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Originally Posted by Pillar
lol! That's very interesting. And SOSUS was then between Newfoundland and the Azores? (Not GIUK?)
I'll pick that up, thanks!
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Yes it was a couple of years until the listening post in Keflavik was built. But thats not to say that other assests didn't patrol the GIUK gap. IIRC in Oct Fury P-3s and UK Shackeltons are detected by the Soviet subs while they are transiting the Gap.
http://www.cus.navy.mil/timeline.htm