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From: adrian@cs.heriot-watt.ac.uk (Adrian Hurt)
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Subject: Re: Blasting Sadam's Bunker(s)
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Date: 28 Feb 91 05:04:40 GMT
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From: adrian@cs.heriot-watt.ac.uk (Adrian Hurt)

In article <1991Feb22.231247.3218@cbnews.att.com> jmasly@mainz-emh2.army.mil (John Masly) writes:
<About how during WW2, the Russians tried to train dogs to carry explosives
under enemy vehicles, by persuading them that there was food under the
vehicles.>

>				The experiment failed because the dogs
>were never conditioned to the noise of a battle.  When the Russians tried
>this tactic out, the dogs were so scared of the general noise, that they
>just stood in place and shook.

In the version I read, the problem was that the dogs ignored German vehicles,
and went for Russian vehicles like the ones with which they had been trained.

Source: "The Book of Heroic Failures", by Stephen Pile.

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