Submarines: a game of cat and mouse at sea
State-of-the-art underwater detection also poses a threat to conventional submarines. Submariners have to face up to this. The steel hunter glides almost silently through the pitch-black depths. Tense concentration prevails in the submarine's command centre. The commander has ordered a crawl. Only the whispering of the crew occasionally drowns out the low hum of the detection and weapon deployment systems. The sonar operators the barely perceptible signals from distant active sonar systems. Locating a submerged submarine in the relatively shallow Baltic Sea is like searching for a needle in a haystack. Confident, relaxed and with a quiet smile on their faces, the crew face this attempt to find them....
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