Microsoft Live Search Reveals U.S. Submarine Secrets

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Source: Information Week

U.S. Navy officials are less than pleased that an image available through Microsoft's Virtual Earth tool clearly shows the propeller on an Ohio class submarine.
September 4, 2007 04:00 PM


Thanks to Microsoft(MSFT), one of our submarines isn't missing. In fact, it's on full public display on the Internet.

U.S. Navy officials are less than pleased that an image available through the Virtual Earth tool on the software maker's Live Search Web site clearly shows the propeller on an Ohio class submarine.

The picture reveals the seven-bladed prop in remarkable detail. The image was apparently captured while the boomer was in dry dock at the Navy's base in Bangor, Wash.

The photo was first posted on a blog called MonsterMaritime.com.

Submarine propulsion systems are made to be as silent as possible and as a result their design is one of the Navy's most closely guarded secrets.



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