- Ships’ Voices 🧵-
During war the capacity to clearly identify your enemies’ equipment on the battlefield is fundamental (1/6) #svagaiature #History #Nato #Historia
During war the capacity to clearly identify your enemies’ equipment on the battlefield is fundamental (1/6) #svagaiature #History #Nato #Historia
For these reasons soldiers, sailors and pilots train for a long time to recognise the silhouettes of enemy equipment and see them before being seen themselves (2/6)
But the shape of the vehicles isn’t the only way to recognise an enemy, in some cases, as with animals, they have very peculiar sounds. It’s this the case of ships and submarines (3/6)
During the Cold War NATO had a library of ship “voices” that was used to identify and track soviet ships along the seas. But how do you record the sound of an enemy ship at sea. Well… with a lot of courage and a bit of recklessness (4/6)
Submarines had to move right under the hull of a soviet ship and maintain the same route while recording the peculiar sound of it that differed from others due to the type of propellers, hull etc. (5/6)
In some cases the submarine’s crew was so close to the ship that they were able to take some pictures of the ship’s propellers with their periscopes like in the case of HMS Swiftsure with the soviet carrier Kiev (6/6)
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