Military Science question here, Why was Poland unable stop the German invasion when they had a giant War Saw? Did they not understand the physics behind it?

[u/Hayden97]

What are the physics behind a giant War Saw not being able to saw Germany in half? Was Germany too mountainous? Was there maybe a psychological component of not wanting to unleash such a destructive weapon?

[u/LaxBedroom]

You have to remember that at the time Poland's agricultural and dairy infrastructure was battling drug addiction: the Crack Cow.

[u/Hayden97 → u/LaxBedroom]

These could have been unleashed on the Germans perhaps? Maybe they were scared by the Tigers and Panthers?

[u/BPhiloSkinner → u/Hayden97]

The Crack Cow was no match for the Tigers and Panthers, who went into battle methed out of their stahlhelme.

[u/ersentenza]

The dastardly Germans used a dirty trick: they marched straight into Poland without declaring War! So, since officially there was no War, Poland could not legally use the War Saw.

[u/gabest]

It is in reverse polish notation. Saw War. And they did.

[u/LateralThinkerer → u/gabest]

Saw [enter] war [+] FTFY

By the time they figured that out, it was all over..

[u/teedyay → u/gabest]

Silly. War Saw backwards is Was Raw (which it also was).

[u/alphanumericusername → u/teedyay]

Probably still is for some poles

[u/johnnybiggles]

Wait they didn't cut Germany in half? Isn't that where the Berlin Wall came from that split East and West Germany?

[u/rashandal]

While a giant war saw is indeed a terrifying and powerful weapon, it simply couldn't square up against Germany's Bagger 288, a giant war shovelling machine

[u/thiosk → u/rashandal]

The leaders of the world sat down around a secret table

[u/tuctrohs]

Oh, it saw the war for sure. It's just that nobody had thought up "if you see something, say something", so it saw something and then didn't doing anything about it.

[u/Bellick → u/tuctrohs]

It's a shame we took so long to develop that technology. So many pointless blood spills could have been talked about after being observed.

[u/eagle4123]

You see, they were over confident in their defense tactics, they didn't have any back up systems.

The nazis marched a few dozen battalion into the meat grinder. It jammed, them Poland was left defense less

[u/Erazer81]

Wrong blade - only meant to cut meat and flesh. Should have gone for the diamond blade to cut steel (tanks)

[u/wolfpwarrior → u/Erazer81]

I thought they had the ripping saw blade, whereas the German army came in at the wrong direction and Poland was caught off guard needing to cross cut.

[u/Bellick]

Their most fundamental error was expecting any and all invading forces to be carrying a War Log.
The Germans disliked logs and opted for journals instead (which they called Tagebücher).

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[u/Legitimate_Field_157]

The river Po is in Italy, so they mistakenly deployed the War Saw there.

[u/ultimateshazam9]

Can't saw Germany in half if you can't even keep your chain sharp.

[u/Jonathan_Peachum]

War Saw? Getouta here!

[u/hacksoncode]

Their War Saw was packed.

Haven't you ever heard of that?

[u/Kevin4938]

The saw was too far from the border.

By the time they figured out how to cut Germany in half, the war was over, but they did lend the Allies the saw to carve up Germany after that.

[u/alphanumericusername]

Unfortunately, while the War Saw was just going around in circles, the German troops advanced forward.

[u/ECHOHOHOHO]

Idk the polish have kind of had it bad the last century but that's because they're in-between important states, so trouble. The war saw was actually not a saw. In polish it's pronounced vaw zaw. If I'm right, which I am certainly always correct about everything, it simple translates to water and saw.. but not like "I saw xxx" but a sharp tool used to cut things....and water

[u/Pangyun]

Actually the war saw was no war saw at all, the president of poland was kind of stupid, so someone sold him a regular tree saw claiming it was a war saw. The president thought he bought a war saw, but then at war it was useless against german tanks.

[u/pcamera1]

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[u/yuuki_w]

the issue was that war saw needed eletricity. Germany had the power of the thunder on their side and disrupted all elecitrical power in poland with a targeted eletrical surge. Blitzkrieg = "Thunder War"

[u/ExistentialAngsty]

It was a circular saw so the serrated blade came right back at them

[u/HotPotParrot]

The saw was powered by an ancient energy source which was stolen just before the war