Russian Trained Dolphins Deployed To Ukraine War
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Overview of the Russian Navy dolphins deployed to Sevastopol, Crimea, during the war with Ukraine. From the analyst who first broke the story. Overview of history, context and how they might be used. Unscripted as always, just knowledge sharing
Link to my US Naval Institute story news.usni.org/...
Overview of world Navy marine mammal programs www.hisutton.co...
„It‘s very dangerous to give the Dolphin the ability to kill“ best quote
hahah they too smart right
They are prolific hunters in the wild, so technically they already kill. 😁
It's a slippery slope
Squueeeaaak
@@Tadesan Navy "Seal"?
Dolphins are quite capable of killing people without Russian assistance. They just (usually) choose not to.
Who knew that weaponized dolphins would be one of the more realistic things to be depicted in C&C Red Alert 2?
Yeah, I thought the Russian program was all about mind-controlled giant squid.
First thought went immediately to C&C for me too xD
Robert Merle "Un animal doué de raison". 1967.
You all need to read "Johnny Mnemonic". Welcome to the dystopian scifi future.
Russians had trained bear with satchel charges back in WW2, they hoped they will charge the German tanks but they train with Russian tanks so...
As usual, a very interesting chat. The slide listing the swimming speed of different mammals reminded me of a US navy research project circa 1970. Some enterprising naval architect calculated an energy balance between the theoretical resistance of a dolphin (assuming the skin was rigid) versus the available energy in the daily ration of fish the dolphin typically eats. The results were that by over a factor of two, a dolphin should have insufficient energy to reach a fixed destination. The theory was that the dolphin skin was compliant with the water interface. This has the effect of delaying the transition of laminar flow to turbulent flow until much further aft than would be predicted by classic inelastic surface theory. So the goal became to develop a man made skin that could be attached to torpedoes to increase range. The picture I saw was a sandwich of thin flexible polyethelene skins with many small plastic columns or studs to fix the correct thickness. The interstitual volume was filled with a viscous fluid. It didn't work - at least not very well. This project was referenced in the book "The Science of Yachts, Wind, and Water" by H. F. Kay. The research was done at David Taylor Model Basin.
So thats what my man blubber is for? From when we too were high speed aquatic animals.
@@b1laxson I had a daughter who was a competitive swimmer in high school and college. I suggested she could reshape her head to get a competitive advantage - didn't go over too well.
@@kevincook1018 or hat. Suggest she wear a Purpoise built hat. 😃
dolphin.= advanced submarine lol :P
@@b1laxson Surely you mean a *porpoise* built hat🐬😉
I did just have to check it wasn't 1st April.
Russia has trained dolphins, whales, and seals within the Russian special forces. The Dolphins and whales are trained to stay in particular areas while carrying equipment that can monitor naval activities in the region.
Well trained animals in war are really common. We haven't heard much about what trained dolphins do but these animals have been around a long time.
It's strange, but they have always been there.
@@BeKindToBirds Sergeant Reckless being one that springs to mind!
"The U.S. established the Navy's Marine Mammal Program in 1959. It operates out of San Diego, where it trains bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions to "detect, locate, mark and recover objects in harbors, coastal areas, and at depth in the open sea," according to the program's webpage."
That's the 1st thing i did
Imagine going to war and you get killed because a sea doggo attached a beach ball in your back.
Just my luck the dolphin would outrank me lol
Or your submarine gets a dolphin bubblegum tracker.
Embarrassing day at the pow camp
I think that "friends of the dolphin" would be much more interested in capturing and interrogating the diver than throwing a grenade at him.
Quite probably! And I can't imagine a grenade going off in the water nearby is very pleasant for the dolphin or conducive to its continued effectiveness!
If you capture the diver you can’t kill them. You need to toss a grenade before they can surrender.
I heard about one of these animals finding it’s way to a harbor in Norway or something like that and it had a harness on it. It was friendly to people and obviously relied on people to get food. It was so bad the town had to tell people to stop feeding it.
Hvaldimir the beluga! There are videos of him too!
@@japankasasagi The end of having a whale of a time for him when the ppl so meanly just stopped feeding him, he must have thought.
Did the town suspect him of being a russian spy or something?
mecha dolphins incomign
Ever hear of the suicide dolphins in the US navy?
The "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" Reference made my day. :)
there is some real advantages to being able capture the diver alive from spy info to having prisoners of war
I never thought I'd actually hear from the person who broke this story. It's one of the best articles Ive seen come out in a long time
Living in the era of militarized sea mammals. Magical.
i guess we've entered the wacky shenanigans phase of the war.
@@johjoh978 Putin must have been playing the Red Alert games lately.
Red Alert 3 also had dolphin units.
Well elephants, horses, and dogs have been militarized for far longer, so no biggie. Or do the dolphins cross a line?
Tragic is what it is
@@erloriel elephants weren't used much only a couple of times and not very successful contrary all the movies and legends
Could you please, pretty please, do more regular unscripted videos? They provide impressive Insight visually that articles and Twitter just can't compete with.
“It’s likely that some of them are used for intelligence gathering”.
Now that’s a debrief I’d love to sit in on.
“Flipper 25 this Flipper Actual. Request AO report. Over”
(Flipper 25): “ACKACKACKACKA EEEEIIIIIEEEE EEIIIEE!!!”
"Interrogative. You have reached waypoint ACKACKACKACKCKA? Over."
Kind of relieved there wasn’t a famous HI Sutton cutaway 😅
Those pens though look inhumanely small 😢
That's what I kept thinking... Kinda bums me out too
I suspect the animals will be outside the pens most of the time if they're patrolling the harbor.
ye...
I wonder if sea world was a retirement home for US Dolphin’s and Seal lions.
I remember back in the late '90s there was a Navy EOD detachment along with their Dolphins (Mark V or Mark VII, I forget which) training in and around Port Aransas/Aransas Pass,Texas. They were really cool. I got to hang around with them a little bit and even got a couple of their unit t-shirts.
Dolphin : "I'd rather face the Turkish sabres at Sebastopol than trifle with your affections, Miss Heatherington."
Norwegian SFK oppo : Wrong sketch Flippinski, me old mate.
Everyone knows the Russians use trained giant squids; it's NATO that uses trained dolphins. 🤣
(If you're not familiar, this is a reference to the video game "Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2")
@H I Sutton Hi, first time viewing of your video, excellent IMO. Quick question for you please:
In your opinion, was the misfiring of the Silex missile from Ladny in 2015 at Sevastopol, in danger of hitting the dolphin pen, if it was there at the time?
I don’t have all my facts straight so please forgive me if this is a really stupid question.
It is not so easy to get any real information about the basic details of the event from my cursory searches. Most of the articles I read didn’t even name the ship from that event, and many articles use pictures of this misfire, as embedded images for completely unrelated Russian warship stories..
Including articles titled roughly as “successful Russian cruise missile launch”..
Wow lol.
Also, you mentioned the dolphin compressed air gun as delivering compressed air to the target and killing them.. I could be wrong, but that sounds gruesome, and I’d imagine compressed air refers to the me having isn of firing a projectile at the target diver rather than firing a projectile that then delivers compressed air.
Again forgive me if I completely misunderstand the way that you are wording it, but it seems there may have been confusion.
Although it was in the area where the pens currently are, they were not there at the time
Love the content. Good mics are not that expensive and getting one would be worth the investment if you're ramping up YT videos. (blue yeti is a decent one for desk mounted use, and you can get a usb to lightning adapter to use the mic with your phone if needed.) Not hatin' on you, love what you do, the audio just leaves something to be desired. keep up the good work.
I strongly agree on audio. I think Mr Sutton does this for his followers, just hope he starts getting the traffic it deserves and then the revenue.
@@uggiebear1 agreed!
I've said this before, but I have a spare Yeti with some accoutrements sitting around that Mr. Sutton is most welcome to have for free.
@@Archangelm127 a scholar and a gentleman
I think I enjoy the audio given the nature of this content, OSI. Has a barebones, get us the info, field report sound to it.
thx for posting
09:12 we all love Douglas Adams and it’s good to see that Sutton is a friend of mine too.
Very informative, especially for someone like myself who had no knowledge of the use of marine mammals in this environment.
If you feel so inclined I'm sure you could become a cruise ship lecturer as this type of presentation would be ideal and of great interest to cruise ship passengers.
true, this is crazy... thought thi was just submarine content lol
Could these be countered by Sharks with freaicking "laser" beams attached to their heads?
@E Van
I can assure you I am informed... but lets face it, "Flipper-ski" isn't exactly going around digging mass graves or raining shells on hospitals is he?
In the wild dophins regularly attack and sometimes kill shark by attacking the gills
@E Van Calm your tism. The sharks will find you.
@@FallenPhoenix86 Knowing dolphins, the type of war crime I'd expect from them rhymes with "grape" 😕
Looks like C&C Red Alert got the dolphins on the wrong side
Learned alot. Thank you
This war is getting really weird.
Very worrying. The Russian military now has some IQ in its ranks.
Good one
Savage
They're almost reaching triple digits lol
when I was in Russia people conscripted into military service were looked down on because they were poor,basically like high school drop outs and trouble maker's. Also a lot of minor and moderate criminal charges disappeared for them to quantify because your average Russian went to a secondary school or university long enough to find ways around it. Or their parents paid someone off......leaving the absolute bottom of the barrel. The few decent ones are from small towns and poor families and the rest were trouble maker's who's parents wanted them gone from the house
Meanwhile the Nato military still has none ;)
Thanks for the fish - lol
Again, a very informative video. Thanks for doing this video.
I thought effective military use of dolphins was limited to using them as trebuchet ammo. But I was wrong.
Russia; "We have weaponized dolphins."
Ukraine; "We have weaponized toy boats."
I enjoy your well informative accurate and interesting submarine content. This is just a major treat certainly my fave so far.
Glad you enjoy it!
WHO DOES NOT LOVE SUBMARINES RIGHT?
17:21 "All of them are better than a human..., except judgement" They also lack opposable thumbs!
This is the proper sea fleet
If the bouy pulls the diver up fast, that could be lethal itself.
15:52 I remember reading this in an old book, "Behind the Dolphin's Smile". It was written by one of the dolphin trainers on the old show, Flipper, to raise awareness on how Dolphins and other marine mammals are being captured and forced to live inside small tanks.
Excellent video dude most people don't care about real history it's always real nice to see somebody who does
The two Ukrainian under water saboteurs were captured in the Azov sea in the last few days.
Dolphins trained to remove mouthpieces from divers 16:00 sound like an area denial weapon. If they were deployed to an enemy harbor, they'd force divers out of the water till dealt with, it'd be hard to tell who sent them, and harming them might create bad PR.
Are we completely sure we outrank the sea mammals on judgement? One did defect.
This whole video feels like April fools joke. I know it is not, but it really feels like one.
I even dive, and I still wanted to giggle at the idea of doplhin giving me a buoye under water.
Can u imagine getting the bends or rupturing a lung cause a dolphin thought it would be funny to send u full speed to the surface? Nightmare fuel lol
You're a diver and you didn't know that a dolphin can bludgeon you to death? Huh. Go find your instructor and slap them for the rest of us.
also the ones I've seen are like fish hooks.....you don't want to get hooked
Excellent and very informative video - Hvaldimir was all the rage over here in Norway a couple of years ago.
The militarized seals with toy AKs are still my favorite.
"It defected."
That's exactly what it wants you to think.
Thanks for the quality of this video and its content!
Also, that Beluga whale deserting, chosing peace and retrieving people's phoned is a hero. Humans should take note.
Is there really much of a future for these types of programs when underwater drones have become so accessible to the major military powers? Especially for harbor defense we have the sonar tools to detect if something has passed through, at that point it's only a matter of interception.
Dolphins have such an acute sonar to imagery resolution that they can tell if a person is healthy, pregnant, etc. My main problem is with the anti-diver aspect of these programs. Dolphins have been known to save people during thousands of years, seeing them run opposite their natural inclination makes me unhappy.
@@mikecimerian6913 make no mistake. Wild dolphins do not care about saving people, they will attack. I’ve heard this from a fisherman that fishes GOMEX for work. They don’t play around.
What do you suppose the range of a drone is vs. a dolphin? Is your imagination really so limited?
@@mikemontgomery2654 Wrong witness, their nets make them enemies.
@@mikecimerian6913 no actually. These guys don’t use nets, they use long lines. Even then, private sport fisherman get told the same things. Swimming with any kind of dolphin or whale species, in the wild, is never a good idea. Even captive orcas are a no go. The stories you’ve heard are actually the one-off situations.
"This would act as a buoy and the diver would be more or less immobilized."
Well, they had two options. I for one am glad they chose the buoy and not the weight that sucks the diver down the bottom of the ocean.
Very interesting information. Be advised that I had your subscription set to alert me of all uploads however upon viewing this video I noticed that "the bell was not selected " this I wasn't getting any notifications about new ccontent. I found this video in my suggested.
Hval is pronounced [va:l] in Norwegian. The name Hvaldimir is a pun, and combining of the words hval+ Vladimir (Putin).
Only two gripes on an excellent video- mixed gas rebreathers could get divers to 200m if necessary. And your gray seal is maybe 2x too big on the scale chart. Incredible video.
True, but such rebreathers has been developed for commercial use and have been slow to spread through to the military. Traditionally combat divers would use a closed circuit apparatus with pure oxygen to infiltrate harbors. In my days we were told to never go any deeper than 10 meters with these rigs. Some nations will have been experimenting with rebreathers, but it's quite likely both Russia and Ukraine will be equipped with a lot of old, soviet style technology and equipment.
"intelligence gathering"
Didn't the US program involve trying to get the dolphins to actually communicate verbally with their trainers by decoding their vocalizations (but fail in this regard?)
Very cool . Thank you for sharing .
Where you at man? No new vids in a month
now thats a deadly porpoise
Man, I had that song stuck in my head since I clicked the link 😆.
The US Navy uses them for harbor control/security of ships. They are trained to detect and alert trainers of any divers or mines that might have been deployed. We used to see them after they'd escort the Harry S. Truman out of Norfolk and other places, they'd show themselves and jump out of the water and play in the wake. Edit: ah I commented before you mentioned it at 4:35
They have syringe on front and inject enemy diver with venom
It looked like there was a boom/net system deployed that could close the harbour mouth - WW2 style. Would the dolphins patrol this? It would solve the friend or foe issue, as any diver coming through or over the net would be considered unfriendly.
It carries a dolphin knife and cuts the divers air lines.
I get the impression those dolphins are not like the fun and friendly ones at SeaWorld. 😬
I have nothing I can add, but I like to support. Therefore, all hail the algorithm.
lol I first thought this was a funny Command & Conquer Joke
thanks a lot for a non-biased view on a very interesting topic! :thumbs up:
Do you have any details on the sharp hook fishing net story you mentioned? As in any sources or anything I could read about its use?
British tactic used in Malaysia/Singapore etc during period of Indonesian confrontation
13:16 - 14:16 This whole segment is absurdly hilarious.
For a short period there were dolphins at Cam Ranh Bay, Viet. in late 70 early 71.
Thanks again very interesting stuff
the unmanned Hippo-class shallow water submarines are scary too.
Rogue combat trained dolphin could make an interesting thriller/horror movie.
This is some serious James Bond stuff.
"From Russia with Love", because "The World is Not Enough" but Ukaine was like "Dr. No", we have the "Licence to Kill" and "Die Another Day".
Octopussy.
Bond movies were pure distilled propaganda, no wonder you still see them that way.
genius
You won the internet yesterday, Kilian. Superb.
Most of us know: Dolphins are better than humans in every way. Not just swimming. 🐬
You missed the Sea Lions there too. They are kinda fat, so they don't work as hard or as much as the dolphins. The dolphins are like happy toddlers running around for fun.
I cannot imagine who came up with a swim speed of 16 knots for a dolphin, but I know for a fact that their actual top speed is certainly several times that. I have no doubt that they will lazily cruise at somewhere around that, but if they want to, they can frankly run circles around anything going that speed. Geoff Rohde
Excellent video. Can you recommend any other good websites or books that focus on marine mammal programs please?
I hope Dolphins actually like bread! 😀 7:11
hahaha =)
Ok, but where are they keeping the Giant Squid?
No Lasers? We at least expect some freaking Lasers in this day, and age. ( Dr. Evil will be everso disappointed.)
sir will you please explain how submarine moving part's like periscope and propeller shaft sealed under high pressure water to resistance leaking water? specially propeller shaft!
White flag with the blue cross is code flag "Mike", means exactly what your boss says it does. 15 meters diving limit means you don't have to be smart enough to figure out decompression tables. Pens, like ships, need to be both fabricated and repaired and how are they hauling them around, anyway?
Check out Dr. John C. Lilly's research with the dolphin, if you dare!
Somewhere in Russia there's long line of dolphin trying to get out of the country.
Plot twist. The dolphins plan to actually occupy Ukraine and Russia is just a pawn.
There must be at least some counter measures against these animals??? I can imagine a little underwater-speaker sending out painful sounds that chase them away. As the divers ear drums are not in direct contact with the sea water, they would not be damaged by this. An alternative solution could be a speaker system (or several) playing the very typical sounds of a swimming diver, and drop that system around before entering the "operation zone"???
Probably something exists
Somewhere on UA-cam there is a video of a beluga whale retrieving somebody’s cell phone that they dropped in the water. I wonder if that could be an escapee from this place.
Did the Navy SEALs ever work with seals?
Youre asking the real questions the world needs to know. God i really hope so.
Sea lions, yes...
Sir, how about an analysis of the Baltic strategic situation when it will have become a NATO pond?
Hi H.i., thanks for letting me know everything i wanted to. So was Flipper CIA?
Russian media released illustrations on how the Kerch bridge was defended. And among all defense measures such as x-ray, machines, air defense batteries, boats and divers there were also depicted dolphins. If this is correct we would expect to find dolphin pens close to the Kerch bridge, as well.
How would Flipperski handle a depth charge?
Hey mister Sutton, there is something I'm interested in. There's a lot of tall about the fact that Chinese submarines are louder than their western contemporaries, but I can't find much information on why. Could you please make a video on your thoughts about why the PLAN's vessels fall behind other nations in this respect?
Fact:
Actually it's the other way around.
Before the latest cold war , in the war game the Chinese sub targeted & checkmated the US carrier as a positive kill.
Didn't even see it coming.
@@loktom4068 yup. Even an Australian submarine in a war game managed to simulate the sinking of a carrier. That’s the thing though, it’s only ever been accomplished in war games. We have the physical evidence to prove that it’s not as simple to sink a carrier as getting a handful of torpedoes off. The USS America took a whole ass month to sink, albeit they weren’t trying to sink it as quickly as possible, but even then, after 4 weeks of having torpedos, cruise missiles, bombs, and damn near any other weapon they had on hand and wanted data for, smacking her in the face, with 0 damage control, they still had to resort to planting charges onboard to finally put her under. A Chinese sub might hit a carrier, but it’s highly unlikely to sink it, and it’s even less likely to survive the immediate aftermath. CBG’s don’t usually go around without submarines guarding them after all.
And Chinese submarines are notoriously noisy. Only the most recent submarines coming out of China could be referred to as “quiet” by western standards. They had a lot of problems isolating the machinery inside the hull, from the hull itself, and have had problems with a notoriously noisy gear in the gear train they tend to use.
I like to assume that North Korea has everything that other countries have but produced by the ACME company.
The US must have an AR Verizon of the underwater AK. I'm sure divers on both sides are trained in aquatic mammal elimination tactics.
Maybe but the biggest problem would be locating them. They are fast mobile and stealthy. In murky water you would not see them before they tagged you
Iirc the US buys a foreign made one.
We buy a lot of foreign guns ofc lol
I know there are waterproof variants of the MP5, but I don't know about Western ARs. If you can do it to an AK, though, I'm sure you can do it to the standard Western platforms. /shrug
They are even driving tanks.
I love your videos. Could anybody please point me to where I can learn more about this stuff spesifically history in relations to divers etc in warfare? I assume most is coldwar stuff? An extremely facinating topic!
One interesting source is the book "Blind Man's Bluff" by Sherry Sontag. It is primarily the story of US special operations submarines during the cold war. However, these submarines used saturation divers down to 850 feet on spy missions.
Red alert 2 irl
Fascinating.
I just looked at satellite imagery of a few Russian naval bases and see every now and then like 15 circles of black tubing floating in the water tied together with buoys and there’s always a small boat with them, is that related or if not what the hell is it? It’s at most Russian naval bases
Brilliant!
Looking forward to the next video on Blue Whales trained to attack NATO subs. Thank you for this. I needed something light hearted today.
in the black sea there have been a lot of dead dolphin sightings lately. that is quite strange, since dolphins are very rear. this might be linked to the activity of the russians.
god that'd be terrifying having a fullgrown beluga whale come through the darkness in the water and chase you down
The U.S. Navy was test this idea back in the late 50’s early 60’s training dolphins to find torpedos and retrieve other underwater ordinance.