Project Pigeon during World War II was an attempt to develop a pigeon-guided missile using the conditioned pecking behaviour of pigeons. The famous psychologist B.F Skinner trained the pigeons to keep pecking a target that would hold a missile onto a target.This project was dropped, however, due to the secret development of radar.
Bat Bombs
During World War I, the United States developed The Bat Bomb as an experimental weapon for Japanese targets. This weapon comprised bomb-shaped canisters containing hibernating bats and had a bomb attached. The canisters were usually dropped from a high altitude over the target area and a parachute would open in mid-flight. As the bats warmed up, they would wake up and fly off and the bombs would then start fires in the wood and paper Japanese buildings.
The British Special Operations Executive in World War II used exploding dead rats against the Germans. The dead rats were filled with plastic explosives and left lying about in factories, in the hope that the rats would be disposed of in boilers, resulting in the factory blowing up.
The United States used military dolphins and sea lions for underwater sentry duty, mine clearance and object recovery during the Cold War.
In the 1960s, the CIA attempted to use cats in spy missions to spy on the Kremlin and Soviet Embassies. This project was called Acoustic Kitty. A microphone and batter, were implanted into a cat, and an antenna attached its tail.The cat could record and transmit the conversations around it.
Meow!
The Taliban in 2009, strapped an explosive device to a donkey, but it was stopped by a rife shot. However, in 2012, a policeman and three civilians were killed by a remotely detonated bomb strapped to a donkey, by Taliban insurgents.
Books To Read
Acoustic Kitty by Bob Rybarczyk - cats are turned into surveillance devices.
During World War I, the United States developed The Bat Bomb as an experimental weapon for Japanese targets. This weapon comprised bomb-shaped canisters containing hibernating bats and had a bomb attached. The canisters were usually dropped from a high altitude over the target area and a parachute would open in mid-flight. As the bats warmed up, they would wake up and fly off and the bombs would then start fires in the wood and paper Japanese buildings.
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| Bat-bomb canister later used to house the hibernating bats. Ideally, the canister would be dropped from high altitude over the target area, and as the bomb fell (slowed by a parachute), the bats would warm up and awaken. At 1,000 ft. altitude, the bomb would open and over a thousand bats, each carrying a tiny time-delayed napalm incendiary device, would fly in a 20-40 mile radius and roost in flammable wooden Japanese buildings. The napalm devices would ignite simultaneously, and thousands of small fires would flare up at once |
The United States used military dolphins and sea lions for underwater sentry duty, mine clearance and object recovery during the Cold War.
In the 1960s, the CIA attempted to use cats in spy missions to spy on the Kremlin and Soviet Embassies. This project was called Acoustic Kitty. A microphone and batter, were implanted into a cat, and an antenna attached its tail.The cat could record and transmit the conversations around it.
Meow!
The Taliban in 2009, strapped an explosive device to a donkey, but it was stopped by a rife shot. However, in 2012, a policeman and three civilians were killed by a remotely detonated bomb strapped to a donkey, by Taliban insurgents.
Books To Read
Acoustic Kitty by Bob Rybarczyk - cats are turned into surveillance devices.
