Posted on Dec 4, 2017
ASW: To Catch a Shadow : U.S. Government : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
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Showcases the combined effort that is part of modern anti-submarine warfare, in which fixed and rotary wing aircraft work in conjunction with destroyers and escorts to locate and destroy enemy submarines. Featured in the film is footage of P-3 Orion search aircraft, DASH drone helicopter, and the ships USS Yorktown (CV-1), destroyers USS Leary (DD-879), USS Walker (DD-517), and USS Bridger (DE-1024) and various submarines including USS Scorpion (SSN-589). Also features footage of Norfolk.
ASW: To Catch a Shadow : U.S. Government : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
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A sad film as surface warfare has atrophied. In days of old, there were two types of destroyers - DDG for anti-air defense and DD for anti-submarine. The DD's had a mega sensitive dipping SONAR that they towed behind them. When bow SONAR (or visual) spotted a contact, aerial assets would drop sono-buoys and other items to localize the target. The dipping SONAR equipped ship would then come in and the kill was complete with close to 75% success. This worked as bow SONAR is not sensitive enough for killing. Only detection. Think of it as a sniper team with a spotter, the actual rifleman and someone feeding intel. Now take away the spotter. That's what the modern USN has done.
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