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Post here your gold silver bronze and dishonorable mention for the most wasteful weapons project after 1900
Things to take into account that should influence your choice
1. Mega cost/labor overruns
2. Limited or zero real life use or cancellation prior to deployment due to failures or cost of the weapon
3. Safety issues
4. Total impracticality or not serving any function at all (bonus points of enemy nation's think the system or weapon is a joke)
There are some real out and out losers here but I'll pick a couple to get the ball rolling
Gold - Paris gun/V3/Gerald Bull Babylon gun... all super guns these weapons wasted enormous sums of money, for zero strategic or tactical value at all
Silver - The Zumwalt class destroyer... 3 billion dollars for a destroyer? It will be cancelled by the new congress and its stupid 5 billion dollars to develop missile system STILL DOESN'T ADDRESS THE SHORE FIRE SUPPORT ISSUES. If I was an enemy skipper; that would be the first can I'd sink just to flush 3 billion dollars into the ocean. World class idiocy in this weapon
Bronze - Bismark and Yamato class battleships... they where both complete failures bar none and mega wastes of funds and resources
Dishonorable mention - The Panzer MK 2... 10 tonnes of steel and it only had a 20mm gun? and a power to weight ratio only 3/5 of the Panzer MK 1... and they built 1000 of these damn things. It would have been obsolete in 1930, let alone 1940... hell a Renault FT-17 of WW1 vintage would have a reasonable chance of engaging and destroying an MK 2; armored vehicle fail