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...entails a more direct and immediate threat to the U.S.: Soviet submarines armed with missiles targeted on the U.S. have tended to take up their stations in the open waters of the North Pacific, between Hawaii and Alaska. Their movements can be monitored relatively easily by U.S. antisubmarine warfare (ASW) forces. But the latest Soviet submarines, fitted with new longer-range missiles, could hit targets in the continental U.S. from farther awayfrom the Sea of Okhotsk north of Hokkaido, which is sheltered by the Soviet mainland, a peninsula and the Kuril Islands. Japanese and American experts believe the Soviet Union...
...some occasions, the U.S. hunters pounce on the Soviet sub in what the Navy euphemistically calls "informal exercises." The object of the chase is to give the Soviet submarines a healthy respect for the capabilities of the U.S. Navy's ASW (Antisubmarine Warfare) forces. In a duel reminiscent of the fictional shoot-out in The Bedford Incident, a U.S. destroyer locks on the enemy boat and tracks his every move. Sometimes, to impress on the Soviets the futility of their plight, an American skipper will play The Volga Boatmen over and over again on his destroyer's underwater sound system...
...expanding science of oceanology, still largely dependent on instrumented probes from surface ships and buoys for undersea investigations, has increased the demand for manned exploration of the depths. And spurred by the need of effective submarine rescue craft and anti-submarine-warfare (ASW) systems, the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office has been financing and encouraging the development of devices that enable men to experiment and work far beneath the waves, even at depths where pressure would crush a conventional submarine...
...ASROC. A surface-to-subsurface rocket that can deliver a torpedo or a nuclear depth charge, ASROC is the mainstay weapon of all ASW surface ships, is currently operational on 130 and will be on 20 vessels more by next June...
...supersophisticated sonar that bounces pings off thermal layers in the water, can reach out 35 miles, nearly three times as far as existing sonars; it is standard equipment on all ASW surface ships under construction...