Soviet Army used 'rat weapon'

[The_Historian]

I remember reading somewhere about the Russians using dogs with bombs strapped to them as anti-tank weapons…

Any corroboration?

[Nickdfresh]

There’s a thread on it here in fact, but that might take a bit to find…

[The_Historian]

Speaking of animals as tools of war, I got a real kick reading about the “bat bombs” we made to terrorize the Japanese

[flamethrowerguy]

@Nickdfresh

There’s a thread on it here in fact, but that might take a bit to find…

Here it is:
http://ww2incolor.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8457&highlight=dogs

[The_Historian]

Thanks

[Chevan]

@Uyraell

As with other things at Stalingrad, conditions were so hellish that any mammal would eat almost anything to simply survive, regardless political ideologies.
It is almost a truism to say that Stalingrad became so hellish political ideologies came very near to irrelevancy. That may be an oversimplification, but several items in have read over the years tend to support that view.

Noway.
The russian-borm mouses never eated the electro-equipment of russian tanks:)( the evil enemyes of russia claims it’ becouse the russian didn’t used any electro equipment on its tanks at all:D)
We have not the testimonies of the that from russian side at least:D
It was definitely a sort of the Patriotic mouses. Probably special trained.I suppose the NKVD political officers might to be proud of it’s job on the… “rat front”.:mrgreen:
Unfortinatelly all of Russian rat and mouses had died by death of heroes of SU:)
As we know German 6 army not just had eated all the dogs and cats for dinner in Stalingrad but almost all the rats and probably mouses for supper:)

[Nickdfresh]

@flamethrowerguy

Here it is:
http://ww2incolor.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8457&highlight=dogs

I think there’s another, longer one in the archives from 2006 maybe…