US military to replace mine-hunting dolphins with robots
 

03-12-12 02:36 AM

Naval programme of training sea mammals to tag mines, begun in the 1950s, will be phased out in favour of machines The US navy is set to replace its team of mine-tracking dolphins with under-water robots, but reassignment rather than redundancy awaits the military pod. Starting in 2017, 24 of the Navy's 80 military-trained dolphins will be replaced by a 12-ft (3.6-metres) unmanned torpedo-shaped ...

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