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The pigeon bombers with the mechanical pecking. In WW2 they needed bombs which hit stuff. Bombs missed badly especially at sea. So they proposed a pigeon guided bomb. Because pigeons can be trained to deliver messages. Infact with a row of lights a pigeon will always select the lit up light if it offers a reward at 100 percent with simple training. So they put three pigeons into a bomb and they would peck at a lit up screen of the target guiding the bomb on to it through its other engineering. The radio control was short range from a plane being shot at. Enter the pecking pigeon. Similar to the first dog in space. Except dogs were more hazardous. The pigeon was never used in the end. The training takes longer than the demand of dropping bombs. The pigeon is real messy. The shit corrodes the mechanics. Storing the bombs with the birds getting them to location.
But there is a pigeon guided bomb. Because pigeons bomb everything.
Have they made mechanical birds yes it goes back to Archimedes Owl. Are all pigeons robots, no, not the one's in pigeon pies, but they can be turned into bombs.