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Iran Manufactures Sonar-Evading Submarine
Fars News Agency ^ | November 29, 2007

Posted on 11/29/2007 12:27:07 PM PST by Zakeet

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To: 17th Miss Regt

Reminds me of the joke:

You know why the new Iranian navy has glass bottomed boats...

So they can see the old Iranian navy.


21 posted on 11/29/2007 12:43:48 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: Zakeet
Sonar is an active technology using induced sound to reflect off objects in the water. Unless they have some technology allowing them to be non-reflective to sound (not as easy as Radar) then their sub must either not be in the water or hiding against a larger reflective surface (like the bottom).

Being "silent" against listening technology is another subject entirely.

22 posted on 11/29/2007 12:46:44 PM PST by Ben Mugged (Thanks Mom for not considering me a "choice".)
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To: Zakeet
Iran must have gotten around to reading, The Hunt for Red October.
23 posted on 11/29/2007 12:50:20 PM PST by DejaJude
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To: Zakeet

Probably on the same level as their new jet fighter announced this fall.


24 posted on 11/29/2007 12:50:26 PM PST by nuke rocketeer (File CONGRESS.SYS corrupted: Re-boot Washington D.C (Y/N)?)
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25 posted on 11/29/2007 12:50:49 PM PST by tx_eggman ("Believing without loving turns the best of creeds into a weapon of oppression" Eugene Peterson)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

LOL!! Probably sounds like an old John Deere underwater.


26 posted on 11/29/2007 12:50:54 PM PST by Constitution Day (Everything was fine until membership lost its privileges)
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To: Constitution Day

Mohammed! Have the crew don their headphones of stealth!

27 posted on 11/29/2007 12:52:46 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Zakeet
My 2c....

I'd imagine that every country with a sub force would describe it as "Sonar Evading". What would the point be, otherwise?

I'd be concerned about this threat. Iran would only need to get lucky, once, and I'd imagine that a shallow, muddied environment like the Persian Gulf is a pretty good place for diesel subs.

Please note that I'm not a submariner, but I did read "Hunt for Red October" while staying at the Holiday Inn last night.

28 posted on 11/29/2007 12:53:29 PM PST by wbill
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To: Zakeet

I’m betting our sub forces have already recorded it, tracked it, run a dozen weapons / torpedo drills for it and are keeping a close eye on the future sunken wreck.


29 posted on 11/29/2007 12:53:46 PM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: Red Badger; Wuli

As I said, there is no such thing as a ‘sonar evading’ sub. There’s only levels of quiet. And we are the proud owners of a pre-eminent silent service.


30 posted on 11/29/2007 12:57:27 PM PST by farlander (Try not to wear milk bone underwear - it's a dog eat dog financial world)
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To: Zakeet

They probably got it from the same place I got my squadron of invisible, undetectable jets.


31 posted on 11/29/2007 12:57:51 PM PST by Hacklehead (Proud graduate of the Klingon School of Interpersonal Communication.)
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To: wbill

Follow the link under Post #19. Everything you need to know.


32 posted on 11/29/2007 12:59:34 PM PST by farlander (Try not to wear milk bone underwear - it's a dog eat dog financial world)
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To: Zakeet
They’ll be found when the Captain pulls a “Crazy Mohamed”. Five times a day he’ll turn towards Mecca.
One away.
33 posted on 11/29/2007 1:06:56 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: farlander

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=492804&in_page_id=1811


34 posted on 11/29/2007 1:09:32 PM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: Zakeet

In the event of conflict, this boat will disappear never to be seen or heard from again.


35 posted on 11/29/2007 1:22:13 PM PST by Mariner
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To: Zakeet

How do i doubt this?
Let me count the ways!!

Radar, in many respects, is much easier to evade. SONAR, by virtue of the nature od the technology and the medium in which it operates, is extremely difficult to avoid, if not virtually impossible.

IMO, Ahmanutjob has been hittin’ the happy juice again!


36 posted on 11/29/2007 1:24:21 PM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: central_va

“Captain, I’m hearing something on sonar, but I’m not sure what it is - it sounds like... ‘Squeak, squeak, squeak’... reminds me of a tricycle.”


37 posted on 11/29/2007 1:25:34 PM PST by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: massgopguy
They’ll be found when the Captain pulls a “Crazy Mohamed”. Five times a day he’ll turn towards Mecca.

LOL. Will they have a silent call to prayer?

38 posted on 11/29/2007 1:26:10 PM PST by DejaJude
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To: magslinger

Ping!


39 posted on 11/29/2007 1:27:52 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Scrape the bottom, vote for Rodham!)
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40 posted on 11/29/2007 1:30:54 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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