My Dad was a OTM (Oceanographic Technicians Mate) in the US Navy the rate that worked on and fixed the computers in the processing center. We were there in the 80s. I can say yes SOSUS is actually used by NOHA now and they use it for exactly what you said. The reason, satellites we have are actually far better than SOSUS was in terms of detection capability. Not to say SOSUS is not still in the US Navy inventory, because it is. Think of it as a tertiary redundancy, its always good to have back ups.
The sub lost in 1963 was Thresher which had never been deployed to Spain. The sub Scorpion, however, left Rota, Spain in 1968 and was lost on its way to home port in Norfolk, VA.
My Dad was a OTM (Oceanographic Technicians Mate) in the US Navy the rate that worked on and fixed the computers in the processing center. We were there in the 80s. I can say yes SOSUS is actually used by NOHA now and they use it for exactly what you said. The reason, satellites we have are actually far better than SOSUS was in terms of detection capability. Not to say SOSUS is not still in the US Navy inventory, because it is. Think of it as a tertiary redundancy, its always good to have back ups.
The sub lost in 1963 was Thresher which had never been deployed to Spain. The sub Scorpion, however, left Rota, Spain in 1968 and was lost on its way to home port in Norfolk, VA.
We used to go drag racing on the decommissioned runways in the 1970's.
Good video
I found a us sub near that area on google earth yesterday
Coordinates??
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