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walliewallie Member Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭
edited March 2014 in General Discussion
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog
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  • bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443 ✭
    edited November -1
    That was interesting.

    Anti-tank dogs German: Panzerabwehrhunde or Hundeminen, "dog-mines") were dogs taught to carry explosives to tanks, armored vehicles and other military targets. They were intensively trained by the Soviet and Russian military forces between 1930 and 1996 and used in 1941-1942 against German tanks in World War II. Although the original dog training routine was to leave the bomb and retreat so that the bomb would be detonated by the timer, this routine failed and was replaced by an impact detonation procedure which killed the dog in the process. The U.S. military trained anti-tank dogs in 1943 for use against fortifications, but never deployed them. Dogs strapped with explosives were unsuccessfully used by Iraqi insurgents in the 2000s.
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  • nordnord Member Posts: 6,106 ✭
    edited November -1
    There was a slight problem though... It seems the dogs weren't terribly selective between Russian and German tanks. Good thing the Russians had a lot of tanks.[;)]
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