What has the military invented?

Question

What has the military invented? List as many as you can!

Cork: As a matter of fact I did do a search. It generally only comes up with military weapons, I am looking for things that are used by the general public.

Answer 1

The military usually doesn't do the inventing, but calls upon inventive people to devise better weapons or support.

There are times when innovations arise in the military, for instance the tail gun on the B-17 was something a flight crew cooked up because the German fighters would fly directly behind the bomber in order to shoot it down. When magnetic detonators weren't working on American torpedos early in World War II, the Navy had a crew figure out something to replace them. Still, the majority of things the military has needed may have been paid by governments and the military but rarely does the military itself do the actual inventing. Ingenuity in tactics and strategies, maybe, but rarely things.

Answer 2

Canning

"Canning started in jars. The process was invented in France in 1795 by Nicholas Appert, a chef who was determined to win the prize of 12,000 francs offered by Napoleon for a way to prevent military food supplies from spoiling. Appert canned meats and vegetables in jars sealed with pitch and by 1804 opened his first vacuum-packing plant. It was a French military secret that soon leaked across the English Channel

In 1810 Peter Durance, an Englishman, patented the use of metal containers for canning, and by the next year others had opened factories. The troops that faced off at Waterloo had canned rations."

Answer 3

Nuclear bomb? Lol

Answer 4

Radar, Sonar

All the weapons you can think of....

Answer 5

Hook and loop fastener (aka Velcro)

Answer 6

TO MANY HERE.

TYPE IN SRCH BAR.

MILITARY INVENTIONS..
YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED.