Quote Originally Posted by r johnson
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.
That happened in one battle when too many were deployed and neither German nor Russian could safely advance. Otherwise, they were quite useful.

Poor things, they only recently stopped training them.