During the Cold War, the U.S. Navy laid fixed networks of underwater hydrophones on the ocean floor called the “Sound Surveillance System” (SOSUS) to detect Soviet submarines transiting from their ...

At the end of World War II, just as relations between the US and the Soviet Union were beginning to freeze, America found itself dangerously vulnerable to Soviet ballistic missile submarine attack. To ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Titan submersible in water.OceanGate A Navy system detected what is believed to have been the implosion of the Titan ...

The China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) has proposed the construction of a network of ship and subsurface sensors that could significantly erode the undersea warfare advantage held by US and ...

In the 1950s, after having endured relentless attacks by German U-boats during World War II, the U.S. Navy devoted considerable resources to detecting and tracking submarines at long range. Chief in ...

The Cold War introduced the world to the concept of mutually assured destruction. This was an arms race that saw sides on both sides of the Iron Curtain scrabble to gain an edge. One area where this ...

SOSUS was accurate enough to locate a submarine within a circle no wider than 100 kilometers. That's a large area, but depending on the quality of the contact, the circle might be reduced up to ten ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. A somewhat secret US Navy system built to detect enemy submarine activity picked up sounds suspected ...

A somewhat secret US Navy system built to detect enemy submarine activity picked up sounds suspected to have been the catastrophic end of the Titan submersible lost touring the Titanic days before the ...

A Navy system detected what is believed to have been the implosion of the Titan submersible lost touring the Titanic. That system, a naval expert said, is likely the undersea hydrophones of the ...