12 minutes agoRussia defends military dolphins against underwater attacks
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Russia has deployed military dolphins trained at its Black Sea Sea naval base under all odds of protecting its navy from an underwater attack - according to several new analysis of satellite images, writes The Guardian, and Periscope is followed. U.S. Marine Institute (USNI) revised satellite images [...]
The U.S. Marine Institute (USNI) revised satellite images that the sea base at the port of Sevastopol and concluded that two dolphins were sent to base in February at the beginning of Ukraine's Russian invasion.
Russia has tradition of training dolphins for military purposes, using them to detect objects or divers of the enemy.
Sevastopol naval base counts for the Russian Army as it extends south to the Crimea, which Moscow was annexing in 2014. According to U tests The SNI, most of the Russian ships are located there and while they're missile rays, are potentially vulnerable to underwater attacks.
During the Cold War, both the U.S. and Russia had developed the use of dolphins whose ecoloch capacity enables them to place underwater objects such as mines.
The satellite images of 2018 revealed that Russia had used dolphins at its naval base in Tartus during the Syrian War.
The dolphins are not the only marine creatures Russia has trained. A white whale was spotted near Norway's bay in 2019 and is believed to have been trained by the Russian Navy.
