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Birds and bombs are a popular combination: https://www.military-history.org/feature/pigeon-guided-missiles.htm https://www.military-history.org/feature/pigeon-

• p3rls 2y ago
  It's interesting how we're sorta circling back to these concepts with drones today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog
• perihelions 2y ago
  Bats too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb - "Tests were used to determine how much napalm an individual bat could carry, determining that a 14 g (0.5 oz) bat could carry a payload of 15–18 g (0.53–0.63 oz)..." Similar ideas were (perhaps apocryphally) used in the medieval ages, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_of_Kiev#Drevlian_Uprising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_of_Kiev#Drevlian_Uprising ("Olga_of_Kiev#Drevlian_Uprising") - "Olga then instructed her army to attach a piece of sulphur bound with small pieces of cloth to each bird. At nightfall, Olga told her soldiers to set the pieces aflame and release the birds. They returned to their nests within the city, which subsequently set the city ablaze. As the Primary Chronicle tells it: "There was not a house that was not consumed, and it was impossible to extinguish the flames, because all the houses caught fire at once."[22]"
• dredmorbius 2y ago
  Birds, bombs, fire, and vengeful Kievans as well: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_of_Kiev#Drevlian_Uprising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_of_Kiev#Drevlian_Uprising>