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Originally Posted by baggygreen
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Originally Posted by peterloo
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
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People keep saying that..... but i dont believe it for one second.
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 |
ya I know it sounds stupid that this wave homing stuff don't have any countermeasures, but I don't think there is any decoy which is proven capable in misleading them
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