i saw this link in a forum members sig for a website and read the about page to see what the hell this site is about,mine-dog.net so anyways i found this info and omg i nearly wet myself but instead i laughed for a few minutes
"About mine dogs:
I'm sure many of you will wonder, "Just what IS a mine dog?" A mine dog is literally what you see at the top of this site: a dog with a landmine strapped to its back. The Soviets, in the Second World War, were pretty desperate in finding ways to disable or destroy advancing German armor. Some enterprising young lads decided to try training dogs to run underneath tanks, thus triggering a detonator (you can see it sticking up from the dog's back) on a landmine they would wear. Good idea, no?
Actually no, it's not a good idea. Those of you who know better might have noticed that the dog is running towards a Russian tank. The Russians trained the dogs by placing food under tanks to make the dogs run underneath them. However, they did not take into account the fact that the dogs were trained on their own tanks, so when they were sent into the field, they turned right back around and...well, you get the idea. Mine dogs were not used again after that."
"About mine dogs:
I'm sure many of you will wonder, "Just what IS a mine dog?" A mine dog is literally what you see at the top of this site: a dog with a landmine strapped to its back. The Soviets, in the Second World War, were pretty desperate in finding ways to disable or destroy advancing German armor. Some enterprising young lads decided to try training dogs to run underneath tanks, thus triggering a detonator (you can see it sticking up from the dog's back) on a landmine they would wear. Good idea, no?
Actually no, it's not a good idea. Those of you who know better might have noticed that the dog is running towards a Russian tank. The Russians trained the dogs by placing food under tanks to make the dogs run underneath them. However, they did not take into account the fact that the dogs were trained on their own tanks, so when they were sent into the field, they turned right back around and...well, you get the idea. Mine dogs were not used again after that."
