Another funky idea.

[Wreford-Brown]

Yes - mines and enemy saboteurs diving in naval harbours.
If you believe the conspiracy theorists they are also armed with toxic darts to put the saboteurs to sleep so they would then float to the surface, and a number of them escaped when hurricane Katrina hit the US coast:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005...sa.theobserver

At least we now know who was on the grassy knoll...

[gordonmull]

Originally Posted by bigboywooly

Wasnt that the Russians
Trained the dogs to find food under T34s so would explode underneath
When they let them loose in battle against the Germans they turned tail and ran under the T34s as thats what they had been trained on

I could have sworn it was the other way round but I could so very easily be wrong! Whatever side it was I rate it as the most amusing military c**k up I've ever read about.

Come to think about it we should really have a thread about that. I'd love to see what little gems of stupidity folks have found out. Sure there's the usual XXI boat going down in a flurry of toilet paper but i bet there's a few absolute beauties that many of us haven't heard. Could call it The Adventures of Bernard...

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Wreford-Brown

Yes - mines and enemy saboteurs diving in naval harbours.
If you believe the conspiracy theorists they are also armed with toxic darts to put the saboteurs to sleep so they would then float to the surface, and a number of them escaped when hurricane Katrina hit the US coast:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005...sa.theobserver

At least we now know who was on the grassy knoll...

LOL....they never cease to amaze me

[Wreford-Brown]

I think they're listening to us. This was in the UK newspapers today:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...-saboteur.html

[Jankowski]

they have this for a reason..........

http://world.guns.ru/assault/as95-e.htm

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Wreford-Brown

I think they're listening to us. This was in the UK newspapers today:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...-saboteur.html

Well spotted that man

[nemchenk]

The Anti-Tank Dogs were not a complete disaster:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-ta...e_Soviet_Union for example...

[Jimbuna]

Not according to the dogs version of the story

[danzig70]

Originally Posted by maillemaker

OK, so everyone poo-pooed my idea of floatable radio transmitters to lure away bad guys, or allow a radio transmission to be sent out after the sub left the area.

But last night, after having escorts shooting at my exposed periscope, I had another fun though.

What if the sub carried a bunch of external, weighted buoys that stuck out of the water looking like....a periscope!?

Being pursued by escorts? No problem. Don't drop a noisemaker, drop a periscope buoy!

I can just see the escorts and merchants having fits as there are twenty or so periscopes bobbing in the seas all around them!

Steve

Reminds me of the "cry baby" on the show Firefly.

[Wreford-Brown]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Not according to the dogs version of the story