When the animal is ... warrior

Bees have the ability to sniff, when trained, they easily detect explosives away from kilometers. But miserably, bees are quite playful, on the way " on duty " to see that flowers are swooping down, causing the signal to go on and on.

Through the narrow slit, a cockroach was released into a room where a secret meeting was taking place. The cockroach carries on the device recording, recording and transmitting immediately those sounds and images to the control center. It may be the content of a fictional film scene, but the military science world is looking to turn similar ideas into reality. The Pentagon (US Department of Defense) decided to implement a rather bold plan: to organize an insect task force, with functions such as scouting, stealing information, and attacking the enemy with weapons Tiny.

The Pentagon is completely serious when it comes to building this insect task force. In mid-March 2006, the DARPA, based in Arlington, Virginia, based on Arlington Defense, announced a contest with the following requirements: how to get an insect to reach a certain point 300 meters away from where it was released; upon arrival, it must stand (or park, lie .) in place for an indefinite period of time, until a new order is received.

Use creatures to detect mines. (Photo: BBC, VNE) The article does not specify which insects, but participants understand that it is best to use cockroaches, because they are very easy to calculate. Other winged insects are also heavyweight candidates, because they are very agile.

Controlling insects is not easy. High-level animals like dogs and dolphins . can recognize and understand some human signals, while insects are bound to give up! But " thick tangerine shells have sharp nails ", scientists have built extremely small biological chips that can be implanted into the nervous system of insects to control them. Chip implantation must be carried out in the larval stage, but so that when they mature, the biological chip will not work. Humans can control the biological chip-carrying insects within themselves, but the control is not as easy as the hand-held buttons on the controller for the toy car running back and forth on the floor. .

At the moment, headache of military scientists seeks to improve the process of controlling insect fighters. They said the biochip implant is much more advanced than the previous solution of wearing or attaching control devices to the back, chest or belly. When an insect has been implanted, its outer part is still used, for example to " carry " a reconnaissance or explosive device, poison .

The mouse has also been used for explosives detection , with an electronic chip that measures heart rate and determines coordinates. However, trained mice did not distinguish between food and explosives. When they find one of them, their heart rate changes the same. And this is a challenge for scientists to apply this method.

Cockroaches, bees, rats, dragonflies . have been tested for aerial and ground missions , however American scientists have not forgotten similar tasks but in the water. The dolphin has been much talked about, now sharks, taking advantage of their ability to smell their blood. Of course, not scientists want to use sharks to search for, rescue victims and injuries at sea, because if they find they will not spare the victims. Sharks are extremely sensitive in detecting the smell of blood dissolved in seawater, immediately determining where the blood comes from and immediately rushing in that direction. At that time, there were biological changes in the shark's brain that, according to scientists, could use artificial effects to create similar changes in their brains.

Imagine, a device attached to a shark's head. Controlled remotely, the device is capable of emitting waves of impact on the shark's brain causing biological changes like when they detect the smell of blood in the water. In addition, this device can " trick " sharks into making them think that there is fresh blood in front, behind, left or right, and slay their lives in that direction. A soldier with a shore-based controller pressed the button in the appropriate mode to control a shark wearing dozens of kilograms of powerful explosives crashing into the enemy ship a few kilometers away.

But that's not what it is today, because right now, people have only been able to trick sharks into having blood in the water, but have not tricked the source of blood from any side, so the fish keeps swimming indefinitely.