Tracking US Navy nuclear submarines using publicly available information
▻http://www.vesselofinterest.com/2017/06/tracking-us-navy-nuclear-submarines.html
The purpose of the secrecy around the locations of US Navy SSNs, SSGNs, and SSBNs is operational security; OPSEC. You don’t want to tell an adversary where the submarines are, so you don’t jeopardize their mission. The safety of those submarines, and their submariners, is of paramount importance to everyone. My objective in highlighting the following is to raise awareness that the supposed secrecy surrounding those deployments does not to hide their area of deployment from the Chinese Navy, North Korean Navy, or the Russian Navy; it hides or obfuscates their deployments from the collective knowledge of the American people, who happen to pay for the US Navy though their taxes. The technique I’m going to show you suggests that they are not hiding, and know it
