Re: [OT] Navy releases photos of U.S.S. San Francisco

From: Henry Spencer (henry_at_spsystems.net)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:57:32 GMT

In article <edTKd.6$0u.1@fed1read04>, Mr Jim <nospam.mrjim@cox.net> wrote:
>...If the
>sphere was breached, crushed or simply knocked too far out of dimensional
>tolerances, then the scope of the repair job will be vastly increased.
>Obscuring the extent of this damage is probably the principal reason for the
>tarp.

If memory serves, the USN makes a point of never showing the sonar sphere
and its dome -- not even intact ones -- in photos, presumably as part of
the security surrounding the sonar systems. 

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