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Originally Posted by daepp
With ours or others' sub based listening abilities, do u think there r a bunch in the area looking for the 777. And do their methods increase the range if the ELTs etc? How close would they have to get to detect them? And what about towed arrays-I used to read naval thrillers by peter Robinson (anyone?) and they seemed able to find anything with some contraption they drug behind the ships.
I guess it's obvious I think, and have thought a along, it's in the water. But I'm a nobody in this department so I'm curious what the pros think?!!
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I can only speculate on the use of subs. From what I heard from one expert, the deployment of a sub requires a lead time--the implication being, they are deployed on crucial defense missions and to divert would take a planning stage or an extreme emergency. Don't know if the loss of a commercial airliner rises to that emergency level, especially if it's at the bottom of the ocean.
As far as the use of towed arrays, we're back to location. Can you tow arrays across a nearly 3 million square mile area? Can you tow arrays across an area the size of Arizona? Without wreckage and back-tracking to approximate location, the use of arrays (which move at approximately 2 knots) would be a waste of assets.