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Even when he talks about Surface Warfare, it's generally ASW stuff.
Adding to the hijack
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I worked on Surtass -
http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/surtass.htm - and one interesting thing came up. The ships initially towed the array at 7 knots, which gave a good mix of speed (to cover more ocean) and quiet (to minimize background noise). But the Navy wanted to do 10 knots, but gain better listening by intelligent filtering of the ship's noise.
The real reason - at 7 knots, the towing ships generated a certain amount of steam pressure and temperature (remember the charts in Thermo?) and the same steam was piped to the galley. Enough to heat things up, but not enough to run the ovens. 10 knots was just enough more temperature to bake bread! Real, crunchy bread, not warmed up mush!
But, I agree - too much carriers and subs, not enough about regular ships.
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