[OliveMate]

Really with a lack of resources (and the relative safety & time available), off the wall thinking became the standard for British researchers throughout the war – to the point where it practically became policy. Not all of it worked, but considering the challenges faced it's amazing how novel some of the solutions were.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Miscellaneous_We...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncing_bomb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_rat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjandrum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart%27s_Funnies

[stevenwoo]

I was watching a fictionalized version of British SAS origins called SAS Rogue Heroes and they had this in it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_bomb and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewes_bomb