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:smash: Wardogs are the ultimate fire-and-forget weapon. The moment you see an enemy unit wavering, unleash the mutts on them to really turn the screw. Once the handlers have let the slavering brutes go, run them back to a place of safety then hit the withdraw button. This keeps them intact for the next battle. The dogs will chew their way through routing enemies without any further prompting from you, leaving you free to concentrate on spreading the rout. Good doggies!
The Russians tried it during WW2. They strapped bombs to dogs and trained them to expect to find food underneath tanks and when the dog were underneath the tank (weakest part) the bombs would detonate and thats the end of the enemy's armor. But the dogs were smarter than the Russians bargained for, instead of charging for Germans tanks they went to Russian tanks (because they'd been trained on Russian tanks and the dogs saw the difference) and the Russians lost all their thanks in that army group.:laugh4:
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The Russians tried it during WW2. They strapped bombs to dogs and trained them to expect to find food underneath tanks and when the dog were underneath the tank (weakest part) the bombs would detonate and thats the end of the enemy's armor. But the dogs were smarter than the Russians bargained for, instead of charging for Germans tanks they went to Russian tanks (because they'd been trained on Russian tanks and the dogs saw the difference) and the Russians lost all their thanks in that army group.
Lmao, This should be added to a 'You know you have lost the battle when.. ' Thread.
You know you have lost the battle when the dogs you attatched bombs to and trained to destroy tanks, Run under your own tanks.
You scared me there Maximus, I thought this was about the rapper ~;)
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HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....stupid russians...Quote:
Originally Posted by r johnson
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i also thought this was about the rapper...yay that it is not!
That happened in one battle when too many were deployed and neither German nor Russian could safely advance. Otherwise, they were quite useful.Quote:
Originally Posted by r johnson
Poor things, they only recently stopped training them.
Russians learned the appropriate lesson quickly. Dogs were employed far from friendly tanks.
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Realization of that plan was less successful. The Hundeminen, as they were called by the Germans, had been trained using Soviet tanks, and would sometimes be loosed into a battle only to turn round and attack the Soviets' own forces. Other times the dogs would spook at the rumble of a vehicle's engine and run away.
Despite the problems, the anti-tank dogs were successful at disabling a reported three hundred German tanks. They were enough of a problem to the Nazi advance that the Germans were compelled to take measures against them. An armoured vehicle's top-mounted machine gun proved ineffective due to the relatively small size of the attackers and the fact that they were low to the ground, fast, and hard to spot. Orders were dispatched that commanded every German soldier to shoot any dogs on sight. Eventually the Germans began using tank-mounted flame-throwers to ward off the dogs. They were much more successful at dissuading the attacks—but some dogs would not stop, neither for fear of the fire nor of being burned.
However, in 1942 one use of the anti-tank dogs went seriously awry when a large contingent of anti-tank dogs ran amok, endangering everyone in the battle and forcing the retreat of an entire Soviet division. Soon afterward the anti-tank dogs were withdrawn from service.
Training of anti-tank dogs continued until at least June 1996 (Zaloga et al 1997:72).