How USS Abraham Lincoln Tracks Submarines Using Passive Sonar (opens in new tab)

The USS Abraham Lincoln \(CVN-72\) relies on advanced passive sonar systems and stealth-focused naval tactics to detect underwater threats without revealing its own location\. During strict EMCON operations, escort destroyers, helicopters, and submarines spread across vast ocean areas using sensitive underwater microphones, towed acoustic arrays, and floating sonobuoys to silently track hostile submarines\. Instead of broadcasting active sonar pulses that could expose the fleet, the strike gr...