Recommended reads for DW and LwAmi mod

[Amizaur]

My links:

Submarine and ASW warfare

The Third Battle: Innovation in the U.S. Navy's Silent Cold War Struggle with Soviet Submarines - very, very recommended article about ASW in and past the cold war

Sonar and underwater acoustics:

Understanding Oceanography - fantastic page about underwater sound propagation ! very recommended !!

FAS.org - Introduction to Naval Weapons Engineering
(Underwater Acoustics, Environment, SONAR Performance I, SONAR Performance II, SONAR Systems, Underwater Weapons)

Fundamentals of Naval Weapons Systems

Sonar model and detection ranges:

Harpoon 3 sonar model

What is Known About the Character of Noise Created by Submarines?

Estimates of Submarine Detection Ranges - a bit advanced

Submarine Collision off Murmansk: A Look from Afar (optional)

Miasnikov - The Fundamental Limits of Passive Acoustics.pdf - advanced

Weapons, sensors:

Modern Torpedoes And Countermeasures

Homing instincts

Torpedos and the Next Generation Undersea Weapons

Naval Weapons of the World From 1880 to Today

Torpedoes and Mines of the Dutch Submarine Service

Russian Torpedo Armament

Russian Torpedoes for Export

The UGST versatile torpedo

Russian Torpedoes - a PDF advertisement

Russian Antisubmarine Rockets - PDF about APR family of ASW torpedos

Klub - SS-N-27 - Club-S

Submarines

Great page about russian subs - in russian... but very interesting even with use of babelfish translation to english (http://babelfish.altavista.com/). Sub monografies on right panel. Also very nice galleries of russian subs if you can find them

www.ckb-rubin.ru - Kilos

Various technical/historical:

The Naval Technical Board

Post-World War II Acoustic ASW Torpedo Development A brief history of the MK-35, MK-41, MK-43 and MK-44

US NAVY TORPEDOES by Frederick J Milford

(Part Four: WW II development of homing torpedoes 1940-1946)
(Part Five: Post WW-II Submarine Launched/ Heavyweight Torpedoes)

U.S. Navy's First Active Acoustic Homing Torpedoes by Tom Pelick

Submarine Warfare in the 20th & 21st Centuries : A Bibliography - very large collection, in books/history/special topics and books/submarines sections you can find many interesting books and papers with online acces, for one example: Soto, Alberto A. The Flaming Datum problem with varying speed.... or Adams, Brian S.. Analysis of the Effects of Energy Spreading Loss and Transmission Loss on Low Frequency Active Sonar Operations in Shallow Water or The relationship between a submarine's maximum speed and its evasive capability :-) ...... and, fantastic find, seems to be a little extended version of "The Third Battle", relased in PDF, I found here paragraphs that not exist in WWW version.

Utils

Radar - some info about RCS and Radar Horizon Calculator

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LoBlo's links

I've always use FAS as a good source of informaiton for american ship stats. http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/index.html

And there are a few articles on the Harpoon3 site that are interesting reads as well http://www.harpoonhq.com/waypoint/ - very nice link , try for example "In Peril On the Sea: The ASCM threat and countermeasures"

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to be continued...

P.S. Some articles I had are not online anymore, or I can't find them with Google, so I put them on my personal page for you, some were saved without pictures that's why they are lacking pictures now.

Please reply once in this thread and put YOUR interesting links if you have any !