I read that the Russians a long time ago tried to train dogs to run explosives underneath enemy tanks, but ran into a bunch of problems.
The first iteration, the dogs were basically trained as suicide bombers: run underneath the tank and wait for the explosives to blow. Problem was, they trained the dogs using (naturally enough) Russian tanks, so when the dogs were released on an actual battlefield, guess which tanks they ran to?
By their second try, they had decided that dogs took too much time and effort to train to only be getting one use out of them, so they instead taught the dogs to run under the tank, drop a backpack of explosives then run back to the trench. Only this time, the dogs proved to be a tad too smart: They would get out of the trench, take one look at the battlefield, and nope back into the trench.
After that the idea was apparently dropped for good…
I read that the Russians a long time ago tried to train dogs to run explosives underneath enemy tanks, but ran into a bunch of problems.
The first iteration, the dogs were basically trained as suicide bombers: run underneath the tank and wait for the explosives to blow. Problem was, they trained the dogs using (naturally enough) Russian tanks, so when the dogs were released on an actual battlefield, guess which tanks they ran to?
By their second try, they had decided that dogs took too much time and effort to train to only be getting one use out of them, so they instead taught the dogs to run under the tank, drop a backpack of explosives then run back to the trench. Only this time, the dogs proved to be a tad too smart: They would get out of the trench, take one look at the battlefield, and nope back into the trench.
After that the idea was apparently dropped for good…