Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Submarines the Machines

Despite being equipped with sonar, two submarines  collided in 2009 because they were unable to dtect each other. 
In the end, it was only an underwater fender bender, but a low-speed crash in February 2009 involving Britain's HMS Vanguard and France's Le Triomphant could have been catastrophic. At the time of the collision, the two nuclear-powered submarines were patrolling the deep waters of the North Atlantic off the coast of France. Despite state-of-the-art sonar capabilities, neither submarine was able to detect the other- probably because neither was operating its active sonar at the time.

Dooooeee!

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