Submarine target strength, explained

From the echo to the coating, one step at a time: what a sonar echo carries, how a hull's echo is measured and computed body by body, and what shaping and coatings buy. Written from the designer's side of the problem, at unclassified, headline level.

Target strength · Article 1

What an echo can tell a sonar, and three assumptions that make it computable

Who needs the echo figure and why, what an echo carries, and the three assumptions behind a computable target strength.

22 October 2026

Every note describes methods at an unclassified, headline level. Notes marked ↗ are hosted on suniltyagi.in, the founder's scholarly site.