SURTASS

Acronym	Definition
SURTASS	Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System

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Navy's use of SURTASS LFAS for peacetime training purposes.

A CHRONIC PROBLEM: PRITZKER AND THE NOAA ROADMAP'S DEFICIENCIES

Further, as noted, the moratorium on SURTASS LFA testing has finally ended, at least for high-interest Pacific Fleet operating areas.

The unraveling and revitalization of U.S. Navy antisubmarine warfare

SURTASS LFA is designed to help detect, locate or avoid such submarines before they close within range of U.S.

Military training gets break from environmental rules

Johnson, SURTASS LFAS program manager, that the navy hasn't adequately considered how loud noise from sonar may resonate within air chambers located in the whales' skulls, tearing apart delicate tissues around the brain and the ears.

Time to Turn Off the LFA Sonar

Additionally, a previous generation of SURTASS ships without an LFA component listened for subs by means of a string of towed hydrophones.

Enter SURTASS LFA, which consists of underwater megaphones, suspended from ships, that broadcast very loud pulses of low frequency sound into the ocean water.

But of more than three dozen mentions of SURTASS LFA in leading defense trade publications since 1990, none have described the system as a counter to quiet subs in the open ocean.

Which is precisely what SOSUS and previous versions of SURTASS did.

As we shall see, these questions prove central to the origin and intended use of SURTASS LFA.