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.

Third, the sub had to avoid being detected itself by the passive sonar array. According to The Telegraph, Conqueror did it, and absconded trailing the stolen device. Divers later went out to ...

WASHINGTON - A Chinese submarine accidentally collided with an underwater sonar array being towed by a U.S. military ship, CNN reported on Friday, quoting an unnamed military official. The ...

As it circled behind the submarine to respond to the call, shortly after 2 p.m., its propeller got caught in the fiber-optic cable that is part of the sub’s sonar system. “The towing array was ...

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In what is being termed a mishap, a Chinese submarine last week reportedly hit an underwater sonar array being towed by the destroyer USS John McCain, according to a report on CNN.com. The ...

The Advanced Flank Array, or AFA, is an internal Northrop Grumman development project designed to meet U.S. Navy requirements for a next-generation flank array, which is sonar mounted on the sides ...

The McCain crew was able to retrieve the sonar array, which was damaged ... the submarine was an attack boat or a ballistic-missile sub, and they were unsure of the time of the incident, which ...

“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 ...

In Sub Command you will have to learn how the cascading stripes of a towed sonar array display actually move and shimmer and then translate that data into contact information. It's quite daunting ...