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A faint trace appears on the starboard side of the screen, indicating something far away is making noise in the water. The young broadband operator listens and classifies it as biologics—just like the other hundreds of traces he has seen on this watch. It soon fades out—just like the other traces. There are a few contacts on the port side, merchant ships that have been tracked since the beginning of the watch. The watch team is searching for the new Chinese submarine. Intelligence says it left port under the cover of night heading east. Another thin trace on the starboard side, but as the broadband operator scrolls over to interrogate, a ping draws everyone’s attention back to port.
A Tool for the Future Submarine Force
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."The fatigue of deployment is forgotten with the sharp sound of an active sonar ping. It is on. Broadband scrolls his cursor over to the active and calls out the bearing to the sonar supervisor. The captain arrives as battle stations is called away. “Narrowband, find that submarine!” he calls out. Another ping echoes through the hull. A trace down the bearing of the active begins to draw forward as the unknown contact closes."...
..."The fatigue of deployment is forgotten with the sharp sound of an active sonar ping. It is on. Broadband scrolls his cursor over to the active and calls out the bearing to the sonar supervisor. The captain arrives as battle stations is called away. “Narrowband, find that submarine!” he calls out. Another ping echoes through the hull. A trace down the bearing of the active begins to draw forward as the unknown contact closes."...
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