For the last 30 years, the US Navy has been involved in highly secret research programmes to study dolphins and to train them to detect enemy mines, attach tracking beacons and explosives to enemy ships and submarines, find and locate lost ordnance and to guard military bases. see more
A dolphin gives the inside scoop on what the Navy really does with the largest contingent of captive marine mammals in the world. see more
There has also been a great deal of concern about the way dolphins have been treated by the Navy. see more
A battalion of sea lions and dolphins, especially trained by the U.S. military, is expected to see service if war breaks out in Iraq. see more
Dolphins hunt for mines in gulf waters Trained animals helping Navy clear vital port of Umm Qasr. see more
For thousands of years, man has exploited animals and used them to wage war against others. see more
The Navy plans to increase the size of its marine mammal programme significantly in the years to come. see more
Even war has rules. It is evil, unethical and immoral to use innocents in war, because they cannot understand the purpose or the danger, their resistance is weak, and it is not their conflict. see more
Dolphins trained to kill for the Soviet navy have been sold to Iran - but what they will do in the Persian Gulf is a mystery. see more
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What does the military use the dolphin to. see more
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In 1967, the Point Mugu facility and its personnel were placed under a newly formed organization which was to become the Naval Undersea Center (NUC), with headquarters in San Diego, California. see more
The dolphin's exquisitely sensitive sonar has long captured the imagination of Navy scientists. see more
Evidence about Soviet marine mammal defense programmes is even harder to come by, the best source to date being a CIA report leaked to Jack Anderson of the Washington Post in May 1981. see more
Evidence about Soviet marine mammal defense programmes is even harder to come by, the best source to date being a CIA report leaked to Jack Anderson of the Washington Post in May 1981. see more
The US Pentagon has enlisted the aid of animals as weapons and sensors for wartime since world war two, with some experimentation earlier. Pigeons have been used to guide missiles, crickets to detect enemy troops, bats, beetles, dogs, sea lions, whales, dolphins, and more. see more
The Navy's Marine Mammal Program began in 1960 with two goals. First, the Navy wanted to study the underwater sonar capabilities of dolphins and beluga whales to learn how to design more see more
In the Iraq war, highly trained cetaceans helped U.S. forces clear mines in Umm Qasr's harbor. see more

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