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If you think that it will be about the supply of military personnel and police officers with quality honey, then you are mistaken. Army and police repeatedly considered the use of bees in solving specific tasks. Including combat. All that man ever invented, he certainly considered from the point of view of “a how can this be used to kill yourself like that? “with an ax, as it turned out, you can not only cut trees, but also cut the skull a fellow from a neighboring unfriendly tribe, and from a man’s bow it’s much easier to shoot than a deer. Did not stand aside and animals tamed by him. The ancient Assyrians were released into the ranks of the infantry the enemy of fighting dogs, horses became the basis of cavalry, and elephants were tanks of the ancient world. Along with horses used camels, in the first world war 25 thousand pigeons flew through front line, replacing radio communications. Exotic fighters Used man and very exotic representatives of the fauna. Hannibal in the naval battle of Pergamum (184 BC) threw on the decks of enemy ships pots with poisonous snakes. During World War Two Americans were developing a use project in combat purposes of bats (Project “X-ray”. It was supposed to Japanese cities drop bombs filled with thousands of bats. Each carried 17 grams of napalm. The authors of the project believed that flying “saboteurs”, landing on Japanese houses, will burn Japan. Practice has shown that the atomic bomb turned out to be much more effective.) Q 1960s, a unit appeared in the US Navy, training dolphins and sea lions. To battle rats were cooked. The man did not ignore the bees. Combat bees In the Roman chronicles there is a story about barbarians, thrown during the retreat on the path of the Roman legionaries barrels of honey. Honey turned out to be a “surprise”. The soldiers who had tasted it were seized with diarrhea and vomiting When at night the barbarians attacked the Roman camp, exhausted the soldiers could not provide decent resistance. In the Middle Ages city defenders dumped beehives right on the heads of the storming walls of soldiers. People of the 20th century turned out to be more inventive. Police Bees Distinguished as always, Americans. Initially, policemen tried to use bees. Honey plants insects can distinguish hundreds of odors. Moreover, enough train only one bee to respond to a given smell, and she in unknown way shares this information with all the inhabitants of the hive. Several bees introduced narcotic plants (contact with they were encouraged by sugar). The students were released, and soon the whole the hive flew in search of a “sweet” opium poppy or hemp. Micro-transmitters have been developed by technicians, which were equipped with individual insects. After that remains just keep track of where most bee cops fly, and go to destroy the illegal plantation, and the owner – to pack in jail. When the project is completed, the Afghan drug dealers and the Colombian drug lords will have to tight. Sapper bees The military liked the idea, only instead of opium poppy or hemp they began to drag the bees into the smell of explosives. If police are interested in poppy fields, then the military are interested in mines. By the territories of Afghanistan, Iraq, Mozambique, Angola and other countries, survivors of military conflicts, millions of mines are still scattered, on which people are still dying. To cleanse these lands sappers will need more than a dozen years. Composed with bees card will reduce this period by several times. Pentagon counts on it very much and since 1998 annually allocates for The “bee” program is several tens of millions of dollars.
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