The explosive rat, [1] also known as a rat bomb, [2] was a weapon developed by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) in World War II for use against Germany.

Dec 16, 2019 · In one the craziest operations of all, British spies devised exploding rodents to sabotage Nazi factories. Rat bombs were the furry brainchildren of the British special operations executive (SOE), according to The Guardian. A secret agency geared toward aiding the resistance, the SOE partly inspired the James Bond spy novels.

Oct 25, 2023 · The British intelligence during World War II devised a daring strategy, “Operation Squeaky Bomb,” aiming to disrupt German operations using explosive rats.

Feb 15, 2012 · Exploding Rats. By 1941, Germany had already subjugated half of Europe, the Luftwaffe was raining bombs down on the cities of Britain, and U-boats were inflicting terrible losses all along the Allied shipping routes. Britain needed a new weapon, a way to hinder the increasingly threatening Germans in any way possible. The cat bomb had failed.

Nov 29, 2017 · British scientists stuffed dozens of dead rats with explosives, detonators and fuses to act as a disguised bomb. The idea was to get French Resistance fighters and Special Operations Executive...

Jul 10, 2012 · But the most exotic device was the “explosive rat”. A hundred of the rodents were procured by an SOE officer posing as a student needing them for laboratory experiments. The rats were skinned,...

Jul 24, 2020 · On the bright side, the discovery of a big box of rat-shaped fiery death gave the Nazis cause for alarm, inspiring a sudden fear of dead pests. German forces started scouring camps for potential rat bombs, and as the Guardian reports, SOE files would go on to state that the concept of "hundreds of rats the enemy believed were distributed on the ...

The aim was to blow up the enemy's boilers by lying the rat on the coal beside the boiler, with the fuse being lit when the rat was shovelled into the fire. They were never used, as the first...

During World War II, the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) developed a weapon called the explosive rat or rat bomb. The idea was to fill rat carcasses with plastic explosives and...

Jan 23, 2022 · An exploding rat, developed by British secret agents during WWII. Rat carcasses like this would be filled with plastic explosives and planted in the boiler rooms of German factories. Factory workers would find the dead rats and shovel them into the fire, thereby triggering a …