During the Cold War, the United States maintained a classified underwater surveillance network called SOSUS (Sound Surveillance System) that monitored the Pacific Ocean floor, allowing American forces to detect and photograph the Soviet nuclear submarine K-129's sinking in 1968, even before the Soviets discovered the wreckage themselves.
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The Soviets Lost A Nuclear Sub — America Already Found ItAdded:
The Soviets lost a nuclear submarine and had no idea America already found it.
February 1968, Soviet submarine K-129 vanished in the Pacific. 98 men, three nuclear warheads, gone. The Soviets searched for 6 [music] weeks, found nothing, told no one. But America had a secret weapon, SOSUS, a classified web of underwater microphones covering the entire Pacific Ocean floor. On February 25th, 1968, it recorded the exact moment K-129 imploded. By late 1968, USS Halibut had photographed [music] the wreck 16,500 ft down. The Soviets were still searching. We already had the photographs. And what America did next, nobody was supposed to ever know. Full story, link in bio.
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