Sonar is a technique that uses sound propagation to navigate, measure distances, communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels.
French F70 type frigates (here, La Motte-Picquet) are fitted with variable depth sonar (VDS) type DUBV43 or DUBV43C towed sonars.
A sonar image of the Soviet Navy minesweeper T-297, formerly the Latvian Virsaitis, which was shipwrecked in December 1941 in the Gulf of Finland.
Fessenden operating underwater oscillator in 1915.
Bubble clouds shown under the sea. From ref.
SMS M68 was a M1916 type minesweeper built for the Imperial German Navy during the First World War. She entered service on 6 October 1917, but was mined and sunk off Latvia on 29 October 1917. The shi
Sonar
…here, La Motte-Picquet) are fitted with variable depth sonar (VDS) type DUBV43 or DUBV43C towed sonars. A sonar image of the Soviet Navy minesweeper T-297, formerly the Latvian Virsaitis, which was shipwrecked in December 1941 in the Gulf of Finland. Sonar (sound navigation and ranging or sonic navigation…
Virsaitis in Latvian service