like the one that popped up in the middle of a US Navy exercise in the Pacific in 2007...
Posted on 08/18/2012 9:59:15 AM PDT by hamboy
Recently there was another media report of a Russian SSN (attack sub) that was alleged to have recently operated undetected in the Gulf of Mexico for several weeks. This attracted the attention of professional submariners (especially retired ones, who could post more freely on the Internet). It was quickly determined that this was likely a made up story as attempts to trace it back to the source ended at the politically funded, as in 501(C)4, web site. The U.S. and Russian Navy refused to comment and attempts to confirm the incident have come up empty. Moreover, no law was broken by having an Akula sub cruise around the Gulf of Mexico in international waters. Indeed, such an event makes it easier for the U.S. Navy to get more money for new submarines.
(Excerpt) Read more at strategypage.com ...
Yes. The use of the word “terrorized” is exaggerated, and overwrought. But I guess it sells.
like the one that popped up in the middle of a US Navy exercise in the Pacific in 2007...
i really don't know, if we were using active SONAR yeah, if we weren't, who knows, DE's are hard to detect and the USN didn't say they knew it was there and sure took a LOT of sh!t for it too... unless you shadow a DE from port for it's whole run, they are damn hard to find once they go deep
according to the Navy... With terrorism the new global threat, a network of radio antennas that let the Navy maintain secure communications with submarines at sea has become yet another Cold War relic.
On Thursday, the Navy will shut off its extremely low frequency radio transmitters in northern Wisconsin and Michigan, saying the 15-year-old system, first proposed in the 1960s, is outdated and no longer needed.
lets put it this way, the leftists that wanted it shut down no longer picks up the ELF signal... it's doesn't take rocket science to pick the ELF signal even if you can't decode it and as far as they are concerned it's no longer in operation question: just exactly what is you source that we can track every submarine in the world over 25'
enquiring minds want to know...
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