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In the Navy!
On Oct 29, 11:31*pm, "Charles Momsen" wrote:
The VDS was very effective. It could be dropped beneath the thermocline and operated in a much quieter environment than any hull mounted unit. Oh, I didn't say the VDS (which stands for Variable Depth Sonar, a big fancy underwater microphone that could be lowered into the ocean on a special cable) wasn't effective. I just don't think it's more than a very tiny itsy-bitsy part of why the Soviet Union collapsed. Great story though... still being talked about when I was in... thanks for the link! I left the ship 2 weeks before it happened. There was another incident about a month before that involving 2 Osa missile boats but no one got hurt. An incident on the ship I was on.... which was prbably not talked about much outside that one ship.... the sonar gang had lowered the Toad Array to about 600' while tracking a sub. Unbeknownst to the conning officer, who drove the ship into water of about 450' depth... and the taxpayers said "OUCH!" DSK |
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