This is one of the best samples of real active sonar anywhere on RUclips. Deep sea sounds of any kind are so spooky! Military sonar is just ultra powerful and Cold War sonar tones (especially Soviet ones) are straight up terrifying.
Hearing these sorts of sounds at sea when serving aboard a warship used to send shivers down my spine. We would usually hear ourselves being pinged at night as well. Its really distinctive as you can tell. The one that was most common was obviously a different type of sonar to this as it was a very similar but slightly different noise, but maybe that was us hearing it through the hull etc. The pitch of the squeak at the end would always ramp up to almost shrill and was horrible!!!
Sounds like an AN/SQS-53 running a CWFM pulse (Continuous Wave Frequency Modulation) in the first 5 minutes. That first loud ping is a return from a contact, the same from the second loud ping so I'm assuming the target is close in deep but not very deep water. If you listen with good enough headphones (and seen on the graph) you can actually hear the props and power plant of the ship. I'm unsure what the next 5 minutes are as I've not heard a sonar "chirp" but it does pick up a return "chirp" with another CWFM sonar source in there somewhere out there. So, two ships running sonar and it sounds like there could be a duct since the sonar pulse at 7:25 carries for another 20-25 seconds. You can hear the contact be picked up and returned to the second source. Could be an ASW exercise.
@@Coralita675 I have a public playlist on my channel of all of the real sonar samples I've found on RUclips. Feel free to check it out. It's bloody difficult to find good samples.
Sounds like an American sub and surface ships in extremely deep water conducting a search and finding something. I would estimate 23,000 feet to the bottom measuring the bounce return time on the chart. A big contact I think at 20,000 feet distance. Unless its a friendly in an exercise I would say they found a target sub. At 6:34 sounds how a helicopter circling far in the distance on the surface would sounds like from a submerged sub. Probably a destroyer air search chopper dropping sonar buoys. Or I just have a great imagination.
@palerider957 thx. my knowlegde stems from games only anyways (like Silent Hunter(wwii)), probably another one of my drunk comments - theses are haunting me, even from years ago.
##excellent evaluation curious. what formula used to calculate distance of found object under water factoring water resistance and sonar speed? thank you
@@codyking4848 I did say surface ship doing exercises but the heli sound and the return distance, something more here. When more than one warship is around it can get confusing.
Def an SQS-53. It's running a CWFM and then chirps, but I don't know what that is called. I think this is an ASW exercise since I hear two sonar sources and at least 3 different types of propeller movement.
@@gamersunite7968 the chirps would be HFM(High-Frequency Modulated) or LFM(Low-Frequency Modulated) modes of operation. There is a decent article about an institute in Poland making modifications to the SQS-56, and they list out a lot of the common modes of operation of American sonar systems, albeit, it’s hard for us to ever get a recording of an SQS-56 since most confirmed and most renowned is the CW-FM sweep of the Arleigh Burkes SQS-53(A through C). One I’d love to hear would be the SQS-56 since they do operate at a lot higher frequency from what I read so the sweeps might be a bit different. Alternatively the SQS-61 array of the Zumwalt-class but I don’t think we would hear that any time soon. PS: feels weird coming back to a comment from myself from a year back 🤣 why do I like to listen to sonar pulses, I don’t know.
@@m_swizzy22 good to know. I had a feeling it may have been some form of HF sonar but I’ve never actually heard it. I’m guessing it’s for obstacle/close range detection? And yeah, it’s definitely weird. I’ve done it a few times myself, lmao. I’ve been studying more sonar myself and I’m really stoked for modern naval warfare game that’s coming out.
@@gamersunite7968 I wouldn’t be an expert but I’d say the HFM and LFM modes would be used for navigation in shallow water/polar regions(for submerged icebergs and such) I’m more of an aviation guy, but I do spend a fair bit of time in Cold Waters and also looking forward to the new naval game. Hopefully they will have the good SQS-53(maaaaybe SQS-26?!) sound set! I mainly spend my time flying the F-16 in DCS, because that’s where I see myself eventually as well.
I wonder why movies and shows use different sounds to represent sonar. These actual pings are so damn ominous and make so much more sense. Like dolphins and whales surely evolved to make the sounds they do for a reason, and these are quite similar. Could it be a military secret thing?
@@rocket2739 in the Hunger games, Katniss's disorientation on entering was represent by a high pitched noise. I'm not sure which scene it was but yeah the noise was important.
It's not a "secret". Not all sonar modules make the same sounds. There is actually a wide variety of different sounds these devices can make. Some can even allow you to connect them to a microphone and talk through them if you want to (Jacques Piccard did something like that with the Trieste). It'll be quite a loud speech for sure. Now the sounds you hear often used in movies are based on early sonar devices from the 40s and 50s. They are not incorrect, just somewhat obsolete. These sounds are easy to get ahold of, since a lot of them are available as stock sounds.
I assume this pings belong Arleigh Burke class destroyer. Sonar pings: Frequency Modulation (loud initial ping) and Omni-Directional (last little "chirp")
WWII sonar uses less sophisticated sound distribution, because submarines were less sophisticated, later using more than one sound pitch became the better option because it can detect objects on a wider frequency range
get a dome, some transducers, and if you know what your doing connect it to a microphone and plant it in the ocean somewhere and then get a hydrophone and give us the sound.
Why are these sounds crackling and breaking up compared to other sonar recordings on YT? At first I thought the hydrophone was clipping, but you can hear the sounds are breaking up in the reflections too. I know it's probably classified or whatever, but any ideas?
Surface ship, i can hear the propulsion, maybe knoxx class, i am not sure. I was trained in finnish military to recognize the russian sonar's and propulsion. But this is the real sonar what it sound like not some crab made look a like sonar's
Rokkikukko 99, are you allowed to disclose the distance that sonar can detect a submarine ? I am curious about sub to sub detection via sonar. I've heard that active detection can occur up to 300 miles, but that seems far-fetched. Thank you for your consideration.
@@4321dud as long as sonar peep returns, it is complicated because different subs can "suck" the noice and envoriments, i cant say the range because it is classified information. But there is different frequentions that can travel futher or less
Rokkikukko 99: thank you, Sir, for your timely response. I appreciate it. With the information you have, and forgive my complete ignorance on the matter, may I inquire if sonar works on a more or less "line of sight" basis, and if it does, have you ever succumbed to speculation upon sonar's capability to defeat the curvature issue?
@@4321dud not everybody is sonar technician, but i was trained to listen and recognize targets. there is other guys trained to use active sonar, maybe in submarines they do both of things but in finnish navy we have different soldiers to use passive and active sonars. Hope you find out or maybe you should enlist and do it as a job 😉
No, you note bearing, range, and depth. Note where you are regards the layer, identify by type of sonar the type of ship sending it, and you move-off quickly but quietly, all the while figuring your firing-solution. You ready a decoy and check the status of your countermeasures. Become wary? Yes. Panic? NEVER
@@Ping_Jockey I'm sure someone named "ping jockey" would know more than me about this stuff XD So is it from two sources then? One using the 53 and another using the 26?
@@AverageAlien Hahaha it's just various types of bow sonars used by the US Navy. Each sonar has a distinctive sound, which means that a listener can classify whatever is using active sonar. I've heard the SQS-53 a couple times, which made me guess that this was that particular one.
Think those high 3-4.5 whistles are just specific high pulses. Used to look for something that the lower hz. Can't pick up?! Better for close range? Spotting a type of object? I dono. If I put up dumb answers someone will get pissed off and correct me so I hope I helped ...
@@samuelsammington3572 That's correct. Sonars switch to higher frequency sweeps to increase resolution. Some have an automatic setting where a steep ground incoming or shallow formation ahead can trigger the system to switch to a different freq depending on if it's a close ground feature or if it wants a more long range analysis if nothing interesting is near.
What is all the reverb I hear after each pulse? Assuming they're in open ocean, what would cause all of the muddy reverb? Does the sound reflect back to the detector from particulates in the water? Hoping someone with some actual knowledge on this can chime in!
Where was this taken? I know military aren’t supposed to use active sonar is often as it can kill humans and wildlife, though I assume it’s not as strict in open ocean
Only the British navy and French navy decided to stop using active sonar when any mammal is detected in an area. Americans and Russians and other nations don’t seem to care for now. Maybe that’ll change. They maybe changed the equipment since the 80s, for sure, but didn’t change the « tactic ».
This recording below has that exact same sound, in more detail and as a repeated pulse - probably the same type of vessel ruclips.net/video/8ROJ6U5RTRI/видео.html
None of it is censored afaik. The rapid bursts of alternating pings are for detecting things very close as it leaves a moment of brief quiet between each ping to show any echos if there are any. I’m not a sonarmen, so I’m likely very wrong.
Sonar is generally speaking very loud, so it's possible that in some areas it might actually be clipping on the receiver, so the sound is going higher up than the receiver can actually work to etc, not outside the realm of possibility
Depends on the conditions like water depth, range or the type of target. Short distance: short pulse or fast stepped/ramped pulses, also low volume. For longer distances you need more volume and can use longer pulses that are easier to detect and so on. The louder the pulse, the louder the reverb that's coming back from the surface or bottom of the ocean, sometimes its necessary to use a quiet pulse to even detect a vessel because of all the noise. There's a lot to it, very interesting stuff.
@@simonbecker748 Different frequencies penetrate the water e t c differently, just like light does. So, not being an expert on sonar, I would guess they use a range to burn through water layers e t c.
@vojtakkojecky7765 i would guess from the vessel itself as you can hear return of the ping which is unlikely if you heard it from 200km away. also you hear propulsion noises so it confirms the theory of it being recorded on a ship and thus likely on the arleigh burke class that used the sonar
The sounds are made by what are effectively underwater speakers, called Transducers. These are violently loud sounds, if you've ever been by something so loud you could feel it, it's like that but instead of just feeling it it ruptures your eardrums and even your lungs if you were close enough. That's why if your ever diving and you hear that, diving is done for the day, going up to surface is a must.
@@Slothdeman Im sorry i cant be of that much help, but im guessing since it is very, very high quality audio of these pings, it is likely a submerged scientific hydrophone, maybe 30km offshore, so maybe 50km-100km away from the vessel emitting the pings. Just shows how loud these sounds are, if you can hear them from halfway across earth's oceans.
Ionized Virta That is crazy bro! I find sonar so interesting like! But also just one more question, the way it is picked up as a pinging sound on the microphone. Does it sound exactly like that to your ears or is it a slightly different tone ?
How do you listen to the underwater arrays? I found the website for VENUS but nothing on any sort of stream, only video feeds. Do you have to be a member of University of Victoria or something? I thought they said it was publicly available?
@r_ elentless01 As a retired submariner who sat sonar watch and stood below decks watch, I can tell you that we were trained to use active sonar to repel divers because it was deadly to humans. That being said, anytime we tested the active sonar for maintenance, we had to ensure that we didn't have any repair divers in the water anywhere on the pier, and when we did dead fish would float up around the boat. It's not the frequency, rather it's the power level used to create the pulse that does damage to hollow organ. No different than a bomb blast, same pressure wave physics.
Well, first you will need to build one of these: github.com/Supermagnum/piezoelectric Then you will need to be in the right place at the right time.. And be extremely lucky.
Just wondering though, if the sonar ping can kill a diver then how does it not affect the crew in the sub? Maybe a stupid question but would it not be super loud for them
@@mariaoconnor3740 Yes, crews in submarines can hear active sonar pulses pretty loudly when they're let off. The reason they're not affected is because they have a submarine's hull in between them and the sonar pulse, which is why they don't immediately start dying horribly when active sonar is used.
Anything solid. If it's steel or concrete, you get a super well defined return. If it's softer, like sand or wood, some of the pulse is absorbed and you get a lower return. Biological material, like plant life or marine animals, absorb a lot more.
@@forloop7713 Yep, it's noticeable with most of these returns. If you notice, you get the initial pulse, then it sounds like it's going down a long hallway. These are most likely reflections from the seafloor/other surfaces and reflections from the surface itself. You can even see some sort of a return at around 10 kHz at around 45 seconds on the graph. Edit: Also, at 1:07 you can hear and see the return from the first FM slide, and can hear the returns from most of the others.
@@doktork3406 Yes.. I know that.. I was referring to separately downloading original sound files/recordings used here plus possibly other recordings similar to this (public ones).
Okay, how much of that was some kind of tonal variance and how much of what I was hearing my earbuds telling me to go f--- myself for trying to make them make these tones? :D
none. submarines dont use active sonar under pretty much any cicumstance as it would give away their position. the only time a submarine would really use their active sonar is if they know they have been spotted and are in a standoff with another submarine that they need more information on where they are. as a desperate hope of getting the enemy before they get them
I plugged my earphone without wearing them (it's at 100 volume) my earphones is a little far away Not 1 meter it's on my feet I still can hear it even though it's on my feet (My house is very quiet) It sounds... So terrible! It means if I wear my earphones with 100% volume my ears would probably dead. It's a little loud. Compared to music it's not that loud when it's on my feet I hear it a little but this sound is kinda loud to hear it
Military sonar is significantly lower in frequency, also they very rarely go active like this, it’s much more likely some kind of nav beacon or someone doing a survey.
Actually this is Mid-Frequency active military sonar (“Mid-Frequency” is considered between 1 kHz and 10 kHz - within the human auditory band.) The US Navy carries mid-frequency sonar systems aboard its cruisers, destroyers, frigates, submarines, helicopters, and aircraft. The source could be from 53 series sonar, employed on Arleigh Burke or Spruance class destroyers or possibly a Ticonderoga class cruiser.
@@potato2941 yes. The sound bounces off any object large enough in the water. If you have an idea where it might be , and it’s within active range - which is pretty far - then an active sweep may well conform your suspicions.
this is the US AN/SQS 53 used on spruance class destroyers, arleigh burke class destroyers and Ticonderoga-class cruisers. so not wildlife not a sub and not norwegian. its most likely a US destroyer. and subs dont really use active sonar
This is one of the best samples of real active sonar anywhere on RUclips. Deep sea sounds of any kind are so spooky! Military sonar is just ultra powerful and Cold War sonar tones (especially Soviet ones) are straight up terrifying.
Yes, love the spoook factor
It's spooky cause no-one has any idea what they might find that we still haven't even known about
@@Dancchi or, one of these pings could have started WW3.
Spooky eh :)
Where can I hear soviet sonar ?
Awesome name btw
Hearing these sorts of sounds at sea when serving aboard a warship used to send shivers down my spine. We would usually hear ourselves being pinged at night as well. Its really distinctive as you can tell. The one that was most common was obviously a different type of sonar to this as it was a very similar but slightly different noise, but maybe that was us hearing it through the hull etc. The pitch of the squeak at the end would always ramp up to almost shrill and was horrible!!!
Mr. Williams please do answer
Im enlisted in the US Navy as an STG, after i get through bootcamp and start A school, if it's possible, I can answer this
Leech Little probably not, they don’t want other countries knowing the stats on their technology
@4321 Dud Spy
@@4321dud Nice try China
Sounds like an AN/SQS-53 running a CWFM pulse (Continuous Wave Frequency Modulation) in the first 5 minutes. That first loud ping is a return from a contact, the same from the second loud ping so I'm assuming the target is close in deep but not very deep water. If you listen with good enough headphones (and seen on the graph) you can actually hear the props and power plant of the ship.
I'm unsure what the next 5 minutes are as I've not heard a sonar "chirp" but it does pick up a return "chirp" with another CWFM sonar source in there somewhere out there. So, two ships running sonar and it sounds like there could be a duct since the sonar pulse at 7:25 carries for another 20-25 seconds. You can hear the contact be picked up and returned to the second source. Could be an ASW exercise.
Seems like American sonar is very easy to find recordings of, but its impossible to find anything with Soviet or Russian sonar..
@@theflyinggasmask Because we freely declass all of our tech, but Russian tech we know of is nearly always NOFORN minimum.
I find submarines both fascinating and terrifying. The sonar pings are nightmare fuel, but also cool to hear.
I agree. Probably because your me
Russian bow mounted Horse Jaw sonar should sound like a wolf howling or something.
Well, submarines are primarily a weapon after all. Same for high power sonars like the SQS 26
Submechanophobia gang
Sonar is not exclusive technology to submarine vessels…
This audio must been uploaded at really high quality format, I can literally hear the several pings traveling back and forth in the background
Fascinating and terrifying in equal measures!
more military sonar pings please, it just sounds so badass
I'll try post another in the next week or so.
One ping, Vasilij.
@@speardfrog1 MMM we are still waiting a year later!
@@Coralita675 I think his NBN is down 😉
@@Coralita675 I have a public playlist on my channel of all of the real sonar samples I've found on RUclips. Feel free to check it out. It's bloody difficult to find good samples.
Sounds like an American sub and surface ships in extremely deep water conducting a search and finding something. I would estimate 23,000 feet to the bottom measuring the bounce return time on the chart. A big contact I think at 20,000 feet distance. Unless its a friendly in an exercise I would say they found a target sub. At 6:34 sounds how a helicopter circling far in the distance on the surface would sounds like from a submerged sub. Probably a destroyer air search chopper dropping sonar buoys. Or I just have a great imagination.
sounds more like a blade.. 4 screws, maybe. big tanker ?
@palerider957 thx. my knowlegde stems from games only anyways (like Silent Hunter(wwii)), probably another one of my drunk comments - theses are haunting me, even from years ago.
##excellent evaluation
curious. what formula used to calculate distance of found object under water factoring water resistance and sonar speed?
thank you
Yeah,,,, you have a great imagination. This is an AN/SQS-53 from an Arleigh Burke class destroyer performing a maintenance sweep.
@@codyking4848 I did say surface ship doing exercises but the heli sound and the return distance, something more here. When more than one warship is around it can get confusing.
Sounds like the Navy is playing around with one or more of their sonar systems. Fun stuff!
Sounds like the SQS-53C, the middle section is very much like that, lots of reverb and a high frequency with plenty of step changes
Definitely what that is
Def an SQS-53. It's running a CWFM and then chirps, but I don't know what that is called. I think this is an ASW exercise since I hear two sonar sources and at least 3 different types of propeller movement.
@@gamersunite7968 the chirps would be HFM(High-Frequency Modulated) or LFM(Low-Frequency Modulated) modes of operation.
There is a decent article about an institute in Poland making modifications to the SQS-56, and they list out a lot of the common modes of operation of American sonar systems, albeit, it’s hard for us to ever get a recording of an SQS-56 since most confirmed and most renowned is the CW-FM sweep of the Arleigh Burkes SQS-53(A through C).
One I’d love to hear would be the SQS-56 since they do operate at a lot higher frequency from what I read so the sweeps might be a bit different. Alternatively the SQS-61 array of the Zumwalt-class but I don’t think we would hear that any time soon.
PS: feels weird coming back to a comment from myself from a year back 🤣 why do I like to listen to sonar pulses, I don’t know.
@@m_swizzy22 good to know. I had a feeling it may have been some form of HF sonar but I’ve never actually heard it. I’m guessing it’s for obstacle/close range detection?
And yeah, it’s definitely weird. I’ve done it a few times myself, lmao. I’ve been studying more sonar myself and I’m really stoked for modern naval warfare game that’s coming out.
@@gamersunite7968 I wouldn’t be an expert but I’d say the HFM and LFM modes would be used for navigation in shallow water/polar regions(for submerged icebergs and such)
I’m more of an aviation guy, but I do spend a fair bit of time in Cold Waters and also looking forward to the new naval game.
Hopefully they will have the good SQS-53(maaaaybe SQS-26?!) sound set!
I mainly spend my time flying the F-16 in DCS, because that’s where I see myself eventually as well.
I served for 20 years on Nuclear boats and I only heard us transmit sonar during training. The idea is to keep quiet and listen.
Yup, Yankee-search seldom, if ever, used. Be the hole in the ocean
It's used to lock on to targets.
I wonder why movies and shows use different sounds to represent sonar. These actual pings are so damn ominous and make so much more sense. Like dolphins and whales surely evolved to make the sounds they do for a reason, and these are quite similar. Could it be a military secret thing?
First, hearing loud high pitched noises would be a pain. second, a lot of people wouldn't even hear it (especially the eldest)
most of this still is incredibly classified and you know how companies don't want to put their wallets in danger
@@rocket2739 in the Hunger games, Katniss's disorientation on entering was represent by a high pitched noise. I'm not sure which scene it was but yeah the noise was important.
It's not a "secret". Not all sonar modules make the same sounds. There is actually a wide variety of different sounds these devices can make. Some can even allow you to connect them to a microphone and talk through them if you want to (Jacques Piccard did something like that with the Trieste). It'll be quite a loud speech for sure. Now the sounds you hear often used in movies are based on early sonar devices from the 40s and 50s. They are not incorrect, just somewhat obsolete. These sounds are easy to get ahold of, since a lot of them are available as stock sounds.
@xxfalconarasxx5659 Ahh, I see. That makes sense. Thank you!
Even though I'm hearing these in a vid, my brain kinda shakes a little
odd
Oh such a familiar sound. Remember sleeping in an outboard pit fwd and finding that noise @ 0:56 seconds so soothing
I assume this pings belong Arleigh Burke class destroyer.
Sonar pings: Frequency Modulation (loud initial ping) and Omni-Directional (last little "chirp")
@@zenith_linear sonar on the now decommissioned type 22 batch 3 frigates for me.
Now I wonder what WW2 sonar would sound like
Ww2 sonar is super basic, just a ping like you'd hear in a movie.
Close to this I would imagine ruclips.net/video/axc76QX__fY/видео.htmlm37s
WWII sonar uses less sophisticated sound distribution, because submarines were less sophisticated, later using more than one sound pitch became the better option because it can detect objects on a wider frequency range
Old WW2 sonar like ASDIC would pretty much sound how it does in Movies like Das Boot
Is that cavitation in bacground or some recording artifact? Wow. Never heard Active Pingingg patterns even close to these
There’s one tiny ping you can see at 21kHz. Few things can make a sound at that high frequency with the exception of my ex-wife.
I want to play guitar through an underwater speaker and have it echo off shit miles away.
Buy yourself an attack sub and rework the sonar system into the world's loudest guitar amp. Smoke under water.
get a dome, some transducers, and if you know what your doing connect it to a microphone and plant it in the ocean somewhere and then get a hydrophone and give us the sound.
Clicked and immediately my ears were shot because I had my speaker right next to me.
Why are these sounds crackling and breaking up compared to other sonar recordings on YT? At first I thought the hydrophone was clipping, but you can hear the sounds are breaking up in the reflections too. I know it's probably classified or whatever, but any ideas?
propulsion
When the sonar operator tries to make a remix with the sonar
Surface ship, i can hear the propulsion, maybe knoxx class, i am not sure. I was trained in finnish military to recognize the russian sonar's and propulsion. But this is the real sonar what it sound like not some crab made look a like sonar's
Rokkikukko 99, are you allowed to disclose the distance that sonar can detect a submarine ? I am curious about sub to sub detection via sonar. I've heard that active detection can occur up to 300 miles, but that seems far-fetched.
Thank you for your consideration.
@@4321dud as long as sonar peep returns, it is complicated because different subs can "suck" the noice and envoriments, i cant say the range because it is classified information. But there is different frequentions that can travel futher or less
Rokkikukko 99: thank you, Sir, for your timely response. I appreciate it. With the information you have, and forgive my complete ignorance on the matter, may I inquire if sonar works on a more or less "line of sight" basis, and if it does, have you ever succumbed to speculation upon sonar's capability to defeat the curvature issue?
@@4321dud not everybody is sonar technician, but i was trained to listen and recognize targets. there is other guys trained to use active sonar, maybe in submarines they do both of things but in finnish navy we have different soldiers to use passive and active sonars. Hope you find out or maybe you should enlist and do it as a job 😉
Rokkikukko 99: thank you, Sir. Take care. By the way, I'm too old to join much of anything.
You hear a ping: :|
You are at the middle of the sea: :O
You are in a submarine: ;-;
There is no ally ship or submarine near: *PANIC*
No, you note bearing, range, and depth. Note where you are regards the layer, identify by type of sonar the type of ship sending it, and you move-off quickly but quietly, all the while figuring your firing-solution. You ready a decoy and check the status of your countermeasures. Become wary? Yes. Panic? NEVER
AN/SQS-53?
Yep most likely!
Sounds like an old 26 sweep in the middle
@@Ping_Jockey I'm sure someone named "ping jockey" would know more than me about this stuff XD So is it from two sources then? One using the 53 and another using the 26?
what does this shit mean
@@AverageAlien Hahaha it's just various types of bow sonars used by the US Navy. Each sonar has a distinctive sound, which means that a listener can classify whatever is using active sonar. I've heard the SQS-53 a couple times, which made me guess that this was that particular one.
Please post more when you have the opportunity! What is the source of this sonar noise?
These pings are from a military vessel. Can't be sure on what type of vessel.. either a sub or ship. I'll try post another vid soon!
Thanks, that’s very interesting. Other videos seem to match this with the AN/SQS-53 Sonar on Arleigh Burke - Class Destroyers
speardfrog1 When was this recorded ? Is it recent
@@Slothdeman 5th of may 2010 at the strait of georgia, canada
@@speardfrog1 sounds like an arleigh burke class destroyer to me. and im pretty confident in that guess.
Whats all that
Is that the prop churning at 1khz? From the ship/boat the sonar being launched from
Sounds like surface noises from 8.10 rain or the sonar being pulled through the water?
Think those high 3-4.5 whistles are just specific high pulses. Used to look for something that the lower hz. Can't pick up?! Better for close range? Spotting a type of object? I dono.
If I put up dumb answers someone will get pissed off and correct me so I hope I helped ...
@@samuelsammington3572 That's correct. Sonars switch to higher frequency sweeps to increase resolution. Some have an automatic setting where a steep ground incoming or shallow formation ahead can trigger the system to switch to a different freq depending on if it's a close ground feature or if it wants a more long range analysis if nothing interesting is near.
Fe Sc but is this sonar deadly? Like if you were diving a few metres away from it and it was operating like this, what would happen?
I want my car alarm to sound like this
Makes me think of Wolf's call movie
Thats a brilliant film
I'm right in the middle of watching it now, came here to see if active sonar does indeed sound like that
What is all the reverb I hear after each pulse? Assuming they're in open ocean, what would cause all of the muddy reverb? Does the sound reflect back to the detector from particulates in the water? Hoping someone with some actual knowledge on this can chime in!
those are echoes off the environment, other vessels, anything that can reflect sound makes its own echo and theyre all picked up by the microphone
Where was this taken? I know military aren’t supposed to use active sonar is often as it can kill humans and wildlife, though I assume it’s not as strict in open ocean
The active sonar don't kill wildlife any more, the army change that in the 80s
OWWS OneWingWankerSquadron because they said it doesn’t or like they changed it up so it actually doesnt
@@owwsonewingwankersquadron5955 Yes
Only the British navy and French navy decided to stop using active sonar when any mammal is detected in an area. Americans and Russians and other nations don’t seem to care for now. Maybe that’ll change. They maybe changed the equipment since the 80s, for sure, but didn’t change the « tactic ».
Straight of Georgia.
The last sound really seems to be the odd one here... What a strange sound.
This recording below has that exact same sound, in more detail and as a repeated pulse - probably the same type of vessel
ruclips.net/video/8ROJ6U5RTRI/видео.html
Have some of these pings been censored? Sounds like deliberate audio cuts.
None of it is censored afaik. The rapid bursts of alternating pings are for detecting things very close as it leaves a moment of brief quiet between each ping to show any echos if there are any. I’m not a sonarmen, so I’m likely very wrong.
Sonar is generally speaking very loud, so it's possible that in some areas it might actually be clipping on the receiver, so the sound is going higher up than the receiver can actually work to etc, not outside the realm of possibility
No, you can clearly here that the background or noise floor doesn't change.
Are the different pings mean differnet things? Some of the pings are long whole other are short and close together.
Depends on the conditions like water depth, range or the type of target. Short distance: short pulse or fast stepped/ramped pulses, also low volume. For longer distances you need more volume and can use longer pulses that are easier to detect and so on. The louder the pulse, the louder the reverb that's coming back from the surface or bottom of the ocean, sometimes its necessary to use a quiet pulse to even detect a vessel because of all the noise. There's a lot to it, very interesting stuff.
@@simonbecker748 Different frequencies penetrate the water e t c differently, just like light does.
So, not being an expert on sonar, I would guess they use a range to burn through water layers e t c.
At what distance this was recorded?
@Sunamer Z that's some horrible grammar
He’s KGB, he’s looking for secrets
Around 200 or more KM probably
@vojtakkojecky7765 i would guess from the vessel itself as you can hear return of the ping which is unlikely if you heard it from 200km away. also you hear propulsion noises so it confirms the theory of it being recorded on a ship and thus likely on the arleigh burke class that used the sonar
How does it create this sound? If I was next to the sonar while it was pinging what would happen to me?
The sounds are made by what are effectively underwater speakers, called Transducers. These are violently loud sounds, if you've ever been by something so loud you could feel it, it's like that but instead of just feeling it it ruptures your eardrums and even your lungs if you were close enough. That's why if your ever diving and you hear that, diving is done for the day, going up to surface is a must.
Ionized Virta right I get you! So on this video how was it captured like was it a few miles away or closer ?
Thanks for the info buddy!
@@Slothdeman Im sorry i cant be of that much help, but im guessing since it is very, very high quality audio of these pings, it is likely a submerged scientific hydrophone, maybe 30km offshore, so maybe 50km-100km away from the vessel emitting the pings. Just shows how loud these sounds are, if you can hear them from halfway across earth's oceans.
Ionized Virta That is crazy bro! I find sonar so interesting like! But also just one more question, the way it is picked up as a pinging sound on the microphone. Does it sound exactly like that to your ears or is it a slightly different tone ?
@@Slothdeman it would sound a little different, and assuming you didnt die from the sheer loudness, it would be ear piercingly loud.
What a great sound
Helps me sleep and focus
AN/SQS-53. Arleigh-Burke class Destroyer.
How do you listen to the underwater arrays? I found the website for VENUS but nothing on any sort of stream, only video feeds. Do you have to be a member of University of Victoria or something? I thought they said it was publicly available?
University of Hawaii has some arrays around Hawaii that get a fair amount of traffic
I want to get the pleasure of hearing sonar one day, I’ve never been diving though... how could I make it a possibility?
@r_ elentless01 no I wouldn’t, I have seen videos !
@r_ elentless01 As a retired submariner who sat sonar watch and stood below decks watch, I can tell you that we were trained to use active sonar to repel divers because it was deadly to humans. That being said, anytime we tested the active sonar for maintenance, we had to ensure that we didn't have any repair divers in the water anywhere on the pier, and when we did dead fish would float up around the boat. It's not the frequency, rather it's the power level used to create the pulse that does damage to hollow organ. No different than a bomb blast, same pressure wave physics.
Well, first you will need to build one of these:
github.com/Supermagnum/piezoelectric
Then you will need to be in the right place at the right time.. And be extremely lucky.
Just wondering though, if the sonar ping can kill a diver then how does it not affect the crew in the sub? Maybe a stupid question but would it not be super loud for them
@@mariaoconnor3740 Yes, crews in submarines can hear active sonar pulses pretty loudly when they're let off. The reason they're not affected is because they have a submarine's hull in between them and the sonar pulse, which is why they don't immediately start dying horribly when active sonar is used.
Where I might download this sound to be used in my phone?
my redneck mind immediately resorts to: oh boy what will happen if you fire a sonar ON LAND!?
sadly it wouldn't be as impressive as it sounds underwater
Would be nice to get a higher quality version, like the WAV file from this. Would you care you share it?
My eyes not good. Writing on screen so tiny! Is there info on screen telling what thermal layer they're at? Blade rate?
Dumb question; but, off of what do the echoes bounce?
Anything solid. If it's steel or concrete, you get a super well defined return. If it's softer, like sand or wood, some of the pulse is absorbed and you get a lower return. Biological material, like plant life or marine animals, absorb a lot more.
The pings can also bounce off the surface and bottom of the ocean, but a surface bounce is very different from a surface *target*.
@@iamnadexey can any bounces be heard in this recording?
@@forloop7713 Yep, it's noticeable with most of these returns. If you notice, you get the initial pulse, then it sounds like it's going down a long hallway. These are most likely reflections from the seafloor/other surfaces and reflections from the surface itself. You can even see some sort of a return at around 10 kHz at around 45 seconds on the graph.
Edit: Also, at 1:07 you can hear and see the return from the first FM slide, and can hear the returns from most of the others.
@@iamnadexey thanks!
Is it possible to download these recordings somewhere?
google youtube to mp3
there's thousands of sites that turn the link into an mp3/mp4 for you to download
@@doktork3406 Yes.. I know that.. I was referring to separately downloading original sound files/recordings used here plus possibly other recordings similar to this (public ones).
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One ping please. One ping only.
Dude FUUUUCK THAT 😅
great
Okay, how much of that was some kind of tonal variance and how much of what I was hearing my earbuds telling me to go f--- myself for trying to make them make these tones? :D
Which pings are from a submarine?
none. submarines dont use active sonar under pretty much any cicumstance as it would give away their position. the only time a submarine would really use their active sonar is if they know they have been spotted and are in a standoff with another submarine that they need more information on where they are. as a desperate hope of getting the enemy before they get them
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Ein gesunkenes Schiff?
This is awful.. your "ears"would bleed if you were underwater...those poor animals 😥😥
i've heard that it's strong enough to turn your brains into mush
Yeah but the animals have to be like right next to the sub for that to happen.
I’m pretty sure they’re sometimes strong enough to kill you
Whales make noise this loud underwater. Ban the whales. ;-)
Sperm whales produce sounds up to 230db.
I thinks it’s a 3 bladed submarine???
What
Why not use infrared sonar so the enemy can't see it?
Infrared probably doesn’t work too well underwater
@@teunw6699 ----Cuts right through man.
The pings can't be seen either.
Infrared sonar doesn't exist. Infrared is light. This is sound.
:D :D :D
@@teunw6699 *Infrared* Sonar
I plugged my earphone without wearing them (it's at 100 volume)
my earphones is a little far away
Not 1 meter it's on my feet I still can hear it even though it's on my feet (My house is very quiet)
It sounds... So terrible! It means if I wear my earphones with 100% volume my ears would probably dead.
It's a little loud.
Compared to music it's not that loud when it's on my feet
I hear it a little
but this sound is kinda loud to hear it
That’s the sound sonars make when they receive another sonar from another ship or submarine
Cold war asmr
Military sonar is significantly lower in frequency, also they very rarely go active like this, it’s much more likely some kind of nav beacon or someone doing a survey.
Actually this is Mid-Frequency active military sonar (“Mid-Frequency” is considered between 1 kHz and 10 kHz - within the human auditory band.) The US Navy carries mid-frequency sonar systems aboard its cruisers, destroyers, frigates, submarines, helicopters, and aircraft. The source could be from 53 series sonar, employed on Arleigh Burke or Spruance class destroyers or possibly a Ticonderoga class cruiser.
Sounds like military sonar to me. I agree with speard. Most likely a 53. The third set of pulses is a dead giveaway.
@@speardfrog1 can an active sonar detect those silent diesel subs?
Wrong.
Signed , ex Royal Navy sonar operator.
@@potato2941 yes. The sound bounces off any object large enough in the water. If you have an idea where it might be , and it’s within active range - which is pretty far - then an active sweep may well conform your suspicions.
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Half of these sound are from orcas... No submarie makes rhese aounds and reaponsse that fast. Must be orcas and for submarine i rhink norwegian
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Im think this is some kind of naval sub.
Us does echo but this is not like exh9... This nust ve Norwegian sub
this is the US AN/SQS 53 used on spruance class destroyers, arleigh burke class destroyers and
Ticonderoga-class cruisers. so not wildlife not a sub and not norwegian. its most likely a US destroyer. and subs dont really use active sonar
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is this real? any source or something? thanks
No source but its probably surface ship destroyer/cruiser i heared people saying its Alain Burke class
this is the sound of the AN/SQS-53 which is used on the arleigh burke class destroyer, the spruance class destroyer and the
Ticonderoga class cruiser.