Deadly Dolphins!

The Ukrainian military has apparently lost three of its trained military attack dolphins in the Black Sea!

 

These Dolphins go where no soldier will go. What the K9 unit does on land, these dolphins do in the sea.

The first question one needs to ask is, how do you train dolphins for military use?

The dolphins and sea lions are trained by five teams of the Navy's Marine Mammal fleet members. One team specializes in swimmer detection, three teams in mine location, and another team in object recoveries. The quick-response goal of this fleet is to mobilize a team and be on site within 72 hours. Dolphins are trained much as police dogs and hunting dogs are. They are given rewards such as fish on correct completion of a task. Dolphins are trained to detect underwater mines and enemy swimmers and then report back to their handlers.

It turns out though that the Dolphins swam away from their handlers during a training exercise earlier this month.

 

It is believed that the dolphins may have swum off to mate with wild dolphins, former soviet naval officer Yury Plyachenko told RIA Novosti. He said that when this has happened in the past, they've come back in about a week.

The dolphins are trained to find underwater mines (which have been done in other military programs including Russia and the U.S.) but in the Ukraine, they are supposedly also trained to kill enemy divers with knives and pistols attached to their heads, according to RIA Novosti.