The Navy gets some of its 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 Moscow’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 Iran's 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 Īfter the fall of the Soviet Union, the Soviet military dolphin program was passed to the Ukrainian Navy. Ī Soviet military Beluga whale named Tichka twice escaped in 19, crossed the Black Sea and was admired by the residents of the Turkish town Gerze, who called him Aydın.

The Russian military's dolphin program is believed to have languished in the early 1990s. The Soviet Navy operated a research facility to explore military uses of marine mammals at Kazachya Bukhta ( 44☃4′48″N 33☂4′08″E / 44.5800°N 33.4023☎ / 44.5800 33.4023), near Sevastopol. 1.1.1 Russian Federation, Ukraine, and Iranĭolphins Soviet Union Navy dolphins.

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