All About the Military Dolphins of the US (And Now Russia)

In what is easily one of the strange twists in the military putsch of Crimea , theRussians have seize controlof Ukraine ’s navy dolphin fleet . Yes , dolphins . The chronological record of dolphin military story is in reality teeming with improbable tales , so let this be your templet to the cetacean Cold War .

The “ dolphin arms wash ” begin all the way back in the 1960s , when the US and the Soviet Union were vie in just aboutevery realm of military engineering possible . Amidst all the concealment , here is what we know about each side ’s train dolphinfish capabilities .

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The American Dolphins

Half a century ago , the Navy ’s Marine Mammal Program begin training a whole zoo of dolphin , beluga whales , sea lions , and other ocean creatures for subaqueous tasks — evensharks with military genius implantshave been considered , the latter quite recently . Of naturally , it was the agile and intelligent dolphin that showed some of the most hope . In Vietnam , the Navy had five dolphinfish that patrolled the waters around ships , alerting sailors to swimming enemies trying to embed a bomb .

Trained dolphin are also no stranger to the Persian Gulf . In the 1980s , six dolphins patrolled the harbor in Bahrain , escorting US flagships and Kuwaiti oil tankers . When the US was upset that Iran might seek to jam a strategical sound to the Persian Gulf in 2012 , retired full general Tim Keatingmentioned our dolphins again .

The Navy now keep several dozen dolphins off the sea-coast of San Diego , train them to detect mine . “ Apparently they ’re taught to hound for mines and drop off acoustic transponders nearby . Then , the Navy use the information to identify mines and send out human divers to blow up them , ” Gizmodoreported at the time .

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The Soviet/Russian Dolphins

In additional to being able-bodied to notice mines like their American counterparts , Soviet dolphins were allegedly trained to attack divers with harpoon or knife attached to their backs . They also playact as devil dog kamikazes carrying mine that would rub up on the keel of enemy vas . “ Those dolphins could even distinguish between the sound of the propellor of strange submarine and a Soviet one,”according to Viktor Baranets , who work in the Soviet armed forces .

Soviet dolphin grooming ask place in Crimea , so Ukraine inherited the dolphin fleet after the looseness of the Soviet Union . With time , the military programme was largely disbanded . Many of these dolphins were sold to marine museum around the world . In 1999 , some of these last dolphinswere sell to Iranbecause their flight simulator had no money to run them anymore .

But , in recent years , Ukraine had shown sake in reviving the computer programme , evenannouncing in 2012 an ambitious planto train killer dolphins with knives on their capitulum . But that never seems to have gotten off the ground because they were design todisband the dolphin programthis April — that is , until the Russians decided to take over , stand for to revitalize it . “ The work will save up unique scientific evolution that were abandoned due to Ukraine ’s reluctance to finance the research in the field,”boasted Pravda .

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Escape of the Killer Dolphins?

If anything better captivates the public imagination than the musical theme of “ killer dolphins , ” it ’s “ run away killer mahimahi . ” Last class , report emergedthat Ukrainian dolphin trained to “ attack enemy combat swimmers using extra knife or pistols fixed to their head ” had escape into the Black Sea . That , in the end , turned out to be all a humbug .

But careful chronicler of dolphin military history might have found analog withthe fib of American dolphinsescaping during Hurricane Katrina . These toxic flit - carrying dolphins were supposedly to prepare to belt down underwater spies — or , given their escapee status , unsuspicious divers in the Gulf of Mexico . TheUS military has vehemently these mahimahi assassinsexisted or hightail it .

As outlandish as the details are , these escaped dolphinfish tale have a kernel of unearthly verity at their magnetic core , which is the trueness that even dolphin have been muster in into military service . fin may not be so friendly . [ The Atlantic , National Journal , PBS Frontline ]

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