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Can electromagnets be used to detect submarines?

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Not easily and quite probably not with current technology. But hypothetically, yes. Submarines do raise masts on occasion to transmit or conduct surveillance. read more

One of the ways submarines can be detected is via magnetic effects. As submarines are large blocks of ferromagnetic material, their interaction with the Earth’s magnetic field can be picked up by magnetometers. This technique has been used to detect submarines since WW2 (along with sonar). read more

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