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To: fso301

I don’t know about that. I’m not sure I can get a non classified answer here, but how close can you pin down a passive sonar signal at 100 miles? I cannot imagine it is good enough for a targeting solution.

Of course on the converse, I cannot see how a torpedo in a curtain of bubbles will be able to detect anything outside for guidance, and there’s no way you are going to have a tethered torpedo at this speed or range.

Guidance overall could be the limiting issue for how serious a threat this really is. Perhaps that limitation is why they have even brought it into daylight. Could be they have already determined that the military uses are impractical.

There’s a lot of interesting questions surrounding this tech.


26 posted on 08/24/2014 7:06:49 AM PDT by drbuzzard (All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.)
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To: drbuzzard
I don’t know about that. I’m not sure I can get a non classified answer here, but how close can you pin down a passive sonar signal at 100 miles? I cannot imagine it is good enough for a targeting solution.

At 100 miles, you'll probably have to send an anti-submarine rocket and/or ASW helo out after it. In fair seas I imagine the wake created by such supercavitating object will be very prominent and guide the pilot straight to it's source.

31 posted on 08/24/2014 7:18:27 AM PDT by fso301
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