Russia has placed dolphins at the entrance to a key Black Sea port that could be used for combat and to counter Ukrainian divers' attempts to sabotage Russian warships.
Since the 1960s, the U.S. Navy has trained dolphins and sea lions to help guard against underwater threats. According to
, dolphins have the most sophisticated sonar known to science, making it relatively easy for them to detect mines and other potentially dangerous objects on the ocean floor that are hard to detect using electronic sonar.The U.S. Navy marine mammal training program, based out of San Diego, was declassified in the 1990s.
that they’d come across a mammal that was part of a Russian naval training program, according to media reports. The whale was dubbed “Hvaldimir” by locals — a combination of the Norwegian word for whale, and the first name of the Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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