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Everything about the old story of the idea to arm a large quantity of bats with incendiary explosives, to attack a fire-prone city reads like information that might be fed to suspected moles in a counterintelligence operation. The idea being that you wouldn't knowingly jeopardize real plans, by gambling their exposure among an untrustworthy audience, but, since counterintelligence is an understood expense, allocate s…
I was rather disappointed that this article wasn’t about the worlds first guided missile, that was used to hunt ships in the pacific in WW2 — it was called the Bat. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-N-2_Bat
I believe the V-1 is still the first "guided missile", i.e. self-propelled.
Everything about the old story of the idea to arm a large quantity of bats with incendiary explosives, to attack a fire-prone city reads like information that might be fed to suspected moles in a counterintelligence operation. The idea being that you wouldn't knowingly jeopardize real plans, by gambling their exposure among an untrustworthy audience, but, since counterintelligence is an understood expense, allocate s…
This story was part of a news report sourced by the daughter of a general on NBC. I saw it between 1987ish (I may be off by a year). > The project never recovered from this ignominious retreat, and it was canceled in 1944. It was "cancelled" after a shockingly effective test because the first A-bomb was going to be ready. Multiple projects were going on in parallel. Because bat-instigated fire was still an uncontroll…
This is really a dream i keep getting on and on. In the future we will genetically breed very large eagles, saddle them, and fly them to get from place to place. Everyone in future will have a pet eagle, like everyone has a pet dog now.
I like this dream, but think you need to pair it with a dream of cows the size of elephants as each day the eagle will need to eat a 1000 pounds of meat.