[A.A. Cunningham]

[SmithL]

Submarines are hard to find? When did this happen?

[BIGLOOK]

Detection....ping

[gondramB]

Flashback: Toshiba betrays Country and the U.S. selling silent submarine technology to Soviets

"On May 27 1987 the Japanese police arrested two senior executives of Toshiba Machine, who had been in charge of designing and exporting machine tools to the Soviet Union, for selling four nine-axis in 1982-1984 and 4 five-axis milling machines in 1984 to the Soviets, in violation of COCOM provisions. The executives admitted the charges. Based on the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Law Toshiba was banned from conducting business with communist bloc nations for one year, and C.Itoh. a Japanese trading company was similarly banned for three months. The one year ban for Toshiba Machine was the most severe punishment ever issued based on the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Law. Exports to communist nations account for 12% of Toshiba Machine's total exports or about 5 billion yen."

http://www.japanlaw.info/lawletter/april87/fdf.htm

[Rockpile]

But, but, but---what about all the FR CinCPac wannabees who laugh off potential dangers from the foreign diesel boats? They won't like this story.

I'm just glad that the REAL Navy takes the threat seriously.

[Doohickey]

So is this with the NAU on or off? I'd guess "on".

[Quick1]

So how come we don't have any diesel subs? Not an entire fleet of them, but one would think that having 10 or so of them around would be nice.

[El Gato]

Perkins said a diesel sub works in shallower waters and needs to poke its periscope above the ocean surface to replenish its air supply and recharge its batteries.

Geez, you'd think a Lt. Cmdr. in the VP community would know the difference between a periscope and a snorkel.

Or that a "professional"reporter could get his quotes right. :)

[El Gato]

Cleary said the nine-member Orion sub hunter crews have four means of finding subs: ... » Sensitive radars that can detect the motion of a sub underwater, as well as other radar systems that seek out the electronic frequencies emitted by the radars of other ships.

Radar that can see underwater? Or radar that can see the periscope or snorkel when they are up.

[GoDuke]

Man I sure did love that plane. (AT-3, VP-46, 92-94)

[Lancer_N3502A]

We should reopen Midway Atoll as an ASW platform.

[ko_kyi]

Obviously there are lots of Navy folks on FR so this seems a good place to ask a few questions.

1. How expensive is a sonobuoy?

2. When they are dropped during exercises are they picked up and used again? What about during wartime?

3. Do they have any signal processing onboard or do they simply relay signals?

[blam]

The Kockums Stirling AIP System

[EricT.]

B57 nuclear weapon (5-20kt yield).

We used to have these to use if we could figure out the general area an enemy sub was lurking. No pin-pointing required.

[Little Ray]

I'm still wondering why we haven't bought our own Kilos with AIP (or other advanced non-nuclear subs) for training.