Mutually assured detection - Military applications - The Economist

Better anti-submarine warfare will mean fewer places for subs to hide

"ON JULY 20th 1960, a missile popped out of an apparently empty Atlantic ocean. Its solid-fuel rocket fired just as it cleared the surface and it tore off into the sky. Hours later, a second missile followed.

Better anti-submarine warfare will mean fewer places for subs to hide

"ON JULY 20th 1960, a missile popped out of an apparently empty Atlantic ocean. Its solid-fuel rocket fired just as it cleared the surface and it tore off into the sky. Hours later, a second missile followed.