Russia has placed trained dolphins at the entrance to a key Black Sea port to help protect a Kremlin naval base, a military analyst says.
Sarasota, Florida marine patrol officers captured video of a group of dolphins leaping out of the water alongside their boat on April 17.Russia has placed trained dolphins at the entrance to a key Black Sea port to help protect a Kremlin naval base there, suggest satellite photos analyzed by a naval analyst.dolphins were placed at the entrance to Sevastopol harbor, the most significant naval base in the Black Sea, according to the imagery.
The dolphins could be trained to perform tasks such as preventing divers from infiltrating a military base undetected. Both the U.S. and Russian military have trained marine mammals to complete such tasks. "This could prevent Ukrainian special operations forces from infiltrating the harbor underwater to sabotage warships," H I Sutton, a submarine analyst wrote in
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