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A side-scan sonar device is lowered into the water during salvage operations for downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KAL-007).  The commercial jet was shot down by Soviet aircraft over Sakhalin Island on August 30, 1983 in the Sea of Japan.  All 269 passengers and crewmen were killed

A side-scan sonar device is lowered into the water during salvage oper...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: PH1 F. Barbante, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron 5 (HS-5) SH-3H Sea King helicopter prepares to lower an AQS-13 sonar near the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69). Exact Date Shot Unknown

A Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron 5 (HS-5) SH-3H Sea King helicopte...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED) Scene Camera Operator: LT Azzolina Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

An SH-60F Sea Hawk helicopter from Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron 10 (HS-10) retracts its dipping sonar from the waters off Point Loma, Calif. HS-10 provides readiness/transition training for West Coast helicopter anti-submarine squadrons

An SH-60F Sea Hawk helicopter from Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Pacific Ocean (POC) Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Hogan Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A crewman mans a sonar station aboard a P-3C Orion aircraft

A crewman mans a sonar station aboard a P-3C Orion aircraft

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Onboard the U.S. Navy (USN) Avenger Class Mine Countermeasures Ship USS ARDENT (MCM 12), USN Mineman Second Class Jacob Wooding operates an AN/SQQ-32, a variable depth sonar unit that classifies mine-like objects, during a mine countermeasure exercise in support of Maritime Security Operations on Dec. 5, 2006 on the Persian Gulf. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST Second Class Justin K. Thomas) (Released)

Onboard the U.S. Navy (USN) Avenger Class Mine Countermeasures Ship US...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: USS Ardent (MCM 12) Scene Camera Operator: MC2 Justin K. Thomas, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A sonar dome with transducers is installed aboard the destroyer HAYLER (DD-997). The ship, which is being built by Ingalls Shipbuilding is presently 40 percent complete

A sonar dome with transducers is installed aboard the destroyer HAYLER...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Pascagoula State: Mississippi (MS) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Ingalls Shipbuilding Release Status: Released ... More

A hydrographic survey launch (No. 3) equipped with sonar and electronic equipment surveys shallow water. The boat is assigned to the surveying ship USNS CHAUVENET (T-AGS 29)

A hydrographic survey launch (No. 3) equipped with sonar and electroni...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Makassar Strait Country: Indonesia (IDN) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Phot... More

A view of an experimental towed-array sonar installed on a Soviet Petya I class light frigate

A view of an experimental towed-array sonar installed on a Soviet Pety...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A port view of the bow sonar dome of a Soviet Foxtrot class submarine while the ship is underway

A port view of the bow sonar dome of a Soviet Foxtrot class submarine ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 James Bishop Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A view from inside an RH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter as members of Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 (HM-14) lower an AN/AQS-14 airborne minehunter sonar during Operation INTENSE LOOK

A view from inside an RH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter as members of Hel...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: INTENSE LOOK Country: Gulf Of Suez Scene Camera Operator: PHCM C. Pedrick Release Status: Released to Public Combined Militar... More

Depth 10,000 feet, 400 miles southwest of the Azores; view of the bow section of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS SCORPION (SSN-589) where it rests on the ocean floor. Note the forward messenger buoy cavity and escape trunk access hatches. The SCORPION sank with the loss of its 99 man crew on 22 May 1968 by what is believed to have been the accidental explosion of one of its own torpedoes. The wreckage was located 31 October 1968 by a towed sled with magnetometers, sonar and still cameras

Depth 10,000 feet, 400 miles southwest of the Azores; view of the bow ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC) Scene Camera Operator: Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital... More

The sonar operator talks with pilot and copilot during a flight aboard an SH-3 Sea King helicopter

The sonar operator talks with pilot and copilot during a flight aboard...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Whorton Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Sideboys salute as Lieutenant David P. Reber, sonar officer, escorts Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole, ship's sponsor, from the speakers platform on the deck of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS TOPEKA (SSN 754) following the vessel's commissioning ceremony

Sideboys salute as Lieutenant David P. Reber, sonar officer, escorts S...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Groton State: Connecticut (CT) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Thomas E. Witham Release Status: Released to P... More

A Soviet Ka-27 Helix-A anti-submarine warfare helicopter in flight with dipping sonar deployed

A Soviet Ka-27 Helix-A anti-submarine warfare helicopter in flight wit...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A sailor chips paint off the reel of a SQR-15 towed array sonar aboard the frigate USS MCCLOY (FF 1038)

A sailor chips paint off the reel of a SQR-15 towed array sonar aboard...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Naval Station, Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Ron Jobmann Release Status: Released ... More

CHIEF Electricians Mate (EMC) Joseph Hoffman (in black swimmers suit) and Sonar Technician Second Class (ST2) James Hasty of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS NORFOLK (SSN-714) stand by as the ship moves alongside the submarine tender USS FRANK CABLE (AS-40) at Annapolis, MD. The large harbor tug PADUCAH (YTB-758) is on the right of the sub to assist in mooring

CHIEF Electricians Mate (EMC) Joseph Hoffman (in black swimmers suit) ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Chesapeake Bay Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Todd Cichonowicz Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

US Navy (USN) Sonar Technician Surface (STG1), Kevin Cain (standing), explains the OJ452 sonar display console to Royal Thai Navy (RTN) PETTY Officer Second Class (PO2), Bunkurd Wannoo, onboard the USS CURTS (FFG 38) during Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Exercise 2001

US Navy (USN) Sonar Technician Surface (STG1), Kevin Cain (standing), ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: COOPERATION AFLOAT READINESS AND TRAINING Base: Uss Curts (FFG 38) Scene Major Command Shown: FLTCOMBATCAMGRUPAC Scene Camera... More

A crewman monitors equipment at a ship's sonar

A crewman monitors equipment at a ship's sonar

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Fred Maroon Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

An SH-60F Sea Hawk helicopter from Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron 10 (HS-10) retracts its dipping sonar from the waters off Point Loma, Calif. HS-10 provides readiness/transition training for West Coast helicopter anti-submarine squadrons

An SH-60F Sea Hawk helicopter from Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Pacific Ocean (POC) Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Hogan Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A sonar operator mans equipment in the control center of a nuclear-powered fleet ballistic missile submarine

A sonar operator mans equipment in the control center of a nuclear-pow...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Fred Maroon Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A port bow view of a Soviet Sierra Class nuclear-powered attack submarine with a stern-mounted towed-array sonar pod. (From Soviet Military Power, 1985)

A port bow view of a Soviet Sierra Class nuclear-powered attack submar...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Aviation Anti-submarine Warfare Operator 2nd Class Daniel P. McClintock mans a sonar console aboard a Patrol Squadron 48 (VP-48) P-3C Orion aircraft

Aviation Anti-submarine Warfare Operator 2nd Class Daniel P. McClintoc...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: PHC Chet King Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Stern view of the French Frigate FS JEAN de VIENNE (D 643) - Georges Leygues Class (TYPE F 70 (ASW)) (DDG), showing the DUBV 43 variable depth sonar (VDS) buoy. The Frigate, specialized for anti-submarine warfare, arrived at Fells Point for an official port visit

Stern view of the French Frigate FS JEAN de VIENNE (D 643) - Georges L...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Baltimore State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Don S. Montgomery, USN (Ret.) Release Status: Rele... More

An interior view of the sonar equipment room on the guided missile frigate DUNCAN (FFG 10) at 90 percent completion

An interior view of the sonar equipment room on the guided missile fri...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Seattle State: Washington (WA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp. Release Status: Relea... More

Vice Premier Geng Biao, People's Republic of China, looks at the scope of the sonar screen aboard the guided missile cruiser USS FOX (CG-33)

Vice Premier Geng Biao, People's Republic of China, looks at the scope...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: San Diego State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Ron Wood Release Status: Released to Public ... More

The sonar equipment room aboard the Oliver Hazard Perry class guided missile frigate USS GALLERY (FFG 26) at 40 percent completion

The sonar equipment room aboard the Oliver Hazard Perry class guided m...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bath State: Maine (ME) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Bath Iron Works Release Status: Released to Public Combine... More

The sonar equipment room aboard the Oliver Hazard Perry class guided missile frigate USS STEPHEN W. GROVES (FFG 29) at 80 percent completion

The sonar equipment room aboard the Oliver Hazard Perry class guided m...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bath State: Maine (ME) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Bath Iron Works Release Status: Released to Public Combine... More

A view of sonar one aboard the destroyer HAYLER (DD-997) at 60 percent completion

A view of sonar one aboard the destroyer HAYLER (DD-997) at 60 percent...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Pascagoula State: Mississippi (MS) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Ingalls Shipbuilding Co. Release Status: Relea... More

The sonar equipment room aboard the guided missile frigate KLAKRING (FFG-42) under construction

The sonar equipment room aboard the guided missile frigate KLAKRING (F...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bath State: Maine (ME) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Bath Iron Works Corp. Release Status: Released to Public C... More

An interior view of the sonar equipment room on the guided missile auxiliary machine room No. 1 on the guided missile frigate CARR (FFG 52) at 20 percent completion

An interior view of the sonar equipment room on the guided missile aux...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Seattle State: Washington (WA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp. Release Status: Relea... More

The tactical towed array sonar and bathythermograph room aboard the guided missile frigate UNDERWOOD (FFG-36). The ship is 100 percent complete

The tactical towed array sonar and bathythermograph room aboard the gu...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bath State: Maine (ME) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Bath Iron Works Corp. Release Status: Released to Public C... More

The tactical towed array sonar and bathythermograph room aboard the guided missile frigate DE WERT (FFG-45). The ship is at 80 percent completion

The tactical towed array sonar and bathythermograph room aboard the gu...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bath State: Maine (ME) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Bath Iron Works Corp. Release Status: Released to Public C... More

A view of the sonar equipment room aboard the guided missile frigate THACH (FFG 43). The ship, under construction at Todd Pacific Shipyards, is 90 percent complete

A view of the sonar equipment room aboard the guided missile frigate T...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: San Pedro State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp. Release Status: Rel... More

The sonar equipment room aboard the guided missile frigate RODNEY M. DAVIS (FFG 60) at 40 percent completion

The sonar equipment room aboard the guided missile frigate RODNEY M. D...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Los Angeles State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Todd Pacific Shipyards Release Status: Release... More

A left side view of a Soviet Ka-27 Helix A anti-submarine warfare helicopter in flight with its dipping sonar deployed

A left side view of a Soviet Ka-27 Helix A anti-submarine warfare heli...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

The tactical towed array sonar system and bathythermograph room of the guided missile frigate USS KAUFFMAN (FFG 59) at 60 percent completion of construction

The tactical towed array sonar system and bathythermograph room of the...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bath State: Maine (ME) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Bath Iron Works Release Status: Released to Public Combine... More

The sonar equipment room on the guided missile frigate USS KAUFFMAN (FFG 59) at 70 percent completion of construction

The sonar equipment room on the guided missile frigate USS KAUFFMAN (F...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bath State: Maine (ME) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Bath Iron Works Release Status: Released to Public Combine... More

A view of the sonar maintenance aboard the mine countermeasures ship AVENGER (MCM-1). Construction on the ship is complete

A view of the sonar maintenance aboard the mine countermeasures ship A...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Sturgeon Bay State: Wisconsin (WI) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Peterson Builders, Inc. Release Status: Releas... More

A view of the unfinished sonar control room, compartment 02-174-O-C, aboard the guided missile cruiser NORMANDY (CG-60) which is under construction. The ship is 40 percent complete

A view of the unfinished sonar control room, compartment 02-174-O-C, a...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bath State: Maine (ME) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Bath Iron Works Release Status: Released to Public Combine... More

Rear Admiral (RADM) (upper half) Francis N. Smith, commander, Naval Reserve Force, examines a sonar console aboard the ocean minesweeper USS ESTEEM (MSO 438) during his tour of the Persian Gulf

Rear Admiral (RADM) (upper half) Francis N. Smith, commander, Naval Re...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: USS Esteem (MSO 438) Country: Bahrain (BHR) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital P... More

A crewman mans a sonar station during anti-submarine warfare operations aboard the guided missile frigate USS CURTS (FFG-38) while underway off the coast of Southern California

A crewman mans a sonar station during anti-submarine warfare operation...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Pacific Ocean (POC) Scene Camera Operator: Trenton James Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A crewman mans a sonar station during anti-submarine warfare operations aboard the guided missile frigate USS CURTS (FFG-38) while underway off the coast of Southern California

A crewman mans a sonar station during anti-submarine warfare operation...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Pacific Ocean (POC) Scene Camera Operator: Trenton James Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A helicopter Support Squadron 2 (HS-2) SH-3H Sea King helicopter banks to the right as it follows a surfaced submarine after pulling up its dipping sonar

A helicopter Support Squadron 2 (HS-2) SH-3H Sea King helicopter banks...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Pacific Ocean (POC) Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Catherine T. Hogan Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Operations SPECIALIST 1ST Class Ronald Freeman of Mobile Inshore Undersea Warfare Unit 210 plots enemy ship contacts inside the AN/TSQ-108 radar and sonar surveillance control van during the joint military training exercise Ocean Venture '92

Operations SPECIALIST 1ST Class Ronald Freeman of Mobile Inshore Under...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: OCEAN VENTURE '92 Base: Onslow Beach, Mcb, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina(NC) Country: United States Of America (USA) Sc... More

Sonar Technician Charles Jordan monitors the Joint Maritime Command Information System from the combat center of the aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73). George Washington is operating in the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Southern Watch

Sonar Technician Charles Jordan monitors the Joint Maritime Command In...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH Base: USS George Washington (CVN 73) Country: At Sea Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Sammy Dallal Release Status: ... More

US Navy (USN) Aviation Ordnanceman AIRMAN (AOA) Charles Lindsay, assigned to the Tridents of Patrol Squadron Two Six (VP-26), load sonar buoys into a P-3 Orion aircraft. The Trident combat aircrew flying the P-3 launched sonar buoys during anti-submarine warfare operations in support of an eleven-day North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) exercise is designed to improve joint ASW operations between NATO forces

US Navy (USN) Aviation Ordnanceman AIRMAN (AOA) Charles Lindsay, assig...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: OPERATION NOBLE MANTA Base: Sigonella State: Sicily Country: Italy (ITA) Scene Major Command Shown: VP-26 Scene Camera Oper... More

060721-N-6597H-054 (July 21, 2006)US Navy (USN) Sonar Technician 1ST Class (ST1) Khristopher Joroshek grimaces as he pushes a wheelbarrow stack with 260 pounds of concrete mix during the Fourth Annual Seabee Builder's Challenge held at Naval Base (NB) Point Loma, San Diego, California (CA). The annual competition includes sawing three pieces of wood, shoveling dirt into a garbage can, hammering ten nails into a board, a quarter-mile wheelbarrow race and name that tool contest.U.S. Navy official photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST SEAMAN Apprentice Jonathan Husman (RELEASED)

060721-N-6597H-054 (July 21, 2006)US Navy (USN) Sonar Technician 1ST C...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Naval Base, Point Loma State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: MCSA Jonathan Husman, USN Release S... More

Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Jennifer Kwiatkowski, left,

Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Jennifer Kwiatkowski, left,

Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Jennifer Kwiatkowski, left, Chief Boatswain's Mate Chad Leorin, both assigned to Commander, Task Group 56.1, and Mark Fleming, a VideoRay technical representative, launch a SeeByte, a... More

A Zodiac boat rests on a launch dock after being used

A Zodiac boat rests on a launch dock after being used

A Zodiac boat rests on a launch dock after being used by Marines with 2nd Intelligence Battalion, II Marine Expeditionary Force to conduct depth analysis off a beach at Camp Pendleton, Calif., July 14, 2014. Mo... More

Lt. Yuma Kuwata, from Yokohama, Japan, monitors surface

Lt. Yuma Kuwata, from Yokohama, Japan, monitors surface

Lt. Yuma Kuwata, from Yokohama, Japan, monitors surface contacts while standing watch in the combat information center aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) during ... More

Japanese contractors with the 836th Transportation

Japanese contractors with the 836th Transportation

Japanese contractors with the 836th Transportation Battalion, lower a Sonar Rubber Dome Window onto a tractor trailer at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Iwakuni, Japan, July 13, 2017. A U.S. Air Force C-5M Supe... More

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MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Oct. 25, 2018)

181025-N-QR145-136 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Oct. 25, 2018)

181025-N-QR145-136 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Oct. 25, 2018) - Sonar Technician (Surface) 2nd Class Cody Ellefson mans communications while deploying a torpedo counter-measure system aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guid... More

SAN DIEGO (March 5, 2020) – Sailors stand a simulated

SAN DIEGO (March 5, 2020) – Sailors stand a simulated

SAN DIEGO (March 5, 2020) – Sailors stand a simulated watch on the bridge of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Integrated Tactical Trainer (ITT)-2B at the Littoral Training Facility on Naval Base San Diego, March ... More

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PACIFIC OCEAN (July 12, 2018) –

180712-N-LI768-1092 PACIFIC OCEAN (July 12, 2018) –

180712-N-LI768-1092 PACIFIC OCEAN (July 12, 2018) – Sonar Technician (Surface) 3rd Class Amanda Nguyen, from Houston, mans a tracking console during an undersea warfare scenario aboard the guided-missile destro... More

200504-N-PI330-0009 GULF OF ADEN (May 4, 2020) Sonar

200504-N-PI330-0009 GULF OF ADEN (May 4, 2020) Sonar

200504-N-PI330-0009 GULF OF ADEN (May 4, 2020) Sonar Technician (Surface) 2nd Class Jacob Siken prepares a sonar streaming cable to be deployed aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf (CG 72) May 4, 20... More

200504-N-PI330-0107 GULF OF ADEN (May 4, 2020) Sonar

200504-N-PI330-0107 GULF OF ADEN (May 4, 2020) Sonar

200504-N-PI330-0107 GULF OF ADEN (May 4, 2020) Sonar Technician (Surface) 2nd Class Zachary Baker deploys tactical towed-array sonar system aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf (CG 72) May 4, 2020. ... More

A member of Naval Oceanography Special Warfare Command

A member of Naval Oceanography Special Warfare Command

A member of Naval Oceanography Special Warfare Command deploys an autonomous underwater vehicle from a beach at Camp Pendleton, Calif., July 17, 2014. Navy personnel used the AUV as part of a joint hydrographic... More

An autonomous underwater vehicle waits in a parking

An autonomous underwater vehicle waits in a parking

An autonomous underwater vehicle waits in a parking lot during a demonstration of experimental underwater research technology for Marines with 2nd Intelligence Battalion, II Marine Expeditionary Force during th... More

The sonar equipment room aboard the Oliver Hazard Perry class guided missile frigate the USS AUDREY FITCH (FFG 34) at 40 percent completion

The sonar equipment room aboard the Oliver Hazard Perry class guided m...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bath State: Maine (ME) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Bath Iron Works Release Status: Released to Public Combine... More

The sonar equipment room aboard the Oliver Hazard Perry class guided missile frigate USS GALLERY (FFG 26) at 90 percent completion

The sonar equipment room aboard the Oliver Hazard Perry class guided m...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bath State: Maine (ME) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Bath Iron Works Release Status: Released to Public Combine... More

The tactical towed array sonar and bathythermograph room aboard the guided missile frigate UNDERWOOD (FFG-36). The ship is 60 percent complete

The tactical towed array sonar and bathythermograph room aboard the gu...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bath State: Maine (ME) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Bath Iron Works Corp. Release Status: Released to Public C... More

A view from the sonar dome to the front of the bow of the battleship NEW JERSEY (BB-62). The ship has been in dry dock since November 1981 to be refitted and modernized for return to active duty and recommissioning early in 1983. The recommissioning of the ship will be the fourth time since the ship was built in 1942

A view from the sonar dome to the front of the bow of the battleship N...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Long Beach Naval Shipyard State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Jeffrey J. Stienessen Relea... More

The sonar equipment room aboard the guided missile frigate UNDERWOOD (FFG-36). The ship is 70 percent complete

The sonar equipment room aboard the guided missile frigate UNDERWOOD (...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bath State: Maine (ME) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Bath Iron Works Corp. Release Status: Released to Public C... More

The sonar equipment room aboard the guided missile frigate DOYLE (FFG-39) under construction

The sonar equipment room aboard the guided missile frigate DOYLE (FFG-...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bath State: Maine (ME) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Bath Iron Works Corp. Release Status: Released to Public C... More

An interior view of the sonar equipment room on the guided missile frigate USS CROMMELIN (FFG 37) at 60 percent completion

An interior view of the sonar equipment room on the guided missile fri...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Seattle State: Washington (WA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp. Release Status: Relea... More

Sonar Technician 2nd Class Merle Fishgrab weighs a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher to determine if it needs to be refilled. Fishgrab is aboard the frigate USS FANNING (FF-1076)

Sonar Technician 2nd Class Merle Fishgrab weighs a carbon dioxide fire...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: USS Fanning (FF 1076) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

The tactical towed array sonar and bathythermograph room aboard the guided missile frigate DOYLE (FFG-39) under construction

The tactical towed array sonar and bathythermograph room aboard the gu...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bath State: Maine (ME) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Bath Iron Works Corp. Release Status: Released to Public C... More

The sonar equipment room aboard the guided missile frigate NICHOLAS (FFG-47). The ship is 40 percent complete

The sonar equipment room aboard the guided missile frigate NICHOLAS (F...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bath State: Maine (ME) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Bath Iron Works Corp. Release Status: Released to Public C... More

Air-to-air left side view of a Navy SH-3D Sea King helicopter assigned to Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 84 during flight operations. The AQS-13 dipping sonar is deployed by the helicopter

Air-to-air left side view of a Navy SH-3D Sea King helicopter assigned...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Pacific Ocean (POC) Scene Camera Operator: PHC L. Foster Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

The sonar equipment room aboard the guided missile frigate NICHOLAS (FFG-47). The ship is 70 percent complete

The sonar equipment room aboard the guided missile frigate NICHOLAS (F...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bath State: Maine (ME) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Bath Iron Works Corp. Release Status: Released to Public C... More

Sonar technicians man their underway watch stations at the sonar console aboard the Los Angeles class nuclear-powered attack submarine USS LA JOLLA (SSN-701)

Sonar technicians man their underway watch stations at the sonar conso...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Pacific Ocean (POC) Scene Camera Operator: Ph1 James Wallace Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

The tactical towed array sonar and bathythermograph room aboard the guided missile frigate DE WERT (FFG-45). Construction on the ship is complete

The tactical towed array sonar and bathythermograph room aboard the gu...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bath State: Maine (ME) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Bath Iron Works Corp. Release Status: Released to Public C... More

An interior view of the sonar equipment room on the guided missile frigate USS GARY (FFG 51) at 70 percent completion

An interior view of the sonar equipment room on the guided missile fri...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: San Pedro State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Todd Pacific Shipyard Corp. Release Status: Rele... More

The sonar equipment room aboard the guided missile frigate NICHOLAS (FFG-47)

The sonar equipment room aboard the guided missile frigate NICHOLAS (F...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bath State: Maine (ME) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Bath Iron Works Corp. Release Status: Released to Public C... More

Members of Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 (HM-14) load an AN/AQS-14 airborne minehunter sonar aboard an RH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter on the flight deck of the amphibious transport dock USS SHREVEPORT (LPD 12) during Operation INTENSE LOOK

Members of Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 (HM-14) load an...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: INTENSE LOOK Base: USS Shreveport (LPD 12) Country: Gulf Of Suez Scene Camera Operator: PHCM C. Pedrick Release Status: Rele... More

A view of the sonar equipment room aboard the guided missile frigate USS FORD (FFG 54)

A view of the sonar equipment room aboard the guided missile frigate U...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: San Pedro State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Todd Pacific Shipyards Co. Release Status: Relea... More

A crewman monitors a mine detection and classification sonar console aboard the ocean minesweeper USS CONQUEST (MSO 488)

A crewman monitors a mine detection and classification sonar console a...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Mike Harnar, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A crewman checks the shipboard sonar in a Support Squadron 37 (VS-37) S-3A Viking aircraft

A crewman checks the shipboard sonar in a Support Squadron 37 (VS-37) ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: San Diego State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combi... More

A Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron 17 (HS-17) SH-3H Sea King helicopter reels in its AQS-13B dipping sonar during a demonstration held as part of a dependents day cruise aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72)

A Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron 17 (HS-17) SH-3H Sea King helicop...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC) Scene Camera Operator: Don S. Montgomery Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A view of an experimental variable-depth sonar installed on a Soviet Petya I class light frigate. (Substandard image)

A view of an experimental variable-depth sonar installed on a Soviet P...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

LT. Tim Bitzer, copilot of a Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 (HM-14) MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter, monitors controls in the cockpit during operations off the coast of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The helicopter is towing the sonar device of an AGS-14 minehunting system which is being used to locate inert mines planted by U.S. forces as part of a minehunting exercise during Operation Desert Shield

LT. Tim Bitzer, copilot of a Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Joe Gawlowicz Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military ... More

Members of a minehunting unit lower the sonar device of an AQS-14 minehunting system from a Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 (HM-14) MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter during operations off the coast of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The system is being used to locate inert mines planted by U.S. forces as part of a minehunting exercise during Operation Desert Shield

Members of a minehunting unit lower the sonar device of an AQS-14 mine...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Joe Gawlowicz Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military ... More

U.S. Navy Sonar Technician Second Class Daniel Bergman wears protective headgear while exploring the harsh arctic environment of the North pole. The U.S. Navys attack submarine USS POGY (SSN 647) returned to Hawaii, on Tuesday, November 12, after a 45-day research mission to the North Pole. The second of five planned deployments through the year 2000, USS POGY embarked a team of researchers led by Mr. Ray Sambrotto of Columbia University. During the several thousand mile trek, the submarine collected data on the chemical, biological, and physical properties of the Arctic Ocean, and conducted experiments in geophysics, ice mechanics, pollution detection, and other areas. For the purposes ...

U.S. Navy Sonar Technician Second Class Daniel Bergman wears protectiv...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: U.S. Navy Sonar Technician Second Class Daniel Bergman wears protective headgear while exploring the harsh arctic environment o... More

Sonar Technician Second Class (SS) William E. Cross calls in the "all clear" during a missile loading evolution aboard the Los Angeles class submarine USS SALT LAKE CITY (SSN-716) during the joint military exercise GLOBAL GUARDIAN '98

Sonar Technician Second Class (SS) William E. Cross calls in the "all ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: GLOBAL GUARDIAN '98 Base: San Diego State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH... More

US Navy Sonar Technician 3rd Class Corwyn Smith fires a M-2 .50 caliber machine gun (Partially shown) aboard the Oliver Hazard Perry Class Guided Missile Frigate, USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS (FFG 58). The ROBERTS is patrolling the Persian Gulf in support of the Southwest Asia build-up

US Navy Sonar Technician 3rd Class Corwyn Smith fires a M-2 .50 calibe...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58) Scene Camera Operator: JO2 Craig P. Strawser, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digi... More

Sonar Technician Guns Second Class Clint Foster, Sweep team ONE leader (left) and Navy LT Vincent C. Watson boarding team officer, inspect passports for authentication and ships crew verification during a Maritime Interception Operation (MIO) on an Iranian Merchant Cargo Ship. The AEGIS class destroyer (not shown) is deployed in the Arabian Sea in support of the Southwest Asia (SWA) build up

Sonar Technician Guns Second Class Clint Foster, Sweep team ONE leader...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Gloria Barry Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

US Navy (USN) Lieutenant Junior Grade (LTJG) Andrew Waldman, Sonar Officer, assigned aboard the USN Los Angeles Class Attack Submarine, Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU), VIRGINIA (SSN 774), utilizes the infra-red function on the photonics display. The VIRGINIA is the Navys only major combatant ready to join the fleet that was designed with the post-Cold War security environment in mind and embodies the war fighting and operational capabilities required to dominate the littorals while maintaining undersea dominance in the open ocean

US Navy (USN) Lieutenant Junior Grade (LTJG) Andrew Waldman, Sonar Off...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Pcu Virginia (SSN 774) Scene Camera Operator: JO1 (Scw/Ss) James Pinsky, Usn Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital... More

U.S. Navy Engineman Second Class Daniel Resso, with the Arleigh Burke Class Guided Missile Destroyer USS HOPPER (DDG 70), armed with an M16A2 5.56 mm rifle, stands guard aboard the Military Sealift Command, Henry J. Kaiser Class Oiler USNS JOHN ERICSSON (TAO 194), as Fire Controlman Second Class Geffory Dailey detains, Sonar Technician Second Class Keith Kodani, during a Visit, Board, Search and Seizure team exercise on Sep. 9, 2006.U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST Second Class John L. Beeman (Released)

U.S. Navy Engineman Second Class Daniel Resso, with the Arleigh Burke ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Usns John Ericsson (TAO-194) Scene Camera Operator: MC2 John L. Beeman, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital P... More

U.S. Navy (USN) Sonar Technician (Surface) Third Class Anthony Coles (right), and USN GUNNER's Mate First Class Nic Heimsoth, assigned to USN Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Cruiser USS SAN JACINTO (CG 56), pull on a rope during a Surface Line Week 2006 tug-o-war competition on board Naval Station Norfolk on Nov. 3, 2006. Surface Line Week emphasizes competitions and camaraderie among Hampton Roads-based surface ships and allowed surface warriors to demonstrate their expertise and spirit in a series of eight athletic and 13 professional events. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST SEAMAN Tristan Miller) (Released)

U.S. Navy (USN) Sonar Technician (Surface) Third Class Anthony Coles (...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: MCSN Kenneth R. Hendrix, USN Release Status: Release... More

Lance Cpl. Michael Stroud, a Des Moines, Iowa, native

Lance Cpl. Michael Stroud, a Des Moines, Iowa, native

Lance Cpl. Michael Stroud, a Des Moines, Iowa, native and geospatial intelligence analyst with 2nd Intelligence Battalion, II Marine Expeditionary Force, sets up survey equipment at an overview position near a ... More

SAN DIEGO (March 5, 2020) – Megan Eckstein, deputy

SAN DIEGO (March 5, 2020) – Megan Eckstein, deputy

SAN DIEGO (March 5, 2020) – Megan Eckstein, deputy editor at United States Naval Institute (USNI) News, attempts to navigate a simulated Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) while using the Bridge Part Task Trainer (BPTT... More

U.S. Marines with Battlefield Surveillance Company,

U.S. Marines with Battlefield Surveillance Company,

U.S. Marines with Battlefield Surveillance Company, 2nd Intelligence Battalion, and U.S. Coast Guardsmen boat through channels and survey the water off the coast of Oak Island, N.C., Aug. 31, 2016. The Marines ... More

Gregory Arnold, a firefighter with the 788th Civil

Gregory Arnold, a firefighter with the 788th Civil

Gregory Arnold, a firefighter with the 788th Civil Engineer fire department, pulls a dummy out of Bass Lake which was simulating a drowning subject as part of a base exercise at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,... More

200424-N-ML755-3032 ARABIAN GULF (April 24, 2020) Sonar

200424-N-ML755-3032 ARABIAN GULF (April 24, 2020) Sonar

200424-N-ML755-3032 ARABIAN GULF (April 24, 2020) Sonar Technician (Surface) 2nd Class Michael Suozzi conducts target motion analysis aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60) April 24, 202... More

A Japanese contractor with the 836th Transportation

A Japanese contractor with the 836th Transportation

A Japanese contractor with the 836th Transportation Battalion, prepares to load a Sonar Rubber Dome Window onto the MS Manyoshi Maru at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Iwakuni, Japan, July 14, 2017. The Maru, a... More

Lance Cpl. Nathan Edwards, a Granville, N.Y, native

Lance Cpl. Nathan Edwards, a Granville, N.Y, native

Lance Cpl. Nathan Edwards, a Granville, N.Y, native and geospatial intelligence analyst with 2nd Intelligence Battalion, II Marine Expeditionary Force, sets up survey equipment at an overview position near a be... More

180312-N-ET513-025 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (March 12, 2018)

180312-N-ET513-025 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (March 12, 2018)

180312-N-ET513-025 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (March 12, 2018) Sonar Technician (Surface) 2nd Class Cole Solomon, left, and Sonar Technician (Surface) 2nd Class William Lamborn stand watch aboard the Arleigh Burke-class... More

180312-N-ET513-010 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (March 12, 2018)

180312-N-ET513-010 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (March 12, 2018)

180312-N-ET513-010 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (March 12, 2018) Sonar Technician (Surface) 3rd Class Charles Gornto, left, and Sonar Technician (Surface) 2nd Class Cole Solomon stand watch aboard the Arleigh Burke-class ... More

A partial starboard quarter view of a modified Soviet Petya I class light frigate underway with its variable-depth sonar deployed

A partial starboard quarter view of a modified Soviet Petya I class li...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Barents Sea Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

The sonar equipment room aboard the guided missile frigate DOYLE (FFG-39). The ship is at 40 percent completion

The sonar equipment room aboard the guided missile frigate DOYLE (FFG-...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bath State: Maine (ME) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Bath Iron Works Corp. Release Status: Released to Public C... More

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