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  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It reminds me of the story of how the Nazis trained kamikaze dogs with explosives strapped to them to hide under tanks, only to find out they had trained then to hide under German tanks, not Soviet ones when they deployed them. I don't know how true this story is but it's a good story anyways.

    • Azarova [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      It's actually the reverse and was due to the different smells between the fuels used.

      Another serious training mistake was revealed later; the Soviets used their own diesel engine tanks to train the dogs rather than German tanks which had gasoline engines.[5] As the dogs relied on their acute sense of smell, the dogs sought out familiar Soviet tanks instead of strange-smelling German tanks.[7] (Anti-tank Dogs)

      They weren't widespread and saw limited use, but worked occasionally. The Germans and Americans flirted with the idea but the Americans canceled for safety reasons and I coudn't find much of anything about the Germans program.