The British Great Panjandrum device was an attempt to solve one particularly troublesome problem towards the end of World War ...

One of the more bizarre weapons in military history was the Great Panjandrum, a huge rocket-powered spinning wheel of explosives designed to take out Nazi defenses along the Atlantic in WWII. This is ...

Panjandrum, known also as The Great Panjandrum, was a massive, rocket-propelled, explosive-laden cart designed by the British military during World War II. It was one of a number of highly ...

It was reported that the enemy beaches were defended by an enormous bastion of re-enforced concrete which was 10ft high and 7ft thick. This would have to be knocked down or at least breched for the ...

War has a long history of sparking and accelerating invention. But while many of those ideas change history---the bayonet, aerial combat, the nuclear bomb---there are just as many that flop. The list ...

A replica of a secret military weapon tested on a north Devon beach during World War II has been launched in spectacular style. The Great Panjandrum was a huge rocket-propelled drum, normally packed ...

To make D-Day a success, the Allies thought they might have to break through formidable German defences. One unconventional idea was a "giant firework" that would deliver a one-tonne bomb: the ...

It was reported that the enemy beaches were defended by an enormous bastion of re-enforced concrete which was 10ft high and 7ft thick. This would have to be knocked down or at least breched for the ...