Tudom, hogy volt a Csendes Oceanon is, de Izland magassagaban en csak errol az egyrol tudok... vagy elfelejtettem volna valamit?
Az effektivitasaval kapcsolatban - bar ez meg a korai 70-es evekben volt - eleg sokkolo: "[...] the rudimentary state of Russian acoustic quieting, [...] left their submarines some 30 dB noisier than U.S. counterparts – and hence easily detectable from thousands of miles away."
Egy masik erdekesseg a szovjetek HUMINT kepessegeivel kapcsolatban: "Eventually, with the help of key information supplied by the Walker-Whitworth espionage ring, Soviet intelligence learned of the existence of SOSUS and its remarkable success in tracking Soviet submarines at long range. Thus, beginning shortly after John Walker’s first treasonous revelations in 1968, the Russian navy embarked belatedly on a rapid submarine quieting program, and within five years, the radiated noise levels of their first-line boats had begun to drop recipitously. By the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s, Russian submarines were much closer to their U.S. equivalents"
Nagyon erdekes az egesz tanulmany: http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/n87/usw/issue_25/sosus.htm