Posted on 01/28/2010 1:32:26 AM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has disclosed plans for a deep ocean sensor network that could provide a long-range anti-submarine surveillance capability sufficient to protect 'blue water' Carrier Strike Group operations.
This new initiative, which envisions a distributed system of sensors and sources on or near the ocean floor, harks back to the SOSUS (Sound Surveillance System) deep-water long-range detection capability deployed by the US Navy during the Cold War. It also signals a revival in interest in blue-water anti-submarine warfare (ASW), an area that has largely taken a back seat in the two decades since the end of the Cold War and the demise of the erstwhile Soviet submarine fleet.
SOSUS used chains of bottom-mounted hydrophone arrays, connected by undersea communication cables to facilities on shore, to achieve long-range detections and cue area ASW forces. It is thought that DARPA's latest effort is looking at a deep-water sensor system that would afford a greater level of tactical utility.
In a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Deep Sea Operations (DSOP) released on 15 January 2010, DARPA's Strategic Technology Office suggests that as "technology drives peer-nation parity in traditional domains, the deep ocean offers an unused operational space to achieve significant gains in strategic capability
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Time to ramp up the P-8 (if we really must go there) and activate the VP Navy again.
It hard to protect the target Navy. STS2/SS
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I thought DARPA made a big mistake drilling into that source of energy on the island. It really messed up the space-time thing. And then the airplane broke up in air and crashed there. Oh, wait, maybe I’m thinking of the wrong DARPA......; )
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The P-8 is dead, a victim of Obama's costly, insane social policies. Deep water ASW is also dead, despite what the Navy claims. In the next shooting war our carrier battle groups are going to be hit hard by fourth generation SSKs. Airborne ASW is now at its lowest ebb since 1940. When I was flying aboard P-3s we spent 90% of our time doing blue water ASW, 50-100 hours per month. Today's VP crews are lucky to get 100 hours a year.
The Dems can’t see the threat. Out of site, out of mind.
I was a sonar tech on DLG-34. For those that didn’t get bmwcycle’s reference, a submariner told me there are only two types of ships. Submarines and targets.
If they're so good then they should have no trouble keeping enemy subs off our carriers.
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