German fascists once wanted to build

Making a weapon capable of destroying the enemy with sunlight is a plan that the Nazis almost carried out during their reign.

In 1945, Life magazine published an article about how US military experts found Nazi Germany's plan to build weapons using sunlight.

News leads a piece in the article: ' The mirror will focus the sun's rays on a point on the surface of the earth. It is believed that the German army wanted to use such a mirror to burn an enemy city or to heat a portion of the ocean. '

The idea of ​​making a solar gun came with Hermann Oberth, the famous German rocket maker, in 1923.

The article about the idea of ​​creating a giant mirror in space to spend
Destroy the enemy with sunlight by Hermann Oberth. (Photo: Life)

Oberth estimates the cost of making a mirror is 3 million marks and the installation process lasts for 15 years. The original purpose of the space mirror is to provide sunlight for people everywhere on earth. However, then Oberth considered it an 'ultimate weapon'.

'My space mirror is like mirrors that the students still use to shine the sunlight circles on the ceiling of the classroom. A light on the teacher's face can make them unhappy , 'Oberth described.

In 1945, when the Allies saw the Nazi war plans they obtained, they discovered that the Nazis had upgraded Oberth's proposals and began studying the feasibility of construction. a mirror weapon more than 35,000km from the earth.

Germany is not the only country that researches the possibility of harnessing solar energy. In 1999, Russia revealed a plan to use mirrors to reflect sunlight into the earth in the winter.