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These days you can't believe anything unless an official source is provided. This is it: https://www.niwcpacific.navy.mil/marine-mammal-program/
I think I can believe most but that part is really weird: > For protection against enemy divers, dolphins will swim up to the infiltrator, bump into them and place a buoy device on their back or a limb using their mouth. The buoy then drags the outed diver to the surface for easy capture. When trained sea lions perform the same maneuver, they use a kind of handcuff with their mouths to attach the buoy Imagine if we d…
Reminds me of the dogs the Russians trained to deliver bombs to the Germans. However, in the chaos of war, the dogs would get scared and run back to the owners with the bomb, killing the Russians.
> ...the dolphins use their extraordinary biological sonar to detect hazards beneath the surface, whether tethered to the sea floor or buried beneath sediment. Isn't this, like, job for the drones?
I wonder what PETA has to say about it.
These days you can't believe anything unless an official source is provided. This is it: https://www.niwcpacific.navy.mil/marine-mammal-program/
I think I can believe most but that part is really weird: > For protection against enemy divers, dolphins will swim up to the infiltrator, bump into them and place a buoy device on their back or a limb using their mouth. The buoy then drags the outed diver to the surface for easy capture. When trained sea lions perform the same maneuver, they use a kind of handcuff with their mouths to attach the buoy Imagine if we d…
- Meet Wojtek the bear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(bear)
- AT-Dogs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog
- Ships made of ice and saw dust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk
- Funny tanks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart%27s_Funnies
- Pink camouflage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountbatten_pink
- Gay Bomb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb
- LSD Trials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziqpwkhqTRs
- Portable nuclear launcher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
Also dogs don't need to attach handcuffs, it suffices that they chomp on your leg. And that they can be trained for easily enough.
>If a mine or other weapon is detected, the dolphin returns to its handler, but who places mines there? are those animals actually having missions or they just stay prepared?
Do you have the same question about human military guards? 99.9% of the time they are just standing around “doing nothing”.
If the trainers are any good they regularly excercise the dolphins with simulated “attacks”.
> but who places mines there?
Potential enemy saboteurs?
Countries in the west has a long history of military infiltrators who are trained to swim/float to enemy ships and place limpet mines on them. These attacks are relatively low-tech, besides the limpet mines everything else can be bought from general sporting good / diving stores for it. Therefore we can assume such attacks are widely available to our enemies (large and small).
Here is a few examples from history of such attacks:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Jaywick
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Frankton
Obviously all these documented cases are from the second world war, and they used folding kayaks. You can assume that a modern infiltrator has access to improved gear to stay underwater longer, devices to help them swim faster and some will have access to rebreathers too so they won’t leave a bubble trail.