Indian Navy – The importance of the naval exercises between India and Russia.

• Stratfor: Indo-Russian naval exercises a message to United States

Chinese Navy – Still no explanation of what transpired aboard the Ming-class submarine resulting in the loss of the crew but the preservation of the boat.

• BBC: China sub deaths baffle experts
• Washington Post: Chinese Submarine Accident Kills 70

Royal Australian Navy – Australia’s efforts in mine clearance in the Gulf have been substantial.

• The Age: Secrets of Australian heroism revealed

Background – History – An excellent history of the beginnings of the US Navy’s
SOSUS program. SOSUS was a massive Cold War R&D project that built upon
earlier discoveries in ocean acoustics, particularly long-range sound
transmission, and applied it to the detection of Soviet submarines.

• International Journal of Naval History: From Surveillance to Global Warming:John Steinberg and Ocean Acoustics