(DoD) A restricted area established to allow submarine operations: a. unimpeded by the operation of, or possible attack from, friendly forces in wartime; b. without submerged mutual interference in peacetime.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
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