"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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And makes so much noise that every SOSUS station on the
planet hears them

Is submarine's stealth cruising the only situation the submarine can be
caught in? Let's say it's already located and has a torpedo coming at it. Or
some situation develops where it has to travel very fast to some place, e.g.
some rescue operation or something, it doesn't really matter. In those
situations I wouldn't give a **** about some SOSUS tracking my ass but would
be very thankful to the engineers that provided me with this neat feature.