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  • It has also been widely reported that Trinity acts as an extension of a U.S. underwater surveillance system known as SOSUS, which keeps an eye out for hostile submarines.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed STEVEN CHASE 2012

  • The network was known as SOSUS, short for Sound Surveillance System.

    Tuning in to a deep sea monster : The Lovecraft News Network 2009

  • Iceland was also an integral part of the SOSUS line.

    Matthew Yglesias » Defending Countries that Don’t Defend Themselves 2009

  • Plus, we have a network of underground hydrophones (Google SOSUS) and other things to track (Google OSIS) shipping off our shores.

    Matthew Yglesias » Russia and the Missile Shield 2007

  • I suspect the Russians have hydrophone networks on the sea floor near their coasts similar to our SOSUS and can detect/bomb an attack sub in those waters.

    Matthew Yglesias » Russia and the Missile Shield 2007

  • The SOSUS station and most of the P-3 squadrons that had been stationed at Adak during the Cold War had either been decommissioned or pulled back to CONUS -- the continental U.S.

    Arctic Fire Douglass, Keith 1997

  • He looked over in the other direction and saw the squat gray concrete building that housed the SOSUS station, now silent and cold.

    Arctic Fire Douglass, Keith 1997

  • SOSUS: underwater listening-device network deployed to detect hostile submarines.

    Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992

  • He was sent to a SOSUS unit in Bermuda — one of those tracking stations for the underwater sensors we deploy against Soviet subs.

    Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992

  • The NATO sub force trying to block the passage no longer had the SOSUS line to give them intercept vectors, nor Orions to pounce on the contacts that submarines could not reach.

    Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

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