Remember, when in a submarine one must think up and down as well as left and right. Sonar technicians are able to look at the sound waves and identify their source with extreme accuracy.

Chinese scientists' new acoustic technology could help detect submarines with near-perfect accuracy in the Arctic’s Beaufort ...

This system uses accelerometers and gyroscopes to keep track of the submarine's position in relation to its starting point. Sonar is the most well-known navigational system submarines use, informing ...

WASHINGTON (CNN)-- In what a U.S. military official calls an "inadvertent encounter," a Chinese submarine hit an underwater sonar array being towed by the destroyer USS John McCain on Thursday.

The submarine’s sonar has difficulty detecting vessels that are behind it. Investigators with the Japan Coast Guard’s 5th Regional Headquarters suspect professional negligence endangering ...

The U.S. Navy has announced the required naval enlisted classifications (NECs) for Information Systems Technician conversions utilizing the new NEC construct. It is recommended Sailors submit ...

“One of the reasons that towed arrays exist at all is because, generally speaking, all that information comes to the ship or to the submarine, and you use sonar processing on board to determine ...