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Old 10-08-06, 11:53 AM   #8
SeaQueen
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Originally Posted by Henson
I prefer to tell you up front: I don't know. Sonar is not my thing, and sound transmission is not my area of expertise or interest. What I am interested in is relative motion and the tactical application of all of the science behind sonar (ie what is my torpedo going to acquire and why).
I think it's all fascinating. It's like... ASW is a science of reasoning in the face of uncertainty. It's slow... it's intellectual... it's mathematically intensive...

I wish I could have been involved in things during the Cold War. Some of the old analysts at work have some great stories. It seems like there's nothing so grand going on in the ocean these days, not like it was.
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