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 »
All I want are some frickin’
sharksdolphins with frickin’ laser beams on their heads!Is that too much to ask?
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.
They are AWESOME….(I know the word is overused but they really are).
Didn’t anyone see that episode of the Simpsons where dolphins took over the world? This is how it starts!
Are they trained to say, “So long and thanks for all the fish.” before contact?
Hey…… He kinda looks like Don Knotts…
The Incredible Mr. Limpet, for those over 50….
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.