Image courtesy of Chip Somodevilla, accessed via Getty Images, Wikimedia Commons, illustrated by Snopes. During a news conference in May 2026, a reporter asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and ...

As US-Iran tensions escalate around the Strait of Hormuz, a journalist at a Pentagon briefing this week asked top US officials an out-of-the ordinary question: whether Tehran could deploy "kamikaze ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, denied Tuesday that Iran has “kamikaze dolphins.” But Hegseth did not rule out that the U.S. military has ...

Military dolphins have long been used to detect mines and intruders Add as a preferred source on Google In this photo released by the US Navy on March 24, 2003, a trained bottlenose dolphin belonging ...

A Pentagon briefing regarding Iran took an unusual turn on Tuesday when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had to refute an assertion that Iran has trained marine mammals ...

U.S. defense officials downplayed reports on Tuesday, May 5, that Iran has deployed so-called "kamikaze dolphins," while stopping short of addressing whether the U.S. uses marine mammals in military ...

"I cannot confirm or deny whether we have kamikaze dolphins, but I can confirm they don't," Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in a briefing. Hegseth's comments came in response to news reports, ...

War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Iran does not have so-called "kamikaze dolphins" — dismissing an unusual claim that emerged from recent reporting on Iran’s potential tactics in the Strait of Hormuz.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Tuesday rejected rumors that Iran is using trained dolphins armed with explosives to block the Strait of Hormuz — but left the public wondering whether the US might ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth denied reports that Iran is deploying mine-carrying dolphins in the Strait of Hormuz. When asked about U.S. military dolphins, he said he “can’t confirm or deny” whether ...

The term “kamikaze dolphins” is not one hears that often, but that is exactly what War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, addressed in Tuesday’s ...

In a press conference on Tuesday, a reporter for the Daily Wire asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “clarify these reports about kamikaze dolphins” being used in the war on Iran. Joint Chiefs ...