tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972180575010200279.post8019886028996186608..comments2024-03-24T01:51:21.859-07:00Comments on Engaging Strategy: Trident, Vanguard and Successor: A Guide to the British Deterrent BritishGrenadierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09141624704388898556noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972180575010200279.post-13577633909585750002022-02-21T02:01:55.730-08:002022-02-21T02:01:55.730-08:00Really I enjoy your site with effective and useful...Really I enjoy your site with effective and useful information. It is included very nice post with a lot of our resources.thanks for share. i enjoy this post. <a href="https://www.tridentyachtcharters.com/" rel="nofollow">trident yacht charters</a>Sidra Nazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14627475920310886429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972180575010200279.post-35295106650265838692016-06-05T11:10:41.049-07:002016-06-05T11:10:41.049-07:00"But the fixed SOSUS hydrophones did succeed ..."But the fixed SOSUS hydrophones did succeed in detecting Soviet submarines so they were tracked with something like 100% accuracy. What makes you think that won't happen then underwater drones are widespread with Successor."<br /><br />Not true, SOSUS struggled to locate the later generations of Soviet submarines when novel tactics were used to sneak boats past the arrays. Like using older, noisier, submarines as decoys to mask the movement of newer quieter ones. I don't doubt that autonomous sensors will pose submarines new challenges, but I don't believe that they're a game changer or herald "the end of the submarine".<br /><br />"The problem is that a five-hundred-foot long, sixteen thousand ton block of metal with a nuclear reactor inevitably has a signature - acoustic, magnetic, electric and turbulent - and with a high enough density of sensors it will be detected. We're not just talking about a few thousand underwater sensors, but an evolution of the sort we have seen with smartphone and drones."<br /><br />At this point nobody knows what the future of unmanned ASW technology will take. We may see unmanned mini-frigates with towed arrays (currently being worked on by DARPA) or many semi - autonomous sonoboay-like drones. We don't really know. The idea of swarms of networked UUVs has a number of serious drawbacks. Notably, cost and reliability. The more nodes you have in a system the more likely each individual node is to fail. Again, I just don't see serious work being done on a system that could "make the seas transparent". Maybe in the future, who knows. At this time though, it's still largely science fiction.BritishGrenadierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09141624704388898556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972180575010200279.post-9813075429683977032016-06-05T05:19:19.840-07:002016-06-05T05:19:19.840-07:00"They argue that the Successor class would be..."They argue that the Successor class would be hopelessly vulnerable to such systems, as it would lose its ability to hide. These commentators forget that these technologies are far from new, during the Cold War NATO erected vast arrays of fixed hydrophones to detect Soviet submarines in the North Atlantic, and certainly not foolproof."<br /><br />But the fixed SOSUS hydrophones did succeed in detecting Soviet submarines so they were tracked with something like 100% accuracy. What makes you think that won't happen then underwater drones are widespread with Successor.<br /><br />"With every generation submarine detection equipment has become more sensitive, yet the boats continue to get quieter in response. Each measure developed to detect the submarine is met with a countermeasure in response."<br /><br />The problem is that a five-hundred-foot long, sixteen thousand ton block of metal with a nuclear reactor inevitably has a signature - acoustic, magnetic, electric and turbulent - and with a high enough density of sensors it will be detected. We're not just talking about a few thousand underwater sensors, but an evolution of the sort we have seen with smartphone and drones.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04280598967123266364noreply@blogger.com