Glorious success in underwater stealth technology

[fivemack]

Here we have a report demonstrating quite how capable the stealth coatings on contemporary missile-carrying submarines are. Despite both vehicles being equipped with (different models of) the finest sonars that THALES can offer, the lead ships of the British and French deterrent fleets, Vanguard and Le Triomphant, collided in the Atlantic on 3rd February.

Nobody killed or injured, both submarines still watertight, though much expensive metal was bent.

Comments

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

Wow! A great story

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

I couldn't possibly comment.

[htfb.livejournal.com]

The first French reports were that they thought they'd dived onto a lost cargo container, which would imply that the Vanguard was lying on the sea-bed and playing at being shipping detritus. Each boat would normally have had its active sonar off anyway, wouldn't it?

Really you'd have thought that there was even more room in the North Atlantic than in, say, a low-Earth satellite orbit. It does rather imply that there are fewer good hiding-places than one would hope. Somebody somewhere is going to be thinking very fast about some new tactics---getting an adult to rearrange the sofa cushions once you're underneath them is always a favourite.

[pmcray.livejournal.com]

I think this demonstrates just how quite these boats are.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Your LJ post appeared directly above a YouTube link, and I caught the heading out the corner of my eye as Underwear Stealth Technology.