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>If a mine or other weapon is detected, the dolphin returns to its handler, but who places mines there? are those animals actually having missions or they jus

>If a mine or other weapon is detected, the dolphin returns to its handler, but who places mines there? are those animals actually having missions or they just stay prepared?

krisoft 5y ago
They are on guard dutty. Do you have the same question about human military guards? 99.9% of the time they are just standing around “doing nothing”. If the trainers are any good they regularly excercise the dolphins with simulated “attacks”. > but who places mines there? Potential enemy saboteurs? Countries in the west has a long history of military infiltrators who are trained to swim/float to enemy ships and place limpet mines on them. These attacks are relatively low-tech, besides the limpet mines everything else can be bought from general sporting good / diving stores for it. Therefore we can assume such attacks are widely available to our enemies (large and small). Here is a few examples from history of such attacks: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Jaywick https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Jaywick https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Frankton https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Frankton Obviously all these documented cases are from the second world war, and they used folding kayaks. You can assume that a modern infiltrator has access to improved gear to stay underwater longer, devices to help them swim faster and some will have access to rebreathers too so they won’t leave a bubble trail.
ovi256 5y ago
Yes, they're prepared to defend against enemy combat divers placing mines. *In peacetime, they defend against enemy infiltrators gathering intelligence. There's a long history of combat divers, or frogmen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decima_Flottiglia_MAS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decima_Flottiglia_MAS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Crabb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Crabb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Frankton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Frankton There are many such stories. One of my favourites is of the jovial, slightly portly Italian diplomat Luigi Ferraro (in reality a frogman under diplomatic cover) during WW2 in neutral Turkey, who at night would go out to a nearby port, swim out and place limpet mines on British ships transporting vital chrome for steelmaking to Britain. Yes, let's go assemble high explosive timed devices, alone, then swim, at night, and place the devices on defended enemy ships. He sank three.

>If a mine or other weapon is detected, the dolphin returns to its handler, but who places mines there? are those animals actually having missions or they just stay prepared?

krisoft 5y ago

They are on guard dutty. Do you have the same question about human military guards? 99.9% of the time they are just standing around “doing nothing”. If the trainers are any good they regularly excercise the dolphins with simulated “attacks”. > but who places mines there? Potential enemy saboteurs? Countries in the west has a long history of military infiltrators who are trained to swim/float to enemy ships and place limpet mines on them. These attacks are relatively low-tech, besides the limpet mines everything else can be bought from general sporting good / diving stores for it. Therefore we can assume such attacks are widely available to our enemies (large and small). Here is a few examples from history of such attacks: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Jaywick https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Jaywick https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Frankton https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Frankton Obviously all these documented cases are from the second world war, and they used folding kayaks. You can assume that a modern infiltrator has access to improved gear to stay underwater longer, devices to help them swim faster and some will have access to rebreathers too so they won’t leave a bubble trail.

ovi256 5y ago

Yes, they're prepared to defend against enemy combat divers placing mines. *In peacetime, they defend against enemy infiltrators gathering intelligence. There's a long history of combat divers, or frogmen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decima_Flottiglia_MAS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decima_Flottiglia_MAS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Crabb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Crabb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Frankton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Frankton There are many such stories. One of my favourites is of the jovial, slightly portly Italian diplomat Luigi Ferraro (in reality a frogman under diplomatic cover) during WW2 in neutral Turkey, who at night would go out to a nearby port, swim out and place limpet mines on British ships transporting vital chrome for steelmaking to Britain. Yes, let's go assemble high explosive timed devices, alone, then swim, at night, and place the devices on defended enemy ships. He sank three.