The Navy Is Depending on Dolphins to Keep the Strait of Hormuz Open - Global - The Atlantic Wire
Iran could block the strait with any assortment of mines, armed speed boats or anti-ship cruise missiles but according to Michael Connell at the Center for Naval Analysis, “The immediate issue [for the U.S. military] is to get the mines.” To solve that problem, the Navy has a solution that isn’t heavily-advertised but has a time-tested success rate: mine-detecting dolphins.
January 14, 2012, 7:59pm
