In the modern day, USS AMERICA (CV-66) was built with an SQS-23 sonar, the only CV to be so equipped that I know of. Other than her aircraft, she had no ASW weapons to go with it.
In the Med which can have some very shallow layer depths, she on occasion could out range her escorts in detections because her sonar was mounted so much deeper, 39ft, than theirs and so in a shallow layer condition her sonar could get underneath where the tin cans' couldn't.
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Cordially,
Neil
CAPT USN (Ret.)
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