Have a number of question I'm curious about. Would greatly appreciate any assistance from other members.
1. For surface combatants that are not operating together with MCMs, what is the main means of avoiding or detecting moored or bottom laid mines? Would I be correct in assuming that 'obstacle avoiding sonars' that some surface combatants are equipped with, would be able to detect mines?
2. Would a sub's hull mounted or flank array sonars be useful in detecting mines? When discussing sub operations in littoral waters, we tend to put more emphasis on threats posed by other subs, surface ASW units and ASW aircraft and often forget that mines also pose a great danger.
3. Does anyone know of any surface combatants currently in service that are fitted with only a towed array and have no hull mounted sonar?
4. Apart from being able to go below the thermal layer, to listen aft of the baffles and other advantages; would I be correct in saying that an advantage offered by a towed array is the ability to pick up contacts at longer ranges, when compared to a hull mounted sonar?
5. Do current genertaion towed arrays generate enough noise, when being reeled in our out, that can be picked up by sonars from ships, subs and aircraft?
Thank you.
1. For surface combatants that are not operating together with MCMs, what is the main means of avoiding or detecting moored or bottom laid mines? Would I be correct in assuming that 'obstacle avoiding sonars' that some surface combatants are equipped with, would be able to detect mines?
2. Would a sub's hull mounted or flank array sonars be useful in detecting mines? When discussing sub operations in littoral waters, we tend to put more emphasis on threats posed by other subs, surface ASW units and ASW aircraft and often forget that mines also pose a great danger.
3. Does anyone know of any surface combatants currently in service that are fitted with only a towed array and have no hull mounted sonar?
4. Apart from being able to go below the thermal layer, to listen aft of the baffles and other advantages; would I be correct in saying that an advantage offered by a towed array is the ability to pick up contacts at longer ranges, when compared to a hull mounted sonar?
5. Do current genertaion towed arrays generate enough noise, when being reeled in our out, that can be picked up by sonars from ships, subs and aircraft?
Thank you.
