Ha Ha . . . funny that the initial comment regarding "Good military aircrew thread this ..." at #12 was made by "MAD Boom" which of course is a magnetic anomaly detector that is designed to detect submarines from inflight MPA.
Anyway, more seriously, whilst I was participating in a RIMPAC Exercise some years ago, we tracked the target submarine for some time out in the designated area. When we returned to Barbers Point and into the debrief, our tapes were confiscated by the USN and the debrief was severely shortened, apparently we had been tracking a submarine that was not involved in the said exercises, though we all knew it was a USN boat, and assumed it was the exercise boat!
Though the MPA can tell between different boats, we had no way of knowing who was who!
Last edited by EW73; 26th Oct 2013 at 04:21.