On October 24th local time, Russian Satellite Communications quoted Sergei Muhammato, senior lecturer in the Department of Oceanography, Department of Geography, Moscow State University, as saying that trained dolphins (originally called combat dolphins) can protect the safety of the port of Sevastopol . In addition, he also said that using trained dolphins to perform military missions not only existed during the Soviet era, but also developed in the United States in the 1960s.
This also reminds people of the Red Alert 2 game that I played in my childhood. In this game, the Allies can build dolphins, and dolphins can use sonar to attack enemy ships in the game. It is worth noting that in this game there is also an animal in the Soviet camp - giant squids that can entangle enemy ships, while only Allied dolphins can use sonar to stun the squid and unwrap it.
In reality, since dolphins are one of the highest animals in the world (and one of the few animals that can recognize themselves in the mirror), and with their strong speed and mobility in the water, dolphins have been trained by humans to engage in various tasks, including animal performances and rescue of those who fall into the water, and also include military uses.
In the military field, as early as the late 1930s, the US military began to think about how to use dolphins to fight wars. During the Cold War , the US military established a dolphin training base in San Diego to train dolphins to perform various military missions. It is said that during the war in the 1960s, the US dolphins discovered more than 50 enemy troops in 12 months, so that their own troops could easily annihilate the secretly infiltrated enemies. In addition, the United States has also trained dolphins to identify mines and explosives in the water. Dolphins can easily detect the above threats that are difficult to detect even mine-sweeping equipment, so as to facilitate the underwater troubleshooting of their own troops; even dolphins can carry mine-sweeping gear and perform the mine-sweeping mission alone.
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union also established its own dolphin training base in the Port of Sevastopol. On February 24, 1966, the Soviet military aquarium was officially established. In addition to performing military tasks such as mine clearance and alertness, the Soviet Union also studied dolphins to analyze ships and bionics design in the field of torpedo . After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the dolphin base in Sevastopol Port was taken over by Ukraine, and related dolphin training and scientific research were also converted for civil use. In 2012, the Ukrainian Navy resumed training of dolphins and other animals in the Sevastopol military port to undertake underwater military tasks. After March 2014, the Russian Navy successfully took over the Ukrainian dolphin combat troops.
In this Russian-Ukrainian War, the Black Sea coast and the Crimea region were affected by war, and it was not successful for Russia to defend this region. Since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukraine war, Russia lost several ships in this area, including the cruiser "Moscow", and a drilling platform was also destroyed by the Ukrainian army using the anti-ship missile in June. On the Russian Navy Day on July 31 this year, the Ukrainian army used drones to fly over a 260-kilometer blockade area and dropped the bomb at the entrance of the commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. The subsequent incident was frequent explosions of , the Russian military base in Crimea, so that the Russian army had to say that the above accident was caused by a fire to cover up its own negligence in defense.
Since September this year, the Russian army has discovered traces of the abandoned unmanned boats (picture below) outside the Sevastopol port many times. In addition, the Crimea Bridge explosion on October 8, which is crucial to Russia, once again exposed the Russian army's negligence in the protection of strategic targets. Relying on various advanced equipment and underwater sonar, it is still impossible to find secret savages trying to infiltrate the Russian defense line. Therefore, the Russian army launched dolphin troops to strengthen the security of the Sevastopol port in order to prevent the Ukrainian underwater frogmen or unmanned boats/submarines from the Ukrainian army from Black Sea Fleet home port again. However, from the perspective of repairing the sheep, the "holes" caused by various reasons in the Black Sea area in the past few months have been too large.
