Having been one of those ASW types, I'd love to see something like that at sea. We'd have had that sucker instantly. It would never survive. You can see quite a ways down under in clear ocean waters. End of story.
Besides the fakery, how many here really know the capabilities of current subs, or even the capabilities they had back in the 60s, when I was Navy? Guaranteed, precious few know; also guaranteed, USN didn't stop developing. Neither did Russia.
The dipping sonar back when I was ASW was the AQS-13. A good operator could hear everything down there. Also, there are layers of warmer/colder waters; getting into a layer was easy, if the cable was long enough. Biggest problem was the helo noise, but the Navy developed a helmet that just about got rid of that: couldn't hear anything outside that headgear.
Operator could almost hear a couple crabs "duking it out on the floor". It was pretty easy to tell a sub class from the screw noise, and that's almost impossible to get rid of for a sub. They can be quiet, but not all quiet. Our max range was 20,000 yards, 360 degrees. A ping was 189 degrees, alternating between halves. I picked up a nuke, US, at the end of an exercise, over in Hawaii, at about 20k, tracked him all the way across (40k yards); that nuke boat was clocking in at around 54 kt under water. He was gone in a fairly short time, considering.
Aside from that, the mil does NOT divulge capabilities in any way other than the obvious. For instance, our helo was claimed to have a top end of 166 kt top airspeed. In the Nam, on a rescue up north, I was in one going 210 kt, just below tip stall. That's 199 mph vs 252 mph, roughly. They also hide operations and change history.
Having been one of those ASW types, I'd love to see something like that at sea. We'd have had that sucker instantly. It would never survive. You can see quite a ways down under in clear ocean waters. End of story.
Besides the fakery, how many here really know the capabilities of current subs, or even the capabilities they had back in the 60s, when I was Navy? Guaranteed, precious few know; also guaranteed, USN didn't stop developing. Neither did Russia.
ive heard they can a pregnant whales calf or baby moving around inside the mother from miles away
The dipping sonar back when I was ASW was the AQS-13. A good operator could hear everything down there. Also, there are layers of warmer/colder waters; getting into a layer was easy, if the cable was long enough. Biggest problem was the helo noise, but the Navy developed a helmet that just about got rid of that: couldn't hear anything outside that headgear.
Operator could almost hear a couple crabs "duking it out on the floor". It was pretty easy to tell a sub class from the screw noise, and that's almost impossible to get rid of for a sub. They can be quiet, but not all quiet. Our max range was 20,000 yards, 360 degrees. A ping was 189 degrees, alternating between halves. I picked up a nuke, US, at the end of an exercise, over in Hawaii, at about 20k, tracked him all the way across (40k yards); that nuke boat was clocking in at around 54 kt under water. He was gone in a fairly short time, considering.
Aside from that, the mil does NOT divulge capabilities in any way other than the obvious. For instance, our helo was claimed to have a top end of 166 kt top airspeed. In the Nam, on a rescue up north, I was in one going 210 kt, just below tip stall. That's 199 mph vs 252 mph, roughly. They also hide operations and change history.
But that 'stealth sub' is a joke.
but didjya like my meme?
I did.