{"id":474,"date":"2008-05-27T20:56:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T20:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/2008\/05\/27\/five-stupid-weapons-that-were-actually-made\/"},"modified":"2008-05-27T20:56:49","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T20:56:49","slug":"five-stupid-weapons-that-were-actually-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/2008\/05\/27\/five-stupid-weapons-that-were-actually-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Five stupid weapons that were actually made"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Ffulgerica.com%2Fen%2F2008%2F05%2F27%2Ffive-stupid-weapons-that-were-actually-made%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"fulgerica\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/2008\/05\/27\/five-stupid-weapons-that-were-actually-made\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>They say that human progress is undeniable &#8211; we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re alway thinking up new ways to kill one another. But the path to genocide isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t smooth, so let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pause to take a look at some of the weapons that didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make the cut in man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s endless desire to exterminate his fellow soldier.<\/p>\n<p><!--comment--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Anti-tank dog<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sciencepunk.com\/v5\/gallery\/dog_mine_001.jpg\" class=\"any\" alt=\"war dog\" align=\"left\" \/> During the Second World War, the Russian Army came up with an ingenious defence against German tanks. Starving dogs would have bombs strapped to them, and then sent toward the enemy vehicles. The dogs had been trained to retrieve food from under Russian tanks, and the idea was that they would dash under the German tanks, seeking food, and in doing so activate a large wooden trigger on their backs. Unfortunately, having been trained using Soviet tanks, the dogs of war much preferred running under Russian tanks. Added to that, the noise of the battlefield confused and frightened them, culminating in an entire troupe of bomb-dogs running amok in a battlefield, endangering everyone and forcing the retreat of the Russian forces. Although credited with the destruction of over 300 Nazi tanks, the dogs were retired from service shortly after.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencepunk.com\/v5\/2008\/05\/five-stupid-weapons-that-were-actually-made\/\" target=\"_blank\">[read the rest of the article]\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Ffulgerica.com%2Fen%2F2008%2F05%2F27%2Ffive-stupid-weapons-that-were-actually-made%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet They say that human progress is undeniable &#8211; we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re alway thinking up new ways to kill one another. But the path to genocide isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t smooth, so let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pause to take a look at some of the weapons that didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make the cut in man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s endless desire to exterminate his fellow soldier. Anti-tank dog During [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}