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Originally Posted by OUR72GTO
ambient noise?? It that what you get when there is no ABL?  |
That is almost signature worthy.
Yeah being an ex-squid I can definitely back up gtahvit's statements about how silent they run.
Maybe this can put it in perspective. Before every deployment surface ships have to "qualify" that they are sea-worthy and battle-ready by running some wargames in the Caribbean (for the east coast fleet). One of these trials usually involves attempting to find a sub from a surface ship. It's so pathetic that the sub can ping us (being funny) and we still can't find them. The only way we ever did find them is when their periscope would pop up and we'd track them with our very sophisticated radar.
So two of them running that quietly and it's very easy to imagine this happening eventually.