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Subject:
Anti-Torpedo CIWS
Iano_returns
1/25/2006 11:07:24 AM
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There are many hark-kill defences against incoming missiles, Sea RAM type rocketry CIWSs, Goalkeeper type gunnery CIWSs, point air defence missiles, but none to protect ships from incoming torpedoes.
It surely would be possible to mount a weapon very like an antisubmarine mortar, Hedgehog rocket, or depth charge thrower, to hurl small charges out in the direction of the torpedoes approach, at the right time so that the sinking rate of the charge meets the torpedo at its depth and approach speed.
It could be automated and computed by the ships sonar systems. Only a small explosion would be required to either destroy the torpedo or cause it to lose acquisition in the "thermals" or "ensonified area".
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