![]() ![]() In 2019, a Beluga whale with an attached camera was found off the coast of Norway making friends with local people. Russia has also used marine mammals in the past for military purposes. Rumors circulated during the Vietnam War that the Navy trained dolphins to attack and kill enemy divers, although the Navy claims no dolphin has ever been trained to kill a human, according to Frontline. ![]() program had over 100 dolphins, as well as numerous sea lions and beluga whales, and an operating budget of $8 million dollars,” the episode stated.ĭolphins played a role in the Vietnam War and the Persian Gulf, patrolling anchored vessels with their sonar and alerting trainer guards of enemy swimmers. Dolphins have been used by US military beforeīoth the United States and the Soviet Union raced to train marine mammals during the Cold War, according to the PBS Frontline Documentary. Their exceptional low-light vision and underwater directional hearing make them useful for surveillance and defense missions, the NIWC says. □□ #StandWithUkraine □□ /lCXZ3gySdu- Ministry of Defence □□ JWhat can dolphins do?Īccording to a PBS Frontline episode “A Whale of a Business," dolphins can detect and mark underwater mines, as well as detect enemy swimmers.īottlenose dolphins use echolocation to find objects underwater, and therefore have the most sophisticated sonar known to science, according to the Naval Information Warfare Center. ![]() Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 23 June 2023.įind out more about Defence Intelligence's use of language: ![]()
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