Well...I'll go look it up in wikipedia.
EDIT: Well, I did. The charge had to be detonated by someone, so who would detonate an explosive under their own tank?
Quote:
Anti-tank dogs, also known as dog mines, were hungry dogs with explosives harnessed to their back and trained to seek food under enemy tanks and armoured vehicles. By doing so, a detonator (usually a small wooden lever) would be set off, triggering the explosives damaging or destroying the military vehicle and instantly killing the dog.
I don't quite understand. Is it triggered by someone, or does the lever just bend backwards when the dog is under a tank?
The dogs disabled three hundred or so German tanks, at least that's what the Soviet Union reported.
Quote:
The Hundeminen, as they were called by the Germans, had been trained using Soviet tanks, and would sometimes be loosed into a battle only to turn round and run towards the Soviets' own vehicles. Other times, the dogs would spook at the rumble of a vehicle's engine and run away.
Spook at the engine, lol. It was a good idea with lots of potential, but we can't traina dog against everything.
Orders were given to shoot any dog in sight, but the guns of the tanks could not shoot low enough at the dogs, plus, the dogs ran fast and were hard to distungiush.
Now, this is something that amazes me-the Germans soon mounted flamethrowers on their tanks to stop the dogs, but some dogs were not afraid of being burned and went under tanks anyways. Even though they are just starved, that's quite a bit of courage if you ask me.
Quote:
However, in 1942 one use of the anti-tank dogs went seriously awry when a large contingent of anti-tank dogs ran amok, endangering everyone in the battle and forcing the retreat of an entire Soviet division. Soon afterward the anti-tank dogs were withdrawn from service.
I would never want to be in that battlefield.

.
But in Wikipedia here is a contradicting fact- The training of these dogs continued until 1996, but they were withdrawn from service

.