Gday,
I'm looking for info - mostly operational if possible - on the Sound Surveillence System.
You would be surprised how little there is on the net.
Sorry to people that came on looking for some new conspiracy. The SOSUS system is just a lot of passive underwater hydrophones that listen for whales
and earthquakes and such - and used to, during the Cold War, detect the Ruskie subs.
I know a fair amount of people on this site have a history with the services, so surely someone was involved in the program?
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well, The only remarkable thing I know of about that, is the sound Bloop. You should look into it. It's really neat
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Try looking up these:
Fixed Distributed System (FDS)
Advanced Deployable System (ADS)
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They are used to monitor nuke testing around the planet...
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Used mainly to track most of the comings and goings of vessels, military or not, through certain check points. like the straights of gibralter,
greenland etc. Very sensative and can chart sounds and detect them several thousands of miles away.
The US navy is developing Unmaned underwater vehicles. Little remotely operated submarines that are possibly a new version of sosus, where they can
patrol silently like a hunter killer sub, Act as a roving Sosus system, and can act like a more dangerous captor mine type of concept all in one.
thats the future of sosus. movable unmaned subs acting like roving hydrophone arrays with torpedos.
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Been around since the 60's. That how they located the lost Scorpian sub if I recall in late 68 or 69.
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My step-father was a program director who worked in honolulu, guam and kingsbay england. He doesn't talk about his involvement much and I know
little about the project. But from what I understand, it was a cold-war era system used to monitor Soviet submarine activity. It was known as the
"Red Line" ( as my father called it) and if a soviet typhoon (which was known for being very loud) was detected crossing it. The command structure
would be alerted. Then appropriate countermeasures would be initiated. Usually closer scrutiny and trailing by one of our own boomer subs like the
los angeles 688(i) or the ohio.
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reply to post by b.vandiver
Boomers are missile subs. They'd never trail a Russian sub. Don't think I'm calling you a liar or something just correcting the information. A
Boomer goes out from port, and spends all its time at sea hiding. They head out to a box at sea, and become a hole in the water. The Ohio is still
one of the quietest subs in the world. To my knowledge there has NEVER been one successfully tracked for longer than a few minutes, and that one had
some kind of mechanical issue causing a vibration that made it a little noisier.
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