Thursday, October 19, 2023

Putin deploys combat dolphins to take on Ukrainian commandos in Black Sea

"Putin’s navy has moved its fleet of combat dolphins closer to the front line in the Black Sea.
The specially trained marine mammals had already been deployed to help guard his Black Sea Fleet’s main base at the Sevastopol port in Crimea.
But satellite images now indicate floating pens have been installed at Novoozerne, closer to where Ukrainian special forces have made incursions and landed on the Crimean Peninsula.
The dolphins are thought to have been deployed to detect enemy divers, plant limpet mines, or for reconnaissance.
‘Trained dolphins are considered effective against military divers.
‘There is no human, however athletic or well trained, who can out-swim them. And their inbuilt sonar gives them an even greater advantage.’....footage shows how dolphins have been trained to use underwater guns since Soviet times...Rare archive footage showed a dolphin attacking a diver.
‘The man had no chance in this battle,’ viewers were told.
‘It was next to impossible for a diver to get to ships and stay unnoticed if dolphins were patrolling them.’." Metro

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