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Sub collides with sonar array towed by U.S. Navy ship (Chinese sub hits USS John McCain)
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| 6/12/2009
| Barbara Starr
Posted on 06/12/2009 5:24:36 PM PDT by james500
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To: james500
That's one way to find the sub.
Ping...ping...ping...BANG!!! "Contact, directly behind us, Captain!!"
To: Earthdweller
What do they do to the military in China when they mess up real bad anyway?
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To: ColdWater
Can a “tail” go active? I honestly don’t remember. I thought the active pulses came from the ship-mounted sonar, but I could be wrong on that. I was never really a sonar guy except for one small project.
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posted on
06/12/2009 8:55:56 PM PDT
by
CodeMasterPhilzar
(I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom. You can keep the "change.")
To: CodeMasterPhilzar
Radar is electromagnetic - UHF and above. Actually, radar works well into the MF range, depending on the size of the target, but you are correct that SONAR is not RADAR.
/johnny
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posted on
06/12/2009 8:58:21 PM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: OBXWanderer
If they name anything after Sedona John it will be a crashed airplane, the only thing he does well.
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posted on
06/12/2009 9:03:03 PM PDT
by
dalereed
To: Kirkwood
The funny thing is that when they hit, the noise went WANNNGGGG!!! and 12 guys in the sub asked Did someone call me?That's just wong.
To: Disambiguator
wong way wang, wasn’t he a fighter pilot that had to ditch?
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posted on
06/12/2009 9:10:06 PM PDT
by
Sundog
(The government is spending two dollars for every one taken in. Why isn't that illegal?)
To: CodeMasterPhilzar
Can a tail go active? I honestly dont remember. I thought the active pulses came from the ship-mounted sonar, but I could be wrong on that. I was never really a sonar guy except for one small project. An active/passive array consists of two parts. One active trailing down below the ship and the tail trailing out behind several hundred yards. The idea is to get the active transponders down under the surface layer for better detection.
To: SunkenCiv
That was the funniest post yet. A chicom fire drill.
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posted on
06/12/2009 9:21:44 PM PDT
by
ESABATM
To: james500
“Cap’n! Sir, we got a nibble!!”
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posted on
06/12/2009 9:39:49 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: james500
Chinese on sub: “I think we’re on to something here. Oh wait, I think we are being towed!”
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posted on
06/12/2009 9:48:39 PM PDT
by
taxesareforever
(Quick justice for the senseless killing of Marine Lance Cpl. Robert Crutchfield.)
To: CaptRon
Mongolian BBQ, that is. Tasty!
To: CodeMasterPhilzar
RADAR and SONAR are just acronyms for electromagnetic waves generated in different mediums, namely above or below surface. Maybe the reporter interviewed a snipe. Towed arrays can be used, as already mentioned,in either passive or active mode. My take is that the active mode (ECCM) worked too well for the Chicom boat driver/sonar man/ and the officer in the conning tower.Just gotta miss the professionalism of the old Soviet fleet. They would have responded by getting a Sovremenny to light you up with a two bin SS-N-22.
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posted on
06/12/2009 10:40:26 PM PDT
by
plea5th
To: james500
Next month at the bar.
Drunk civi " SO I ent out and caught a 1,000 pound swordfish."
Captain, "That's nothing. I hooked a 2,000 Ton fish, but had to throw it back."
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posted on
06/13/2009 12:55:25 AM PDT
by
rmlew
( The SAVE and GIVE acts are institutioning Corvee. Where's the outtrage!)
To: james500
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posted on
06/13/2009 1:10:03 AM PDT
by
right way right
(Do not mistake Religion for God.)
To: james500
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posted on
06/13/2009 3:32:52 AM PDT
by
SkyPilot
To: Malsua
I suspect they dragged the array across the sub. Not good for the Chinese that we could actually hit them with a towed array. It wasn’t an accident that the array was being towed in proximity close enough to hit the sub.
It probably means the sub was noisy enough that we clearly knew they were there.
The odds that you would hit a sub with a towed array by accident are astronomical.
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posted on
06/13/2009 4:30:02 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
To: American in Israel
I think you have it backwards. It is not that the acoustics of the sub are good, it is likely they are bad.
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posted on
06/13/2009 4:31:20 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
To: BP2
The Chinese economy would fall apart without exports to the U.S.
To: hoosier hick
Didn’t the Soviets hook an array back in the 1980s? I remember something about it getting caught on the conning tower, they tried to run, but then it fouled the Soviet props and they had to (fortunately) cut it loose.
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posted on
06/13/2009 5:58:45 AM PDT
by
sig226
(Real power is not the ability to destroy an enemy. It is the willingness to do it.)
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