Crazy Ivan???
 

Hi i would like to know in what this is about, and if it can be uses in DW.

Crazy Ivan is a sharp turn to see if there is someone in the sonar baffle.Of course you dont need to performe this manoeuvre if you have towed array.
But if sub doesnt have towed array(for example KILO),it is good idea to do Crazy Ivan regularly.

My question is... Do they really call it Crazy Ivan or was it just in the movie "Hunt for the Red October"?

it was also in the movie - Akula2 ))))
by the way - vernite sushku obratno! :)))

Thats what confused me in Red October, a sub with that kind of technology didint have towed sonar array?

Smeely ruskie kapitan!

??? :huh:

A foreign languages prof. recently told me 'smeely' means 'brave,' but damn it sounds funny in English!

pizdec!

Towed array existed when red october was produced.
But this information wasn't a public information.
Resulting in using an obsolete manoeuver on this kind of ships.

a crazy ivan :

slow down to a stop wait fo a min or two then speed up to say 24 knots sharply turn left or right doesnt matter which then procead to travel back to where you came from

obviously this is far obsolete but hey its fun

it isnt advisable for the masts and towed array to be extended while monover being done

@ diving wind Love your sig! :rotfl:

Thanks! :D

looks just like my AK47

Well, any AK-47 tends to look like an AK-47 ;)