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Armond Perretta
 
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Default Vessel detectors

Vito wrote:
Armond Perretta wrote:

In any case a small sonar seems like a good possibility ...


Sound waves bend downward creating a blind zone near the surface.


Quite, but the sound waves generated by the target vessel do themselves
propagate in a uniform direction from the source, so they _will_ be picked
up.

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