Hey Neebs, another animal guided weapon back in WWII was a bomb attached to a dog! This was done by the then Soviet Union to destroy the German Pazer tanks. Compared to the Pigeon-Guided Missle, this was (in my opinion ) worse.
+VaporShock1 +Neebs Gaming CTE here we come...lol TV Missile= Pigeon bomb JDam= Bat Bomb Claymore= Explosive Rat Eod Bot= Goliath tracked mine DICE Pls
What's amazing is the bat bomb thing actually worked, very very well. Thankfully, depending on how you look at it, the Manhattan project was going ahead very well and the bat bomb wasn't deemed necessary.
Let's not forget the Battlefield 1942 mod 'Forgotten Hope'. It already has the Goliath. And, if you were to speak with the developers, they may just incorporate some of these into Battlefield 2's mod 'Forgotten Hope 2'.
I think another weird one was the Soviets in WWII tried to train dogs to be anti tank dogs, strapping explosives to them with contacts near the head so that when the dog bit at the tank the contacts would touch the tank and complete the circuit and set off the explosives it didn't work because they trained the dogs with Soviet tanks so the dogs would ignore German tanks and bite at Soviet tanks.
its scary how my psychology teacher was teaching us about skinner, and how he invented pigeon guided missiles in class, the next class i had with him after this.
"William A. Prestre, a Swiss citizen living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, proposed using large dogs to kill Japanese soldiers. He convinced the military to lease an entire island in the Mississippi River to house the training facilities. There the army hoped to train as many as two million dogs. The idea was to begin island invasions with landing craft releasing thousands of dogs against the Japanese defenders, then followed up by troops as the Japanese defenders scattered in confusion"
Batttlefield 1942 had an expansion called special weapons of w11 or something like that. they didnt have this stuff but they had cool guns and jet packs n stuff
a backyard battlefield where the players are using armed toys like rc carbombs and explosive animals. maybe to invade each other's houses. who would play the exploding animal's side?i think the squirrel bomb should be a later unlock. achievement unlocked: that squirrel's got nuts.
That little tank appears in company of heroes (A great game). I like to use it against the enemy a lot. btw I am all for it that EA should use the WW2 weopons as a easter egg or something! XD
Have you heard of the Russian anti-tank dog? Its basically a dog with a timed bomb strapped to it that is trained to seek out diesel fuel. The Russians thought that germany used diesel, they did not. So when Russia deployed the dog, instead of going to the gas powered German tank, it came right back to the diesel powered Russian tank. So yeah, nice job Russia
The Russians used German Shepherds as suicide bombers. They would starve the dog and the only way the dog could get food was to go under a tank. In battle, they would strap an explosive to the dog and the dog would run under the tank and explode
The bat bomb was actually the original idea to use in hiroshima and Nagasaki but then scientists learned how to split the atom and they dumped the idea and used atom bombs instead
Wait, wait, wait... the rat bomb thing. To paraphrase: "They scattered "bomb stuffed dead rats" near people's boilers in the hopes they would then discover the rats and then scoop them into the boiler thus destroying the boiler." Why not remove two pointless steps and just toss a bomb in the boiler while you're down there instead of hiding perved up death rats all over the joint and hoping things work out? Something seems lost in translation here.
lol, see recon off in a hide somewhere and all of a sudden all these bats start coming in and hanging on the ceiling. Recon: Hey there's a lot of bats in here, enginee: bats? what the fuck. Recon: their actually kinda cute lol....OMG! their catching on fire oh shit, help, help me. Medic: ah yeah.... he'll be fine. Recon ow their biting and burning me at the same time, help me you assholes! Engineer: I'm not going up there with fucking burning man eating bats. Medic: yeah.... he'll be just fine.
this first thing that rolls up the beach was testet in the company of hight ranking officers and their families. i wached this on n24 and if i remeber correctly the officer in charge had his dog with him. and the dog chesed after the weapon =D
*think idea of having somthing unmanned roll up the beach and blow up a bunker or break a barrier to make way for troops landing on a beach* stupid *think idea of 1 million bats with tiny bombs even though they would probably end up in a cave* amazing!
Actually, the bat bomber was canceled after one of the bats escaped and burned downs nearly half the facility it was being researched in. The cost to rebuild was considered more than the project was worth.
The goliath was mostly used to clear minefields. The would drive the thing in to The minefield and detonate it next to The mines. Thats what my grandpa told me about it.
Forgot the dog tank buster. Trained dogs to run up to tanks carrying backpack full of explosives on timer...Problem was dog would get halfway to the tank, say forget it, then run back to the handler with the lit charge.
Dont mean to be rude here and forgive me if im wrong but the reason the dogs ran back because they were trained on the smell of friendly fuel and not enemy fuel so they ran back thinking "hey enemy" but it was really a friendly tank
An_Alright_Gamer _ Im not saying you are wrong, I saw the thing about the dogs on the history channel and the handler would point at the tank and give the command. Some of the dogs would turn around half way there. You could be right, I don't remember exactly why they would turn around half way there. The way I understood it, in the fog of war they would get scared and return to the handler.
the bats in the bat-bombs would have 80grams of Napalm, in small capsules (I think, correct me if im wrong). the wepon worked as Neebs said, but was cut in favor of the atomic bomb
The Goliath was pretty effective. My Grandpa was a Goliath driver for 3 years. The effectiveness against tanks was not so great because if you missed the tank would know where you are because of the rope. But against standing targets, it was really neat. He once told me that he used the goliath to blow up a tram car where enemys were hiding in.
***** It was a nuclear landmine with a 10-day timer that was meant to be buried-underground ahead of advancing Soviet tank formations. A live chicken was placed inside to keep the electronics from freezing.
The Bat bomb was 100% reliable. they tested it 7 times with devastating effects. They actually did far better than even conceived in the Trial test, where they simply opened a box with 10 Bats who flew out to hide and sleep in the rafters of the Airforce Hanger. Test 2 was more like multiple rests to design the release mechanism. They eventualy came up with the Honey comb idea. They placed it on a rig. Dropped the shelves so they would hang but not hit the ground (due to the Cables, and the rig being high enough) Same result as Test 1. Test 3 they tried it outside with a group of small wooden prefab buildings. Some bats actually went into the nearby Hanger and set it online (no one was injured but the Hanger roof burned down). Test 4 They tried withought the bomb packages triggers activated and with only prefabs in the area. All bats went to hang in the rafters. Test 4 and 5 were live tests with the Bomb Test 4 involved no activated packages. Test 5 had activated bombs. All the buildings with bats burned. (yes a lot of bats died... more than 80% in each test actually managed to get away..... and no one knows exactly how, to this day). The bomb was never used... because they built, you know, the Tall boy and the Fat boy ;)
Garreth Kelly The Atlantic SUBSCRIBE SEARCH MENU Old, Weird Tech: The Bat Bombs of World War II Old, Weird Tech: The Bat Bombs of World War II ALEXIS C. MADRIGAL APR 14, 2011 TECHNOLOGY Share Tweet … TEXT SIZE Like The Atlantic? Subscribe to the Daily, our free weekday email newsletter. BatHouse.jpg On December 7, 1941, a Pennsylvania dentist named Lytle S. Adams was on vacation in the southwest at the famed Carlsbad Caverns, home to excellent spelunking and about a million bats. Adams had been particularly impressed with the bats during his time in New Mexico. So when he turned on the radio that infamous day and heard the news that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor, he began plotting a very unusual form of revenge on our World War II enemies. Less than a month later, on January 12, 1942, he sent the White House his plan: We could demolish Japanese cities by strapping tiny incendiary bombs to bats, which they would carry into the all the nooks and crannies of the cities on the island. "Think of thousands of fires breaking out simultaneously over a circle of forty miles in diameter for every bomb dropped," he later recalled. Japan could have been devastated, yet with small loss of life." Now, as luck would have it, Adams happened to know Eleanor Roosevelt. He'd flown her in his plane to see a previous scheme he'd cooked up: an airmail system where the plane doesn't have to land to pick up cargo. So, when he finished his preliminary investigations, he appears to have managed to get a high-level audience, despite the rather eccentric nature of his idea. His proposal was taken up by the National Research Defense Committee, which was in charge of coordinating and investigating research into war-applicable ideas. They forwarded the proposal to one Donald Griffin, who had conducted groundbreaking work on bats' echolocation strategies, as related by Patrick Drumm and Christopher Ovre in this month's American Psychological Association Journal. Griffin, who later became a renowned psychologist who argued that non-human animals also possess consciousness, was quite enthusiastic about the idea. "This proposal seems bizarre and visionary at first glance," he wrote in April 1942, "but extensive experience with experimental biology convinces the writer that if executed competently it would have every chance of success." The President's men followed Griffin's lead. "This man is not a nut. It sounds like a perfectly wild idea but is worth looking into," a Presidential memorandum concluded. And so, just like that, a dentist's crazy idea about bats had become a U.S. government research project. After the team settled on using the Mexican free-tailed bat, Adams took a few to Washington for a demonstration of them carrying a dummy bomb. His superiors were sufficiently impressed that the U.S. Air Force gave authority for investigations to begin in earnest. It was March of 1943. The subject of the letter was, "Test of Method to Scatter Incendiaries." The purpose of the test was listed as, "Determine the feasibility of using bats to carry small incendiary bombs into enemy targets." The scheme became known as Project X-Ray. After being transferred to the Army, thousands of bats were captured with nets at caverns around the southwest. Tiny bombs were designed for them. Appreciate, for a moment, the incendiary bomb that they came up with: batshitcrazybomb.jpg But this was a complex system that was being engineered. The researchers needed to figure out how to transport and deploy the little guys. So they did. First, the bats had to be kept in a hibernating mode while they were shipped. To accomplish this, they were stuck in ice cube trays and cooled. Second, they had to figure out how to release them in midair. A cardboard container was supposed to automatically open and release the bats. This was a real effort that cost science and engineering effort. Unfortunately, real tests did not go as planned. There were all kinds of things that needed to be fine-tuned. For example, at one point, a few of the loaded incendiary bats were accidentally released, whereupon a hangar and general's car were burned (as you can see in the photo below). Eventually the Marine Corps took over the program and conducted tests beginning in December 1943. After 30 demonstrations and $2 million spent, the project was canceled. Most people believe it's because the U.S. realized that all resources should be concentrated on the development of a far more powerful weapon: the atomic bomb. Adams, for his part, went on to a variety of crazy schemes. Right after, he advocated bombing the prairies with seed packets, and patented that scheme. And finally, after moving to Washington state, he tried to garner interest in a fried chicken vending machine. Truly Adams was a man with some ideas of his own making. batbombcomp2.jpg 1. Lytle Adams loading bats into containers. 2. The bat containers being airdropped in a test. 3. The fire that accidentally released bats started at an Air Force facility. Images: U.S. Air Force. Hat tip: @AlNotAlly The Marine Corps spent $2 million testing an idea cooked up by a Pennsylvania dentist: tiny bats to scatter bombs across Japan
you missed one the nazi's trained kamikaze dogs to blow themselves up underneath enemy tanks all test were successful and the day the actually used them the dogs kamikaze the nazi's tanks instead..
+Neebs Gaming Neebs how can you put decals on your weapons, because me and my friends made a squad called "ass squierls" and we would like to know how to put our decal?
