10 Ridiculous War Weapons You Won't Believe Were Developed

3. The Gay Bomb (USA, 1994)

Suffocating the enemy with the LGBT flag was presumably the backup plan.

In theory, this isn't the worst idea ever (that one involves landmines and chickens) but in practice there's just no way this could work. The title "Gay Bomb" is a bit of a misnomer since the idea itself wasn't turning people gay but inducing sexual arousal in the enemy by dropping a strong aphrodisiac on them I have no idea what the benefit of making your enemy really horny is but I'm guessing the broad idea was that the affected soldiers would suddenly engage in a torrid humpfest that would leave their position relatively unguarded and let the enemy swarm in. Assuming that would be the practical upshot of covering your enemy in an aphrodisiac, it's even more idiotic. If an enemy incursion did suddenly make you incredibly horny, you'd be unlikely to suddenly jump someone's bones in the middle of a warzone. If you're willingly in a position where you could get shot, maimed, or blown to smithereens then you're not going to abandon your duties and risk being violently murdered just because you're in the mood. It's an aphrodisiac, not a Jedi Mind Trick. But the logic of the plan is a moot point since the Gay Bomb was never developed for the simple reason that the technology that would be required doesn't currently exist. In 1994 someone in Ohio just thought "What if we turned the enemy gay" and put the idea forward without thinking of logic and feasibility. My theory that Beavis and Butthead are real and working for military intelligence is a tiny bit less crazy now. Especially since the same proposal included ideas for halitosis and flatulence bombs.