Anti-Tank Dogs and the Fiasco that Ensued

June 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

1941, German forces invade the Soviet Union. Soviet troops although very strong in numbers are outmatched in just about everything else. The Nazis are using the newly coined blitzkrieg style attacks. Depending heavily on their armored divisions to gain ground. Soviet generals are stressed and are in dire need for solutions to counter the German advance. Such is born the anti tank dog (ohh yea you heard that right).

The Soviets eager to find a way to counter the heavy armor of the German tanks decided possibly while smashed on Vodka to strap dogs with high explosives and send them under the tanks where they would explode and take out the weaker armor underneath.

The dogs were starved then trained to find food that would be placed under tanks. Soon the dogs became accustom to seeking out food underneath tanks. Mounted with a switch on their backs that would be tripped when going under the tank then boom anti-tank dog.

The soviet anti-tank dogs did have one very serious flaw. They were trained to look for food under the soviet tanks. When released into the battlefield they did indeed look for food under tanks, but the tanks they were trained to look under happened to be the soviets own tanks. This would surely have made the 1941 Darwin Awards if only they had existed.

They later did see some success in battle as they were quick moving and very low to the ground making them very hard to hit with normal anti-infantry weapons. Today the anti-tank dog is long since retired much to the joy of PETA. Hey at least no one was eating them right?

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