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From: arthur@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur Leung)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Pods on the tail of USSR SSN
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Date: 2 Apr 91 19:36:19 GMT
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From: arthur@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur Leung)

ruedi@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (David Ruedi) writes:
>     I recently had a chance to look at an UNCLASSIFIED photo of the
>Soviet equivalent to a piping tab for a Victor III. [...]
>In my (not necessarily the Navy, Dod, or US Government's) opinion the reel
>holds a towed array, I didn't see any evidence of a buoy.

if this is the pod at the top of the fin seen on the stern of surfaced
soviet submarines, i believe the volume is too small to house your
average towed array.  a towed array sonar is pretty large in diameter.
won't get much of a length in that small space.  the towed array
housing on Los Angeles class boats looks to be about 1' tube running
a good portion of the length of the boat.  might this soviet pod
be used as a housing and reel for VLF antenna?  it would fit better.

-- arthur