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Old 17th June 2010 | 20:48
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Lonewolf_50
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What MAD is good at picking up is a change in the density/amount of iron/steel material due to its magnetic characteristics. The amount of iron/steel plays a big part in making a big enough mag field change to pick up: signal to noise ratio issue. (I'd need to look up a few bits from long, deep memory, but I do recall there being degaussing ranges our subs used to run through to reduce mag signature ... memory very fuzzy). HY 80 and HY100 steels were what a lot of US subs were built with, but that's very old news. I think they have more exotic alloys in the newer stuff.

Russian Alpha class, all Titanium, was not something MAD would pick up ... did find a Tango once, though. Good day for us.

As to A330, I presume the engines have lots of steel alloys in them, which is what I was hoping for with that F-16. Again, more than an order of magnitude less steel/iron than a standard submarine ...

Just out of curiousity, has A330 got titanium in the wing boxes?
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