Beneath the ocean’s surface, submarines operate in total darkness, relying entirely on sound to understand the world around ...

One of the most ingenious developments of naval science and warfare is undoubtedly the submarine. With its fully-sealed design, a nuclear submarine can stay submerged for months, quietly creeping up ...

A collision with a whale could do more than damage a submarine. It could change its sound signature enough for enemy listening networks to detect and track it. In Cold War waters crowded with sonar ...

An MH-60R Sea Hawk dips an airborne low-frequency sonar sensor during an air-power demonstration. (MC1 Jason Noble/U.S. Navy) As the Iran war has shown, detecting and sweeping mines is one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visitors visit the Thales Group stand at the Euronaval 2024 trade show in Villepinte, near Paris, on Nov. 4, 2024. (Dimitar ...

The bad news is that it's been an arms race between more stealth and better sonar, which is why you should never buy a secondhand Cold War Russian submarine. You can almost hear them through the ...

Visitors at the Thales Group stand at the Euronaval 2024 trade show in Villepinte, near Paris, November 2024. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images) PARIS — French defense-electronics maker Thales won ...

Instead of separate tech to spot mines and subs, the Navy is exploring the convenience of having one sonar that allows a single helicopter to do both.