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Originally Posted by Doc Savage
I was wondering. There is so much literature available on the Net (and on this forum) about American and Russian sonar and their relative capabilities. But there doesn't seem to be much info about the French and British sonar systems. Even the Japanese, German, Chinese etc. stuff.
How do their sonar systems stack up as compared to the Russian and American stuff? Do any of them have high sensitivity sonars or is it pretty much No.1 USA, No. 2 Russia and everybody else far behind?
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To return to the topic.
English have good sensors, french a just little beyond (just because french sub arev ery small compare to other), but the sonar are not all, if the submarine is noisy you can have the better sonar system, you are disavantged, the cew ability is also to account.
I will speak only for French nuclear attack submarine they are compact (better against active sonar) and a little bit noisy (all the machinery are not well isolated from the hull) but they can change speed in a very short time and have a very high turn rate. The sonar specialists are very well trained.
So a comparison between sonar is not very easy, you should consider the whole : the sonar, the sub, the crew, ... and the capitain.