations, and yet so reliable and potent that pilots actually preferred to use it rather than longer-ranged radar missiles.

Have you seen a sidewinder lately?
They have full sphere engagement capability these days.
A lot of high tech toys inside those little fuckers.

[DGuller]

Hint: Not the tank.

How inhumane. 

[Siege]

I laughed my ass off with the land-mine dog.

Its so funny how he goes straight for the tank wagging his tail...

[Neil]

In your dreams. After the italians sunk that austrian battleship with a torpedo boat back in WW1, the battleship became hopelessly obsolete.

And yet obviously not, as they continued to build useful and new battleships for three decades after that.

Dreadnoughts are far more useful than infantry.

[DGuller]

I laughed my ass off with the land-mine dog.

Its so funny how he goes straight for the tank wagging his tail...

It would've been nice if that Soviet dog didn't head for a Soviet tank, but no weapon system is perfect, I guess.

[Siege]

I laughed my ass off with the land-mine dog.

Its so funny how he goes straight for the tank wagging his tail...

It would've been nice if that Soviet dog didn't head for a Soviet tank, but no weapon system is perfect, I guess.

That was a friendly fire incident?

By the cloud of dust, it looks as if the T34 is backing up, running away from the dog...

[HisMajestyBOB]

How about the Jeep carriers?

Kubelwagons!

[Norgy]

Yeah, looks like T-34 to me.

Also:
NOT AMUSED! DOGS ARE PEOPLE TOO!

[Mr.Penguin]

Most likely a training secion where the dog is trained in running under enemy tanks, so proberly no expolsives. Ofcourse rumor has it that Anti-tank dogs had one important fault, the dog had only learn to run under russian tanks not german ones, so at the front did the dogs go after the wrong tanks...

Also its a T-43 prototype with a dummy gun...

[Siege]

Yeah, looks like T-34 to me.

Also:
NOT AMUSED! DOGS ARE PEOPLE TOO!

Are you serious?
Of course it is a T34, early version with the 76mm main gun.