Okay, technically, then, USN boomers were not infrequently detected in this way, outbound from Holy Loch, Charleston, etc. What did we do about it?
It became semi-standard practice for an SSN to head out with the boomer. The job of the SSN was to “sanitize” the area. This could merely mean looking around to see if an unfriendly SSN were about. It could also mean interposing herself between the Russian and the boomer, even to the point of “shouldering off” (a gentle way of saying – “ramming”) the Soviet sub. Typically, the American boomer would then sprint off at relatively high speed, making noise but forcing Ivan to do the same, and in the process losing sonar performance due to flow noise. The boomer would then go ultra-quiet, often floating on a thermocline layer (tricky to do, but possible) while Ivan went charging around blind, eventually to lose interest in the exercise. It is believed that no USN boomer was ever tracked in her patrol area. The Royal Navy says the same thing. This opinion comes from the fact that tapes of the sonars were invariably examined after the end of the cruise. In the case of the USN, even the fleet-
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