Kamikaze / suicide planes

[TheAllMihtyOne]

Was tha japs the only ones using suicide taktiks during ww2? i some times feel like the russians would be a bit suicidal. how often did pilots crash their planes inte tanks when they run out of ammo? did people krash jeeps into their enemies? 

[vengefulnoob]

the Germans used focke wolfs to try to destroy bridges over the Rhine by flying into them to stop the soviets, but they were shot down

There were occasional suicide attacks, but not often: in Stalingrad a soviet soldier who was gonna throw a Molotov cocktaiil at a panzer had it explode over him when the tank shot at him, but jumped onto the tank, destroying it.

[TheAllMihtyOne]

a friend told me the germans traind dogs so that they would run in under tanks and then they put bombs on the dogs so that the tank would explode when the dog ran in under it. sounds a bit weird but it culd be true

[UeArtemis]

Anti-tank dogs, also known as dog mines, were starving dogs with explosives harnessed to their back and trained to seek food under enemy tanks and armoured vehicles. By doing so, a small wooden lever would be tripped, detonating the explosives.

The dogs were employed by the Soviet Union during World War II, to be used against German tanks. The dogs would be starved, then trained to find food under a tank. The dogs quickly learned that being released from their pens meant to run out to where a tank was parked and find some victuals. Once trained, the dogs would be fitted with an explosive charge and set loose into a field of oncoming German tanks. When the dog went underneath the tank — where there was less armour — the charge would detonate and gut the enemy vehicle.

the anti-tank dogs were successful at disabling a reported three hundred German tanks. They were enough of a problem to the Nazi advance that the Germans were compelled to take measures against them. An armoured vehicle's top-mounted machine gun proved ineffective due to the relatively small size of the attackers and the fact that they were low to the ground, fast, and hard to spot. Orders were dispatched that commanded every German soldier to shoot any dogs on sight, for fear they might be rabid. Eventually the Germans began using tank-mounted flame-throwers to ward off the dogs. They were much more successful at dissuading the attacks—but some dogs would not stop, neither for fear of the fire nor of being burned.

[TheAllMihtyOne]

ya just like that with a wooden stick pointing up from the back that is what my friend told me. amazing what weird things people do during wartimes.

[vengefulnoob]

I think I can trump that... The hitler youth panzerfaust bicycle corps

Formed in 1945, they were given 2 fausts on the handlebars of their bike to destroy tanks with...

[TheAllMihtyOne]

well thats weird but wont the biker get fired by the back blast of the panzerfaust? or meyby thats the point... any way i just turned conscript WOOHOO!!! this is my first wery own topic . any way if u shuld use sone cind of bike bomb its easier than dogs cuse its esier to find some one that can ride a bike then a dog with a empty stomach that lies under tanks. GOD BLESS THE BIKE!

[Lone Commissar]

There were 13 tank destroyer dog units. I'm not sure about them being so effective that the Germans took countermeasures however, the 300 reported Soviet kills is only a fraction of the amount of armour the German lost in total in 1941 and this is reckoned to be overexaggerated. Still it is an interesting piece of trivia. Definitely didn't know about the Hitler Youth Anti Tank Bikes though.

[WartyX]

I read that the anti-tank dogs actually caused more harm than help to the Soviets - they were trained with Russian tanks so they ran to Russian tanks. Okay, my source is the Horrible Histories but it is still feasible 

[221]

Yeh that happened, but it didnt really make more harm to Russians. Because this problem was fixed fast^^.

[WartyX]

Ah okay, that will teach me for quoting Horrible Histories.

[Brewsky]

Dogs? Like real life dogs? Lol

[TheAllMihtyOne]

well i bet they tried with hot dogs before going with the real thing

[Brewsky]

Hardcore.

[vengefulnoob]

Almighty, you just extend metaphors W A Y  T O O  L O N G ! ! !

 this is reallly off topic