# Royal Navy mistakes ‘farting whale’ for Russian drones

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# UK: Royal Navy mistakes ‘farting whale’ for Russian drones

In a bizarre development, it has come to light that the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom mistook a ‘farting whale’ for Russian drones.

According to a[report](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/32995393/navy-fears-russian-drones-farting-whale/) by _The Sun_, the marine animal sparked fears of a Russian attack on the UK’s nuclear submarines. The Royal Navy thought that Russia dropped a listening device onto the seabed in North-West Scotland between the Isle of Raasay and Applecross

Two sounds were intercepted by the Navy senors within a span of a few days. It was believed that Russia deployed its deep-sea research unit GUGI to track the UK’s nuclear submarines.

However, fears were mitigated when a Navy official confirmed, “We have been analysing the sounds and now believe it was a marine mammal. A whale.” Reportedly, it is a common occurrence to mistake ‘whale trumps’ for ‘enemy subs’.

[https://www.opindia.com/news-updates/uk-royal-navy-mistakes-whale-farts-for-russian-drones-details/](https://www.opindia.com/news-updates/uk-royal-navy-mistakes-whale-farts-for-russian-drones-details/)