Accession Number:

AD0371717

Title:

Study Mine-Hunting Techniques

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Corporate Author:

TEXAS UNIV AT AUSTIN DEFENSE RESEARCH LAB

Personal Author(s):

• Jeffress, Lloyd A.

Report Date:

1966-02-17

Pagination or Media Count:

47.0

Abstract:

This report summarizes over ten years of work on problems in the field of mine countermeasures. It deals with problems of clustering--of distinguishing between mine contacts and non-mine contacts on the basis of the accumulation of sonar contacts from them. Another portion of the report deals with precise navigation, using the ANUQS-1 sonar with triplane and with acoustic transponders as navigational referents. A final portion of the report deals with the design and performance of a radio-controlled catamaran for marking the position of sonar contacts or for placing a destructive charge near the mine.

Descriptors:

• *COUNTERMEASURES
• *MINE DETECTORS
• *NAVAL MINES
• *UNDERWATER MINES
• BOATS
• DETECTION
• MATHEMATICAL PREDICTION
• MINEFIELDS
• PROBABILITY
• STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS
• THEORY

Subject Categories:

• Acoustic Detection and Detectors
• Underwater Ordnance

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE