One team specializes in swimmer detection, three teams in mine location, and another team in object recoveries. The dolphins and sea lions are trained by five teams of the Navy's Marine Mammal fleet members. The marine mammals used for the Navy's research and operations are cared for by a full-time staff of veterinarians, veterinarian technicians, and highly trained marine biologists. ДЄ bottlenose dolphin responding to its trainer's hand gestures. Navy dismissed these stories as nonsense or a hoax, though they may be taking on the status of an urban myth. military dolphins based on Lake Pontchartrain had escaped during the Hurricane Katrina flooding. In 2005, there were press reports that some U.S. Dolphins have contributed to saving more lives in open water than specially trained life savers. In fiscal year 2007, the United States Navy spent $14 million on research on marine mammals as weapons and marine mammal training programs in object recovery and mine detection and have 75 trained dolphins. The bottlenose dolphins' asset was their highly evolved biosonar, helping to find underwater mines, and the sea lions' asset was their impeccable underwater vision, which can help to detect enemy swimmers. The Navy did many tests with several marine mammals to determine which would be best for the jobs they needed done, with 'more than 19 species.including some sharks and birds' tested, though the bottlenose dolphin and California sea lion were considered the best at what the Navy needed them for. The United States Navy implemented a program in 1960 to work with dolphins and sea lions in order to help with defense, mine detection, and the design of new submarines and new underwater weapons. About 75 dolphins were in the program circa 2007, and around 70 dolphins and 30 sea lions were reported to be in the program in 2019. Navy during the First and Second Gulf Wars, and their use dates back to the Vietnam War. They get some of their dolphins from the Gulf of Mexico. Navy Marine Mammal Program, which is based in San Diego, California.

Navy trains dolphins and sea lions under the U.S. Government public records show that in 2016, five bottlenose dolphins were purchased by the Russian defence ministry from MoscowвЂ™s Utrish Dolphinarium. Russia reportedly intended to used advanced technology to visualise the dolphin's biosonar signals in future military dolphin research. A counter-claim suggests that dolphins died patriotically after going on hunger strikes and resisting their Russian captors. One claim is that the program had been demilitarized prior to the annexation, with all military dolphins either sold commercially or dead by natural causes. Conflicting statements have been made regarding the fate of the dolphins. After the 2014 annexation of Crimea, the Ukrainian dolphin program was taken over by Russia.

In 2012, Ukraine allegedly 'resurrected' the military dolphin program. Iran bought the animals and the chief trainer carried on his research at their new oceanarium. In March 2000 the BBC reported that the Ukrainian navy had transferred their military dolphin project from Sevastopol to Iran. Russian Federation, Ukraine and Iran ДЄfter the fall of the Soviet Union, the Soviet military dolphin program was passed to the Ukrainian Navy. ДЄ soviet military Beluga whale named Tichka twice escaped in 19, crossed the Black Sea and stole the hearts of the residents of the Turkish town Gerze, who called him AydД±n. The Russian military's military dolphin program is believed to have languished in the early 1990s. The Soviet Navy operated a research facility 44вѓ4вЂІ48вЂіN 33в‚4вЂІ08вЂіE п»ї / п»ї 44.5800В°N 33.4023вЋ п»ї / 44.5800 33.4023 to explore military uses of marine mammals at Kazachya Bukhta, near Sevastopol. 1.1.1 Russian Federation, Ukraine and IranДolphins Soviet Union Navy dolphins.

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