Re: [SG] Wandering mines (was: NAC SAS rescues hostage. . .)

> Paul Lesack wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone ever strapped a Command Detonated Mine onto a > >randomly
> > (or partially randomly) moving object (ie, animal)? [I would
> > never use my rabbits for this, though]. Even a vehicle. Car bomb,
> > anyone?

John Atkinson wrote:

> Russia, in WWII.  Dogs, anti-tank mines, and improper training
> methods--the dogs hid under tanks and blew up, alright.  They just
went
> for Russian tanks (just like the ones in training) instead of German
> ones.  Program cancelled.

Sweden, during and after WWII. Same basic idea, but IIRC our dogs were
trained on Soviet tanks <g> My great-uncle used to have one of those
mine
dogs, but both he and it died long before I was born.

Later,

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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