
Originally Posted by
lcloo
Obviously you have no clue to use of deception in masking sound signature in navy ships. Gathering individual ship's sound signature is a modern day version of those old days photo-recon of enemy ship silhouette. With a data bank of ships sound signatures, a sonar operator can recognise an individual ship and whether it is freind or enemy.
To counter such intelligence gathering in peace time, it is normal to mask actual sound of a ship by generating fake sounds, and noise maker is one such device. In war time, turning off the noise maker, or altering the previous sound render enemy's sound signature data useless and make sonar operator's work harder.
Thanks for the info. But tell me this, if you have a noisier sub, you are letting it be tracked giving the first striker knowledge of where they are and a chance of taking them out. If you are operating with a different noise signature not a noisier signature I can take that argument.
It seems strange to my non military brain.