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One thing that you guys may not know - it will be almost as quiet as a sub.
Here is something very peculiar to this ship - notice - No Prop! No prop makes low noise. It also allows it to operate in extremely shallow water: http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...s-side-001.jpg |
No big sonar dome hung on the bow will allow the 45 kts and above top speed.
Sonar wipes out at those speeds anyway ... those little helio's can track sonar bouy's anyway. |
There's no countermeasure for any wave homing torpedo once they home on your wave. The torpedo will keep on making zee-zags around the position of the wave while getting closer to you (a S shaped loop) and it goes BOOM when it gets sufficiently close
BTW, I don't think a LST should be used to detect and sink subs. This job is best left to corvettes or hunter killers |
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when peolpe used active sonar to track (asdic anyone?) we got around that by developing a decoy that reflected sound waves, representing the target, and hooray, a countermeasure was developed which was effective when employed properly. When people used passive sonar in homing torps etc, we developed nixie decoys etc, again a decoy to represent the target. take it away from the ocean, apply it to anything military - when the enemy develops something new to attack you with, you come up with something newer to defend yourself with. So why everyone keeps saying these wake-homing torps are unavoidable i'll never know |
So this baby will be able to track down the Swedish submarine?
(The USN have been very unsuccessful in doing that some tests last year) |
Subman where did you get that pic from. Would be good to have some dimensions on it.
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Incredible design, I am very impressed indeed. The cushion design, is that in case of groundings?
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Check the link, it's from globalsecurity.org, although it's a diagram of the now defunct Raytheon offering.
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The only way that I know to reduce the risk is to change the propeller design? (the one that is proposed to fit in the next UK carrier). Not sure whether there are any other which I have overlooked |
Fooling the wake-homers shouldn't be a problem:
Active Sonar - Spoof the Bounce Contact Passive Sonar - Spoof the Sound Source Wake-Homer - Spoof the Wake, I'm surprised such a thing doesn't exist yet Also, You can always mount something like the old Torpedo-Nets on your stern that will detonate the Torpedo before it gets close, after all, it HAS to come from the stern... |
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Some piece of technology you got there!:yep:
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Not an expert on shipbuilding but I think that's the way they traditionally launch ships since there was shipbuilding.;)
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I guess it's safe, just didn't seem logical they would throw a 3,000 ton ship into the water like that |
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Oh, wait, is that how they do small ships that aren't big enough to waste a drydock on?
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