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Technology Made in America sound channel of a surface vessel. An aircraft would Were the kvakeri "made in the USA"? America was the drop the buoy, and the Soviet seamen at once would chief suspect as the origin of the kvakeri because the hear the kvakeri sounds from precisely the direction Soviet Navy surmised that its vessels were encountering — where the buoy had "landed". an advanced US submarine-tracking technology. It is significant, added the writer, that the sonar Rear Admiral Vladlen Naumov believes that the kvakeri operators of surface vessels had not been given were US Navy sonic underwater buoys. Naumov points __ instructions to study the kvakeri. Or, he added, the to SOSUS, an acronym for Sound Surveillance System: — results of such study could have been so mundane and a chain of underwater listening posts across the North clear that only the submariners still carried romantic Atlantic Ocean near Greenland, Iceland and the UK. It _ recollections about the kvakeri phenomenon. As for the was operated by the US Navy to track Soviet submarines _ naval intelligence service, it apparently still secretly in the Atlantic (and other oceans). Naumov has studied spits at the kvakeri phenomenon and maybe curses it in the experience of Soviet nuclear submarines armed with __ its heart. ballistic missiles designed to strike at The writer also mentioned that the strategic military-industrial targets of kvakeri sounds always reminded him of a potential adversary. the typical dry knocking sound of In September 1975, as a Captain Ist g g wooden spoons, as made by spoon Rank (Military Unit 63900), Naumov At the beginning players in Russian folk music. All was given command of the K-182 of the 1980s, other sounds, he believes, are "from submarine cruiser. (A Delta Il-class another opera"; that is, of another Project 667BD submarine, the K-182 he observed the origin. As for the kvakeri conduct, was launched in January 1975 and phenomenon and according to him it can be completely commissioned on 30 September 1975. . understood if we are to recall that the Project 667BD submarine cruisers had became convinced buoys contained water-filled cell been actively utilised in the Soviet that it was actually batteries; as such _ batteries and, later, Russian navies from 6 Q discharged, the signals emitted February 1973 through to 24 April caused by an aerial became longer. His views (in Russian) 996.) buoy. dropped are at http://tinyurl.com/3no04850. Naumov was able to hear the 2 kvakeri during his missions, and from US Navy e claims that he established a PS or PM aircraft He heard the procedure to evade the sonic underwater buoys. According to familiar kvakeri sounds... Fornicating Lobsters and Other Hypotheses Not everyone in the Soviet Navy shared Vladlen Naumov's conclusions. According to E. Ibragimov, a Soviet captain involved in the research, the kvakeri possessed amazing manoeuvrability. They could move at speeds reaching 150-200 interest from the Soviet High knots (up to 370 kilometres per Command, which paid close hour), remaining at nose angle in attention to the submarine. Naumov's statements (in relationship to a submarine. Russian) can be found at http://tinyurl.com/3attxmu. Another former Soviet submariner, who calls himself Naumov's opinion is shared by an anonymous Soviet Dima the Guru, recalled that the kvakeri were heard submariner, who expressed his opinion in one of the — differently aboard submerged subs. One time he heard Russian forums dedicated to the kvakeri phenomenon. something like a purr, rushing about outside the This person wrote that on a number of occasions he — submarine; the estimated speed of the object was close heard sounds emitted by kvakeri through the sound __ to 80 knots. channel of the Soviet MGK-300 Rubin submarine towed- Sometimes he felt, but did not hear, a sound he array sonar. He recorded the sounds and analysed them describes as "sh-sh-shookhhh", as if somewhere close during the years he served aboard the submarines of the | something huge had rushed by—something obviously 3rd Division. This was in the mid-1970s, when the _ that was not alive. "How could it live at such speed?" he kvakeri phenomenon was in its heyday. At the beginning asked. On occasions, "something" small would lurk of the 1980s, he personally observed the phenomenon around the sub. and became convinced that it was actually caused by an Dima mentioned that the "guys" who had served aerial buoy, dropped from US Navy PS or PM aircraft. aboard the strategic Soviet subs (strategi in Russian He heard the familiar kvakeri sounds through the sonar __ naval slang), as people who value their secretiveness, Naumov, during its service istory the K-182 was approached by the kvakeri 72 imes and was able to cut contact with them 72 imes. Consequently there was great sound channel of a surface vessel. An aircraft would drop the buoy, and the Soviet seamen at once would hear the kvakeri sounds from precisely the direction where the buoy had "landed". It is significant, added the writer, that the sonar operators of surface vessels had not been given instructions to study the kvakeri. Or, he added, the results of such study could have been so mundane and clear that only the submariners still carried romantic recollections about the kvakeri phenomenon. As for the naval intelligence service, it apparently still secretly spits at the kvakeri phenomenon and maybe curses it in its heart. At the beginning of the 1980s, he observed the phenomenon and became convinced that it was actually caused by an aerial buoy, dropped from US Navy PS or PM aircraft. sounds... NEXUS #55 He heard the familiar kvakeri OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2011 www.nexusmagazine.com