Arun_S wrote:
Apart from hydrophone arrays in leased facilities (listening stations, bases, sensors) in almost all corners of global shoreline, the US does have large sprinkling of hydrophone in high sea with secured RF connectivity via relay sats in space. The high sea is fee use by all nations of word. One may catch the hydrophone fish here and there but one cant break or spoof it and of course more hydrophone fishes spawn up mysteriously.
Arun , past experience has shown that even a high concentration of such hydrophone in a selected area like GUIK with all the ground facility to back it up needs a proper co-ordination from other ASW assets in these area to make it effective , even then there were many a slip inspite of all the above.
The effectiveness of such systems are only in choke point areas , which needs to be backed up by subsurface , surface and air ASW assets , in high open seas the effectiveness of such hydrophone are negligible , more over in open seas these things are open to sabotage and special operation people would just come and take it away for further studies.
IMHO there is no point in mining the sea bed with such system , except in ones own bases and specific areas which needs to be protected .
As an American Admiral stated , inspite of all our advancement in ASW , the Oceans are not Transparent to us.
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