My father was a sonarman in the Navy during the 70's. Before he got out he told me they declassified a shitload of data they collected from the positions of whales and gave it to some marine biology department of a university somewhere. They were like, "It's probably all unusable shit, but we'll look at it." Turns out it was the most detailed and sophisticated tracking data they had ever seen. Even more so than the state of the art radio trackers they were using. Turns out the Navy knows a lot about where things are in the water.
I had to do a bit of research since it's been a long time since I thought about it, and wanted to look it up. It was called SOSUS and they gave the whale data to NOAA.
SOSUS is a line of underwater microphones, range would be a simple matter of triangulation. They had ~1 mile accuracy in the 1970s, and they probably are much better now.
So, uh... I guess it's OK to expose those capabilities now?
My father was a sonarman in the Navy during the 70's. Before he got out he told me they declassified a shitload of data they collected from the positions of whales and gave it to some marine biology department of a university somewhere. They were like, "It's probably all unusable shit, but we'll look at it." Turns out it was the most detailed and sophisticated tracking data they had ever seen. Even more so than the state of the art radio trackers they were using. Turns out the Navy knows a lot about where things are in the water.
I had to do a bit of research since it's been a long time since I thought about it, and wanted to look it up. It was called SOSUS and they gave the whale data to NOAA.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2021/february/66-years-undersea-surveillance
Marked Trans Secret: For xer eyes only
Isn't that the title of the next bond film?
SOSUS is a line of underwater microphones, range would be a simple matter of triangulation. They had ~1 mile accuracy in the 1970s, and they probably are much better now.
Lol if they can't tell the distance to the boom, then it's not top secret technology