In World War 2 we strapped fire bombs to bats and dropped them out of planes over Japan. Nobody likes Canadian geese and you can fit like three bricks of C-4 on the fuckers.
In World War 2 we strapped fire bombs to bats and dropped them out of planes over Japan.
IIRC that was actually over Texas, resulting in the military base experimenting with it catching on fire. Still not as galaxy brain as their idea of using cats as guidance systems for anti-ship bombs, on the pretense that the cat would naturally steer the bomb to avoid landing in water.
Are you sure you're not thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon ?
They developed warheads that contained a pigeon and 3 lenses connected to the fins. The pigeons were trained to peck at the lens containing the largest image of a ship to steer it into the ship.
Yes, the pigeon thing actually sort of worked but was never put into actual use, while the cat idea (although an actual proposed solution some military STEM dork came up with) may or may not have even been tested on account of how obviously nonsensical it is.
In World War 2 we strapped fire bombs to bats and dropped them out of planes over Japan. Nobody likes Canadian geese and you can fit like three bricks of C-4 on the fuckers.
IIRC that was actually over Texas, resulting in the military base experimenting with it catching on fire. Still not as galaxy brain as their idea of using cats as guidance systems for anti-ship bombs, on the pretense that the cat would naturally steer the bomb to avoid landing in water.
Are you sure you're not thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon ?
They developed warheads that contained a pigeon and 3 lenses connected to the fins. The pigeons were trained to peck at the lens containing the largest image of a ship to steer it into the ship.
Yes, the pigeon thing actually sort of worked but was never put into actual use, while the cat idea (although an actual proposed solution some military STEM dork came up with) may or may not have even been tested on account of how obviously nonsensical it is.