To: GonzoGOP
Most people think that diesel boats are easy targets, they are not. Actually they are pretty damn invisible to passive sonar when on batteries. Pinging them might cause unwanted hydrophone effects on the reverse bearing.
15 posted on
12/28/2011 10:08:21 AM PST by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
Actually they are pretty damn invisible to passive sonar when on batteries.
Just to make things more fun the Indians operate Kilo's in the same area. Kinda hard to tell them apart unless you get a real good track. And like you said on something as quiet as a Kilo on batteries that isn't going to be easy.
The good news is that the Iranian Kilos spend a lot of time laid up for repairs. So their ability to take to sea on short notice is unknown. And their crews certainly haven't spent much time at sea. But I hate to count on my enemies stupidity as a strategy. The enemy tends to wise up at the least convenient moments.
24 posted on
12/28/2011 10:21:47 AM PST by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: central_va
It’s not the reverse bearings that I am concerned about, it’s the forward ones and the ones at nautical 90 degrees that worry me. : )
104 posted on
12/29/2011 5:58:46 AM PST by
fabian
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