January 19, 2011: South Korea recently announced that it will place underwater submarine sensors off its coasts. Details were not revealed, but this sort of thing is similar to the system of passive ...
October 3, 2019: The Chinese have completed the first of three 5,000 ton Type 927 acoustic surveillance ships. These twin-hull ships are designed to deploy an underwater SURTASS (Surveillance Towed ...
The China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) has proposed the construction of a network of ship and subsurface sensors that could significantly erode the undersea warfare advantage held by US and ...
A Navy system detected what is believed to have been the implosion of the Titan submersible lost touring the Titanic. That system, a naval expert said, is likely the undersea hydrophones of the ...
During the Cold War, the U.S. Navy laid fixed networks of underwater hydrophones on the ocean floor called the “Sound Surveillance System” (SOSUS) to detect Soviet submarines transiting from their ...
The Navy, facing increasingly tight budgets, is shutting down most of a $16 billion system that spied on enemy ships and submarines for decades by monitoring their undersea sounds. But scientists are ...
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SOSUS: America’s Hidden Ear Beneath the Sea
SOSUS, the Sound Surveillance System, was America’s silent guardian during the Cold War. Deployed from the 1950s onward, it placed underwater microphones across the Atlantic and later the Pacific.
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