Posted on 03/09/2009 7:20:38 AM PDT by boughtwithaprice
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon said Monday that Chinese ships shadowed and maneuvered dangerously close to a U.S. Navy vessel in what appeared to be an effort to harass the American crew.
The Obama administration is protesting to the Chinese government. The protest will be delivered to Beijing's military attache on Monday.
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spooning is big with them!
One way to do a dipping Active Sonar is to use a blimp (as in the Goodyear Blimp).
SURTASS must go at slow speeds to find stuff...
A Blimp might be able to go up to 40+ knots and then maintain a position to dip the sonar.
In point of fact, blimps were used in WWII to find German/Japanese Submarines (though mainly German U-boats).
Currently platforms that may provide Active Dipping Sonar are limited by weight and time over the area to hunt the sub... (Helicopters or V-22 Osprey).
There are dipping passive sonars... These are airborne systems... (At least to my knowledge)
So you were on SURTASS ships also? When I was on them, there was not enough room to house more than a couple extra bodies. If they have reduced the crew size to accomodate a security detachment, why don’t they have them?
Yes I know, but these ships are not designed to dip sonar, LFA is the closest they have.
They added the ability to have a "dipping sonar", but that was only a passive system.
This was at the time SDI or STAR WARS was bounced about...
Fast forward about 30 years and you have SURTASS and other systems...
We most certainly had a Det without exceeding the COI. Also, these days, an MSC-operated vessel can get a USCG waiver to carry a SecDet above and beyond the COI limit.
I’ve heard of TACTAS a long time ago. I got started with the SURTASS program in ‘84.
Which ships did you sail on?
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