Again a reference to fighting dolphins (dolphins) found, after I in March 2006 reported ever thought about was:
(online Artikel.de) - The U.S. Navy began in the second Iraq war, a so-called battle dolphins.
trained since 1959, the U.S. Navy captured wild dolphins for military purposes and used them for the first time in the Bay of Cam Ranh in the Vietnam War. The nose, equipped with special weapons marine mammals should there enemy Diver killed. Combat dolphins were during the Cold War to one of the best kept military secrets to the outbreak of a veritable arms race between the USA and the USSR. While about 120 Russian military dolphins have been sold after the collapse of the Soviet empire the most part, continued the U.S., the animals including the Gulf War in 1991 and in 2000 at a NATO exercise in the Baltic Sea. Even the navy of India is to have combat dolphins, which can selectively attach mines to enemy ships. The military call to mind the curiosity and the distinct advantage of locating assets of the animals. If the small whales discovered a suspicious object under water, it means he can a probe mark or it floats to the surface and are by signs to understand what he has discovered. As a reward, there is something to eat.
for the Dolphin "Takoma" Iraq was used for only two days but already great to end. The 22-year-old bottlenose dolphin disappeared supposedly equal in his first mission. Perhaps "Takoma" too curious and was torn apart by a mine. Whether escape or killed, the result remains the same. In the wild, has "Takoma" almost no chance of survival
But somehow the sounds for me anyway as science fiction. "Nose Arms
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