21st Century Complete Guide to Anti-Submarine Warfare and Mine Warfare: Comprehensive Coverage of ASW with Navy Documents and Publications (CD-ROM)

This up-to-date electronic book on CD-ROM has a comprehensive collection of military documents and publications on America's anti-submarine and mine warfare efforts, with extensive material from the U.S. Navy, along with the history of anti-submarine warfare and the submarine. This extraordinary, encyclopedic collection of detailed material is heavily illustrated with color photographs, historical pictures, drawings, tables, and charts, with over 41,000 pages reproduced with Adobe Acrobat software. The U.S. Navy ASW Concept of Operations notes: "Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) will remain a core mission area for the United States Navy. The ASW capabilities we possess today when confronting potential enemies are based largely on skills developed during the Cold War. Our goal in the near term is to maximize our undersea advantage anywhere in the world by leveraging advances in acoustic processing, data collection and sharing, communications, collaborative real-time planning, reachback support, rapid maneuver, and precision engagement. Battlespace Preparation & Monitoring. Pervasive awareness of the undersea environment begins with comprehensive operational and technical intelligence to include understanding enemy doctrine, tactics, capabilities, and vulnerabilities. Persistent Detection & Cueing. The networking of rapidly deployable and fixed surveillance systems will maximize enemy detections, tracking, and engagement opportunities. Combined Arms Prosecution. Tracking and engagement of enemy submarines will be executed through coordinated and integrated Joint Force ASW operations, enhanced by common operational and tactical pictures that permit precise targeting and weapons employment. High Volume Search & Kill Rates. Agile technology development will maximize search and kill rates, resulting in greater numbers of enemy submarines destroyed per unit of time. Non-Traditional Methods. New technologies will yield enhanced operational agility by employing miniaturized sen