January 19, 2011: South Korea recently announced that it will place underwater submarine sensors off its coasts. Details were not revealed, but this sort of thing is similar to the system of passive ...

The sea of tomorrow might be about as difficult to traverse stealthily as an elephant stomping through a room full of mousetraps thanks to Anduril's Seabed Sentry undersea sensor network that uses AI ...

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 ...

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 ...

October 3, 2019: The Chinese have completed the first of three 5,000 ton Type 927 acoustic surveillance ships. These twin-hull ships are designed to deploy an underwater SURTASS (Surveillance Towed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, the Sound Surveillance System, was America’s silent guardian during the Cold War. Deployed from the 1950s onward, it placed underwater microphones across the Atlantic and later the Pacific.

On April 10, 1963, the American nuclear submarine USS Thresher (SSN 593), the world’s most advanced hunter-killer submarine crushed at a depth of 2,400 feet killing all 129 onboard during a routine ...