Forget Navy Seals. We Have Navy Dolphins
By Wyatt Earp | January 14, 2012
The U.S. Navy’s newest secret weapon? Lieutenant Commander Flipper.
Iran could block the strait with any assortment of mines, armed speed boats or anti-ship cruise missiles but according to Michael Connell at the Center for Naval Analysis, “The immediate issue to get the mines.” To solve that problem, the Navy has a solution that isn’t heavily-advertised but has a time-tested success rate: mine-detecting dolphins.
“We’ve got dolphins,” said retired Adm. Tim Keating in a Wednesday interview. Keating commanded the U.S. 5th Fleet in Bahrain during the run-up to the Iraq war. He sounded uncomfortable with elaborating on the Navy’s use of the mammals but said in a situation like the standoff in Hormuz, Navy-trained dolphins would come in handy.
Now, if we can only get them to use sniper rifles . . .
Topics: The Troops | 7 Comments »
January 14th, 2012 at 7:53 pm
All I want are some frickin’
sharksdolphins with frickin’ laser beams on their heads!Is that too much to ask?
January 14th, 2012 at 8:26 pm
The Navy’s dolphins are awesome. They can do everything from mark mines, to slap weighted cuffs on divers, to shooting divers with a custom .45 attachment.
January 14th, 2012 at 10:17 pm
They are AWESOME….(I know the word is overused but they really are).
January 15th, 2012 at 2:12 am
Didn’t anyone see that episode of the Simpsons where dolphins took over the world? This is how it starts!
January 15th, 2012 at 8:28 am
Are they trained to say, “So long and thanks for all the fish.” before contact?
January 15th, 2012 at 10:15 am
Hey…… He kinda looks like Don Knotts…
The Incredible Mr. Limpet, for those over 50….
January 16th, 2012 at 11:02 am
Wyatt:
I wouldn’t have ANY issue with navy-trained dolphins tagging every single one of those Iranian gunboats with limpets…
And then watching the “fun” unfold.