Photos show Navy’s mine-sniffing dolphins being transported on Air Force cargo plane
Jared Keller
Mar 6, 2020 1:25 PM EST
It may not be sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads, but transporting half a pod of dolphins across the country in the belly of a cargo plane is quite a sight to behold.
Photos published Monday to the popular Air Force amn/nco/snco Facebook page show personnel assigned to the 60th Maintenance Squadron at Travis Air Force Base in California tending to six Mark 7 Marine Mammal Systems — better known as bottlenose dolphins — nestled in berths aboard a C-17 Globemaster III transport.
The dolphins are part of the Navy's Marine Mammal Program headquartered at the SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific in San Diego, which has been training bottlenose dolphins to ward off enemy swimmers and sweep for mines on the ocean floor since the 1960s.
https://taskandpurpose.com/military-tech/navy-dolphins-transport-c17-globemaster
