Project Pigeon - Psychology at its best / worst / strangest

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Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

Some of these ideas were crazy but others were taken seriously. In the case of the Soviet exploding anti-tank dogs these were actually deployed in combat. The main issue seemed to be the dogs headed for any tracked vehicle not just German ones.

Actually the dogs headed for the Russian vehicles instead of the German ones!

The Russian tanks were running on diesel fuel.
The German Tanks on petrol fuel.
Since the Russians trained their dogs using russian tanks for target practice, the dogs would not identify German tanks as the target (they smelled differently).

Cruel world...

~S~