US submarine hits underwater object in South China Sea

https://www.kitv.com ^ | October 7th 2021, 9:49 AM HST | By Oren Liebermann, CNN

[Rio]

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/military/sdut-navy-fleet-submarines-red-november-william-reed-2014jul04-htmlstory.html

[proud American in Canada]

Uh-oh.

[proud American in Canada]

Far more important to include CRT and diversity training...

Readiness? Shemdiness!

[airdalechief]

“Indeed. I spent 30 years in ASW and almost never heard active sonar.”

ASW. Me too.

From P5M’s in Nam to P2Vs, P3Cs, and EC130Qs

[one guy in new jersey]

Active sonar would generally be needed to “see” silent things, or all-but-silent things...

A U S. Navy sub or other vessel can much more easily be detected by an enemy vessel if the U.S. Navy sub or vessel is employing active sonar to get a picture of the immediate surroundings.

Most of the time, active sonar is not used. Passive sonar, used more or less all the time, won’t pick up on things that are noiseless or nearly so.

Just some thoughts.

[proud American in Canada]

I can’t tell you how often I have put on makeup while driving.

Woman: Thy name is Vanity.

[proud American in Canada]

That is EXACTLY what happened! LOL

[airdalechief]

Forgot to add. There’s some stupid comments in this thread.

[Paleo Pete]

Interesting. I don’t know much about sonar, just thought it would pick up anything a sub could hit. Radar I’m more familiar with...

[Disambiguator]

It's unclear what the Seawolf-class submarine may have hit while it was submerged.

Probably another submarine. It happens.

[redangus]

Great movie. Had the think like a pirate quote in my office for years.

[omegatoo]

There must be some sort of technological marvel in the works to ameliorate the curse of blindness.

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[Disambiguator]

I wonder if the Chinese subs do a Crazy Li maneuver?

So you're saying the Asian Driver thing extends to Chinese submarines?

;^)

[alternatives?]

I guess I was overestimating the capabilities of our sub. Thanks for the info.

[Seruzawa]

[mylife]

this was the reality of life on a 637 during the cold war.

Fires are fun too.

[Seruzawa]

I remember a sonarman telling me that the the sonar arrays in the Atlantic could hear a Russian Alfa going to sea at Vladivostok. A great story. I’ll bet the Chinese subs aren’t much better. They probably sound like a Model T Ford.

[Seruzawa]

That was on local TV station in LA back in the 70s quite a bit. Loved it.

[Starboard]

Very interesting possibility.

[mylife]

Loads of memories here, Petropavlovsk, what a place.