[artichokegrower]

Hope the Chinese don't hear about this

[stylin19a]

but it’s ok to kill 4200 bald eagles a year

[M Kehoe]

Our enemies are laughing at us, and our allies are embarrassed for us.

5.56mm

[heterosupremacist]

So our brave Navy members should give away a huge advantage for the sake of whales???

GRRR! ~ Stupidity is re-defined every day by the US Armed Forces...

[Diogenesis]

How were they harmed?

Harmed like the US children dying of tuberculosis,
and EV-D68?

Harmed like the children raped by Islamic terrorists,
who are THEN protected and released by Crooked Lynch
and Crooked Comey?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Uh, huh.

[Chickensoup]

Tell the whales to evolve.

[Talisker]

The protected zones showed a “bias toward U.S. waters,” the court said, with several zones on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States but none on the Pacific coast of South America and only a scattered few in other waters.

That's because US waters are the limit of US jurisdiction, judge.

Also, there's this thing - the National Defense Act? It has some authority in this matter, too.

[PIF]

“The result is that a meaningful proportion of the world‘s marine mammal habitat is under-protected,” Judge Ronald Gould said in the 3-0 ruling, which would also set standards for future renewals of the program. He said the government had failed to comply with a law that requires it to make sure its peacetime oceanic programs have “the least practicable adverse impact on marine mammals.”

Naturally, the Russians and Chinese are following suit ...

[headstamp 2]

Ignore them and crank up the dial.

[headstamp 2]

I assume all the other Navies of the world will comply also.

[Hodar]

No one is asking the right questions, such as:

What level is required for the mission?
Is there benefits in learning to master low level sonar?
Is there an optimal sonar frequency or power level that accomplishes the mission without harming marine life?

We should find a way to navigate without destroying the ear drums of all sea life within miles of a sonar ping.

[Stosh]

Only a matter of time before that fat bastard in Pyongyang orders the Norks to start making subs in the shape of whales.

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[dfwgator]

[sasquatch]

My gosh,
Why are they allowed to use sonar at all?
Everyone knows it’s lethal to whales and finches.

[PLMerite]

Whales just be needin' some headphones.

[Lou L]

This is ridiculous. The majority of ASW operations; i.e., looking for submarines, is performed with passive sonars—hydrophones that only listen.

[tet68]

It sure isn’t Sparta any more.