RevRaptor said:
J Tyran said:
I remember reading about how the Soviet bomb dog in WWII worked, worked too well. They trained the poor dogs to run up to tanks, during the training the Russians naturally used their own tanks as they had them around. When they tried to use them in battle the dogs ran towards the tanks just as they had been trained, except they had been trained to run up to Soviet tanks and completely ignored the German ones.
Not sure how accurate it is but its epic ironic justice if it was.
While that did happen occasionally the main problem was the dogs were trained with tanks that were not running, the noise of a moving tank sacred the crap outa them and they usually made a bee ling straight towards Russian infantry, Then there was a mad scramble to de-fuse the dog before the detonator rod got caught on anything and blew them all up. As the infantry was normally hiding in rubble and ruined buildings things could get very chaotic.
Daft idea from the start really, thats just in practical terms and not counting animal welfare. There where loads of wacky ideas involving animals in WWII, like these bat bombs. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb] The idea was to drop a large bomb casing with a parachute attached and filled with bats onto Japanese cities, each bat had a small time delayed incendiary device strapped to it. The bats would then escape the casing and go and find somewhere to roost, hopefully inside the wooden roofs of the buildings where the incendiary would later go off and set fire to the building.
