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Re:Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large c... by Waterluvian on Monday August 17, 2020 @02:54PM (#24190516)
This has me really curious about a bigger topic: “what are some massive wartime expenditures (money, resources, attention) that ended up being completely ineffective?”
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Re:Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large c... by KineticLensman on Monday August 17, 2020 @03:32PM (#24190937)
Soviet anti-tank dogs [0] in WW2. Although in truth the expenditure wasn't massive.

> the Soviets used their own diesel engine tanks to train the dogs rather than German tanks which had gasoline engines.[5] As the dogs relied on their acute sense of smell, the dogs sought out familiar Soviet tanks instead of strange-smelling German tanks

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog

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Re:Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large c... by emmelaich on Monday August 17, 2020 @07:29PM (#24193522)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environm...

Cost billions; more than the Manhattan project. Obsolete soon after deployment due to ICBMs.

(Taking your "war time" to include cold war time)

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Re:Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large c... by hawk_ on Monday August 17, 2020 @05:20PM (#24192279)
My favorite example of this is the Spruce Goose.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules

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Re:Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large c... by eduardo_f on Monday August 17, 2020 @06:47PM (#24193166)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk
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Re:Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large c... by snowwrestler on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @04:56PM (#24204245)
The canonical example is probably the Maginot Line--to such an extent that it became a general metaphor for that sort of thing.
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Re:Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large c... by gresrun on Monday August 17, 2020 @07:45PM (#24193626)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_R._Mickelsen_Safeguard... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguard_Program
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Re:Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large c... by pjc50 on Monday August 17, 2020 @04:20PM (#24191551)
Most of the German "wunderwaffe", really. The V2 programme killed more during its manufacture than it did as targets.
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Re:Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large c... by Negitivefrags on Monday August 17, 2020 @05:14PM (#24192198)
There is a comedic book on this called "My Tank is Fight"
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