"It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No. It's Rocket Cat!!" Topic
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 ColCampbell  | 06 Mar 2014 8:06 a.m. PST |
Just saw this news article about a 16th Century artillery manuscript. link Jim |
| Great War Ace | 06 Mar 2014 9:23 a.m. PST |
How silly. Those are not "jet packs", they are incendiaries carried by animals. Put a flaming pot on the back of a bird or cat and turn them loose and they will, of course, naturally run/fly straight into the enemy town, camp, whatever, and catch combustibles on fire as they die. Ludicrous idea, and heinous as well…. |
| Rapier Miniatures | 06 Mar 2014 9:51 a.m. PST |
Pigs are good, chaos ensues and after battle bacon is ready cooked. |
| darthfozzywig | 06 Mar 2014 10:25 a.m. PST |
No more heinous than, say, lobbing a 50-pound rock at another person to pulp them to death or stabbing them repeatedly with a sharp piece of metal. Pigs are good, chaos ensues and after battle bacon is ready cooked. Plus, you don't have to tip the delivery guy. |
| drummer | 06 Mar 2014 10:43 a.m. PST |
Captain Paddy Graydon attempted mules as a bomb-delivery vehicle in the ACW. link |
| darthfozzywig | 06 Mar 2014 11:00 a.m. PST |
Typical Western thinking, sending an animal to do a man's work. |
| GarrisonMiniatures | 06 Mar 2014 3:03 p.m. PST |
Still like the dogs the Russians trained as tank killers. Attach explosives, set them off against tanks… pity they used Russian diesel engined tanks in the training exercises rather than captured German petrol engined tanks… |
| gregmita2 | 06 Mar 2014 11:20 p.m. PST |
Darthfozzywig, hardly just western. Tying stuff to animals was quite common:
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| Patrice | 07 Mar 2014 2:55 a.m. PST |
In 1950 in Indochina, at least one French army post was attacked with petrol-soaked burning cats. Viet Minh soldiers thrown them into the post, the mad cats ran everywhere and ammunitions exploded. |
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