During the Cold War, submarines routinely conducted deployed operations with little or no dependence on radio transmissions. Message traffic was received passively, and a shore-side presumption was that it would be acted on appropriately, without the need for the submarine to transmit a response. That was done to protect the submarine from detection and exploitation.

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