Submarine Towed Array Questions
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 4:49 am
Folks,
I fear I am about to show my lack of Submarine knowledge here, I was thinking whilst trying to create a script for submarines about this.
Many submarines have towed sonar arrays that are used to passively recievce sounds in the water. I also understand that there are layers which effectively acts as a wall to sound at different depths and submarines dip above/below the layer to check for contacts. That got me thinking , would it be possible for a submarine to "trail" its array under the layer , whilst remaining above it? I presume the layer will have different thicknesses dependent on a number of variables , temp, salinity ect.
I will appreciate if this is something that can not be discussed in a public forum as well.
Kind Regards
Butch
I fear I am about to show my lack of Submarine knowledge here, I was thinking whilst trying to create a script for submarines about this.
Many submarines have towed sonar arrays that are used to passively recievce sounds in the water. I also understand that there are layers which effectively acts as a wall to sound at different depths and submarines dip above/below the layer to check for contacts. That got me thinking , would it be possible for a submarine to "trail" its array under the layer , whilst remaining above it? I presume the layer will have different thicknesses dependent on a number of variables , temp, salinity ect.
I will appreciate if this is something that can not be discussed in a public forum as well.
Kind Regards
Butch