Re: mine-dogs and other bioweapons

In a message dated 98-07-04 12:06:59 EDT, you write:

<< 'Lo folks; a couple of things about animal weapons; from the Zaloga
book
 "The Red Army in the Great Patriotic War 1941-5" (Osprey), the Russians
 started working on mine-dogs in '41, and persisted "at least until
Kursk".
 The load was about 10-12 kg.  The Germans claimed they were
ineffective, but
 the Russians claimed 12 tanks killed at Kursk by 16 dogs, which sounds
 pretty good to me.  The Germans did make a point of shooting dogs on
sight
 just to be on the safe side.  Considering the minimal investment, the
 annoyance value alone was probably worth it.
  >>

The Russian don't like to talk about russian tanks blown up by dog
mines. The
pups were trained using T-34s, so given a choice of a soviet tank or a
german
tank, you can guess which seemed like the right answer to them.