This is NATO's way of countering the superiority of Soviet submarines, does it work??

From the late 1940s on, captured German technology boosted Soviet postwar submarine design. Soviet shipyards delivered subs good enough and numerous enough to pose a huge danger to Western shipping.

By the time of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the USSR controlled the largest submarine force in the world some 300 diesel-electric submarines and a handful of nuclear-propelled models. NATO navies couldn’t keep up. 6
NATO war planners feared only nuclear escalation could check the Soviet submarine wolf packs. That is, atomic strikes on sub bases along the Russian coast.

But the nuclear solution is worse than the problem. They must be able to take steps to ensure the adversary is fully aware of where his actions are taking him without nuclear weapons.

Desperate planners searched for a way to make Soviet submarines easier to hunt. Any technology that can speed up underwater searches is worth considering.


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