A Probabilistic Approach to ASW Deployment in Shallow Waters

Abstract

The Advanced Air Deployable Array (AdDA), which is a modern air- dropped fiber optic ASW device, provides an opportunity for the rapid enclosure of a hostile submarine in shallow waters. This thesis explores the effect of the deployment depth, and effect of using longer or shorter AdDA array segments, on the performance of eighth proposed AdDA deployment tactics which employ single or dual aircraft. It is shown that when the AdDA sinking rate is considered, several of the proposed tactics become infeasible for certain depth and submarine speed combinations. Still, today fiber optics offer unique capabilities for solving some of the U.S. Navy's and the Turkish Navy's problems in the future.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA257589

Entities

People

  • Zafer M. Aktan

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Black Sea
  • Classification
  • Deep Water
  • Detection
  • Fiber Optics
  • Navy
  • North America
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Operations Research
  • Optical Fibers
  • Schools
  • Seabed
  • Security
  • Shallow Water
  • Submarines
  • Water

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