9 конструкций, которые нарушают законы физики - но работают

Nine designs that weren't supposed to work—but did. A plane that shot down its own shells. A nuclear bazooka with a blast radius greater than its range. A bomber that rode its own shockwave. A ship that was actually an airplane and hung a meter above the water. An eighty-nine-kilogram spring that soldiers were afraid to load—and which won battles. A torpedo that outran everything living on the water, but sometimes turned back. A one-hundred-twenty-seven-meter-long cannon that never reached its target. A missile interceptor with eight minutes of fuel that killed its pilots with its own fuel. A passenger jet that became a laboratory for a competitor thirty years after its first flight. This isn't science fiction. This is the engineering history of the twentieth century: specific dates, names, loss figures, and technical specifications of machines that defied common sense—and still fired. Sources: Jane's Fighting Ships, various editions Bill Gunston. Fighters of the Fifties. Specialty Press, 1981 Walter J. Boyne. Beyond the Horizons: The Lockheed Story. St. Martin's Press, 1998 Anthony Kay. Junkers Aircraft and Engines. Putnam, 2004 Norman Polmar. The Naval Institute Guide to the Soviet Navy. Naval Institute Press, 1991 Manfred Griehl. Luftwaffe X-Planes. Greenhill Books, 2002 William Green. Rocket Fighter. Ballantine Books, 1971 David Baker The Rocket: The History and Development of Rocket and Missile Technology. Crown, 1978 Robert Forsyth. Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet. Osprey Publishing, 2012 Leland Ness. Jane's World War II Tanks and Fighting Vehicles. HarperCollins, 2002 Peter Hore. The Habit of Victory: The Story of the Royal Navy 1545–1945. Pan Books, 2005 Guy Norris, Mark Wagner. Concorde. MBI Publishing, 1999