US Navy Deploys NEW Weapon in Persion Gulf: PROTECT SHIPS IN PORT ! Stop Sabateurs !

[MegalosSkylaki]

Actually the Navy has been using these "searchers" for enemy sabateurs for three decades.

But a "new version" has the ability to "see" in very low light, dive up to 650 feet, have directional location, tie a bouy to underwater divers legs and allow a potential sabateur to be "reeled in" to the surface, raise alarm of intruders, and maybe prevent another "USS Cole " incident in the Gulf.

The deployeyment in the Persion Gulf is done by the Explosive Ordinance Disposal Mobile Unit and the Navy Special Clearence Team One , out of San Diego.

The Navy is experimenting with a version that can immobolize a Torpedo down to almost 1,700 feet.

MegalosSkylaki

[Knothead]

Amazing. You know, this is not the first time the military has used (or attempted to use) animals in warfare.

During WWII, the military had the idea to use bats to carry small bombs, and drop them all over Japan. It was discovered that for the bats to go into flying mode all at the same time, they would have to come out of hibernation....so the Army brass decided to run a beta on the idea...and froze the bats,(with bombs attached,) dumped them out of the airplane, in the belief the bats would wake up, mid-air, and go dropping their payloads..

Most of the bats failed to awaken, and plummeted into the ground, where they exploded.

But a few of them did indeed awaken, and flew all over the place; causing quite a bit of damage on the U.S. base that they were released over.

Nobody was seriously hurt, although a general's car bought the farm.

[MegalosSkylaki]

BF Skinner was involved (I think) in the traing of "Bombardier Pidgeons".

He would train Pidgeons inside the tail-fins of a heavy air bomb to peck at the guidence controls of a bomb that had been dropped over a target. This would deflect the falling bomb toward the target and explode it.

This was a career with .errr..limited prospects of advancement.
Actually just err...limited prospects.

No wonder they got back at him by naturally pecking at light colors anyhow which helped embarrass Behaviourism because he was training them to do what evolution had already prepared them to do--"species prepared behaviour".

The Army Air Corps dropped the idea which bombed out when the military didn't like a birdbrain to do a better job.

Psychologically, they were not prepared.

COGNITIVE DOOOOOOG

[MegalosSkylaki]

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But it contains the coolest blood of all,

The blood of Sea Lions. Sea Lions roar not!" --
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