Inside the Animal Guided Bombs of WW2

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Some of the strangest weapons of World War II weren’t “smart” because of electronics, but because they relied on living creatures to guide weapons.
In the Soviet Union, dogs were trained for anti-tank missions, aiming to use their instincts to counter the German tank threat. In the United States, researchers explored ‘bat bombs,’ a project aimed at releasing bats carrying incendiary devices, hoping to create a weapon more destructive than conventional bombs. And psychologist B. F. Skinner proposed something even more surreal: a glide bomb guided by pigeons - Project ORCON.
What engineering challenges drove people to involve animals in their wars? How did these unconventional systems actually work? Were they ingenious solutions or desperate gambles? And where do we draw the line between wartime innovation and reckless experimentation?
A documentary story of bizarre engineering, real historical programs, and the uncomfortable limits of control, when the military turns the animals into ‘guided munitions’.

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U.S. Explosive Ordnance, Ordnance Pamphlet No. 1664, Volume 2. US Navy, 1947
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00:00 Introduction
00:27 I - Pigeon-Guided Bomb
01:42 I - Airframe
02:44 I - Guidance System
04:54 I - Explosive Payload
05:15 I - Deployment
08:15 II - Bat Bomb
09:12 II - Body & Explosive Payload
10:39 II - Tail Assembly
11:10 II - How The Bomb Functioned
13:53 III - Anti-Tank Dog
14:47 III - Explosive Device
15:59 III - Dogs
16:45 III - How It Worked
19:16 Summary

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