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Originally Posted by afterburn 549
Last i knew the US Navy had sunken buoys with all sorts of tracking listening devises on them and that was 20 years ago. !
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Actually,SOSUS was operational from the early '60s to the end of the Cold War and was concentrated on both US coasts as well as locations in the Pacific and North Atlantic which allowed the US (and Canadian) Navy to track the movements of Soviet submarines.
Portions of it remain, but most of the bases which monitored the SUSOS equipment were shut down twenty years ago. The technology was three decades old and had to be updated or scrapped.
Again, it comes down to how much money you want to spend on a capability when there is no perceived need for it.
This is the same situation with military radar in the Indian ocean. Nobody is expecting fleets of penguin bombers to attack from Antarctica, so there are few assets covering the expanse.
Now you may choose to believe that someone watched this flight from the time it took off to the time it touched down again, but if it was indeed outside of heavily trafficed areas, as the satellite signals indicated, there was nobody watching that big piece of sky.
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Les