Joining this battle of stealth and strategy are 120 land-based P-3C Orion airplanes and heavily armed destroyers equipped with bow-mounted sonar domes. Armed with sonars and computers, and with intelligence captured by a system of undersea hydrophones planted along the Pacific Rim, they listen for Soviet ships leaving their home ports, then hunt for them off Hawaii and along the West Coast. The weapons are multimillion-dollar ships and planes, as well as a vast array of sophisticated electronics that could provide the winning advantage if a conflict between the superpowers ever erupts.Ĭentral to the American Navy’s strategy are 44 fast-attack submarines that roam the vast, deep waters of the Pacific. The prize is control over half the world’s surface. Navy against a Soviet fleet three times its size. It is a three-dimensional struggle-under sea, on the water and in the air-that pits the U.S. ACROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN, a never-ending war of maneuver is under way.
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