russian anti tank dogs!!!!!

[dazz1971]

This is no bull!! im watching chris barrie massive machines this episode is about tanks this has just been on it

the russians trained dogs to look for food under tanks then they strapped explosive to them and released them when the german tanks arrived BUT......

they were trained to look under russian tanks for food and unfortunatly they could tell the difference and ran under russian tanks instead !!!

[Steyr_amr]

Yeah who'd have thought Fido could tell the difference between a Panzer IV and a T-34?

I remember reading somewhere that in Medieval times if an army was fielding war elephants the opposing army would cover pigs in grease and set them on fire. Apparantly elephants were scared of pink fiery sqeauling things running around.

There's also been bat bombs, mine hunting dolphins and ninja cattle.

[House MD 221B]

yeah there was a little vertical trigger stick on the dogs backpack, and when the dog went under the tank it bent the switch and exploded. When they released them and they saw what they were doing, the troops were frantically shooting the dogs trying to save their tanks.

Pavlov Pavlova

[Araqiel]

Yeah, nobody thought that maybe the dogs who were used to the sounds and smells of familiar Soviet tanks in relatively peaceful conditions, wouldn't be so keen to run under the German tanks in the midst of an armoured column ambush. There was also the issue that stray dogs in the region were reported through German military channels to be rabid, and were therefore shot on sight. As a result there were very few dogs left on the Eastern front before long anyway.

[JoNnY AnDrEwS]

This was also shown on WW2: The apocolypse the other night.

[Voyager]

Originally Posted by Steyr_amr

Yeah who'd have thought Fido could tell the difference between a Panzer IV and a T-34?

I remember reading somewhere that in Medieval times if an army was fielding war elephants the opposing army would cover pigs in grease and set them on fire. Apparantly elephants were scared of pink fiery sqeauling things running around.

There's also been bat bombs, mine hunting dolphins and ninja cattle.

I believe it was pitch, actually. And like the dogs, the pigs could sometimes get going the wrong way, and then you have 200lbs of flaming panic crashing through your lines. Not good.

I used to live in an area where we had a feral pig problem. You had to be real careful driving in the country, because if you hit one of those things at freeway speeds, it'll flip the car. Pigs may be short, but they're built like little tanks.

[mattmanB182]

What a terrible thing to do. I know many nations used animals in the war, but still im glad it backfired on them.

[TRC Subaru]

Originally Posted by mattmanB182

What a terrible thing to do. I know many nations used animals in the war, but still im glad it backfired on them.

I hope the people who thought this up and implemented this died a slow and horrible death…something like being eaten alive by the very dogs they tried to kill…now that would be poetic justice….

[fuzzychickens]

Originally Posted by mattmanB182

What a terrible thing to do. I know many nations used animals in the war, but still im glad it backfired on them.

Still better than human suicide bombers.

Just like medicine advances made through experiments on animals is preferrable to those done on humans.

In life, you are many times forced to pick the lesser of two evils.

[mattmanB182]

Originally Posted by fuzzychickens

Still better than human suicide bombers.

Just like medicine advances made through experiments on animals is preferrable to those done on humans.

In life, you are many times forced to pick the lesser of two evils.

Well I think they got what they deserved when the dogs went after their own tanks. Hopefully it did some true damage to them.

The cowards should have strapped bombs to themselves and went under the German tanks, since they were so desperate to blow them up.

Well God/Karma taught them a lesson anyway when it backfired.