PRESENTED BY THE DOMESDAY BOOK OF DOGS Home Page Remote-Controlled Dogs. Dogs, particularly big dogs, have been used in warfare for millennia - at first to create mayhem amongst enemy formations and then later still as messengers between areas under fire. According to The Black Vault , U.S. security forces developed a completely novel way of employing dogs in the theatre of war known as the ‘Remote Control of War Dogs (Remotely Controlled Scout Dog)’ programme. In 1974 the dog-handlers trained their charges to respond to three different tones emitted on a radio receiver: a 400 Hz sawtooth tone, telling the dog to change direction; an 8oo Hz tone with a 50% duty cycle, instructing the dog to drop and stay; a 2,000 Hz warbling tone, for recall to handler. Ceasing the tone was the instruction to the dog to obey the command. It is, perhaps, astonishing that the dogs were actually able to learn these commands. The recall and the ‘down-stay’, as the Ame...