The AN/UQQ-2 Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS), colloquially referred to as the ship's "Tail", is a towed array sonar system of the United States Navy. SURTASS Twin-Line consists of either the long passive SURTASS array or the Twin-line array, consisting of two shorter passive arrays towed side by side.

SURTASS is a unique program within the Department of the Navy (DON); it had its own navy, 23 TAGOS ships at its peak, with Navy personnel ashore and civilians at sea.

Using SURTASS enables the Navy to detect quiet, nuclear- and diesel-powered submarines and to report real-time surveillance information to Navy commanders. SURTASS is a long Y-shaped acoustic...

The Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS) is installed on Tactical Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance and Japanese Auxiliary Ocean Surveillance class ships as an important element of the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System.

2023年5月10日 · Australia received in principle approval to procure an expeditionary version of the US Navy’s Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS) on May 5th. The total value of the deal is approximately $207 million.

Just over 66 years ago, one of the Navy’s most secretive communities began. Its members went by the code word SOSUS, which means “Sound Surveillance System.” A new front line in the Cold War, they had one mission: FIND SUBMARINES.

2024年8月21日 · SURTASS LFA sonar is a long-range system that transmits in the low-frequency band (below 1,000 Hertz [Hz]) that is composed of both active and passive components. The active component is the...