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8th Apr 2015, 20:29

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Pontius Navigator

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Originally Posted by ExRAFRadar

I have the Tony Blackman book ‘Nimrod Rise and Fall’ and re-reading the prologue ‘The Hunt’ about how the crew of XV262 spent 10 hours in the air chasing a contact that SOSUS had not detected I could not help but think that the crew had done everything but dropped a weapon on the contact.

SOSUS was good but its coverage may not have been total.

Then not every detection was based on SOSUS which is not to say SOSUS didn't also hold contact. SOSUS information, like ULTRA, was not always disclosed to crews and sometimes it was only briefed to selected crew members.

I just found the following link on the cobweb. Well worth a read. I am pleased to say there is an error but I am not going to say what it is

http://www.tacopshq.com/MBX/Globalth...GRU-SOSUS.html

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