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These days you can't believe anything unless an official source is provided. This is it: https://www.niwcpacific.navy.mil/marine-mammal-program/ https://www.niw

• theonemind 5y ago
  Some skepticism seems warranted for official sources as well!
  • saalweachter 5y ago
    I mean, the essence of the Cold War was each side trying to find any advantage they could, while pretending everything they tried worked. Maybe the dolphins don't work well, maybe the enemy knows it, maybe they don't. Maybe the risk it works dissuades them from trying. Maybe the anti-dolphin countermeasures they carry are cumbersome and lead to their discovery. Maybe the dolphins work for once; I'm sure not every trial failed. When you're throwing unlimited piles of other people's money at a problem, why not try some long shots?
• peakaboo 5y ago
  Hah - I wish it was that easy to know what the truth is...
• Labo333 5y ago
  I think I can believe most but that part is really weird: > For protection against enemy divers, dolphins will swim up to the infiltrator, bump into them and place a buoy device on their back or a limb using their mouth. The buoy then drags the outed diver to the surface for easy capture. When trained sea lions perform the same maneuver, they use a kind of handcuff with their mouths to attach the buoy Imagine if we did this on land: monkeys or dogs handcuffing or tasing people! Surely they wouldn't be deployed against civilians and I know there have been exotic animals travelling with military (like bears) but training animals to fight humans with TOOLS looks incredibly hard.
  • T-A 5y ago
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2022/01/12/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-deadly-military-dolphins/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2022/01/12/the-un...
  • ghosty141 5y ago
    This truly sounds a bit sketchy. From an outsiders perspective this sounds like a big april fools joke.
  • YarickR2 5y ago
    World War II , anti-tank dogs (dogs with AT mines strapped to their backs).
    • hkt 5y ago
      If memory serves, the story goes that the soviets trained their dogs with soviet tanks - so when they released the dogs into battle, they turned around and ran for their own tanks. Possibly apocryphal, but quite funny.
      • rocqua 5y ago
        It wasn't so much about the design of the tank as I recall. Instead it was about one side using diesel tanks, with the other side using gasoline in their tanks. The dogs turned out to be trained on the smell of the fuel, which caused them to be attracted to the wrong vehicles.
  • gherkinnn 5y ago
    We might never know what is currently in use, but I'm convinced that any wild and wacky idea has been tried by somebody. Some fun ones off the top of my head: - Meet Wojtek the bear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(bear) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(bear) - AT-Dogs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog - Ships made of ice and saw dust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk - Funny tanks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart%27s_Funnies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart%27s_Funnies - Pink camouflage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountbatten_pink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountbatten_pink - Gay Bomb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb - LSD Trials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziqpwkhqTRs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziqpwkhqTRs - Portable nuclear launcher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device) Also dogs don't need to attach handcuffs, it suffices that they chomp on your leg. And that they can be trained for easily enough.
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• wolverine876 5y ago
  > you can't believe anything unless an official source is provided Official sources are necessary but not at all sufficient. They are highly biased.