New Tech: Submarine Cloaking Device?

TLAM Strike · 01-22-11, 11:06 AM

http://www.shiptalk.com/?p=7411

ETR3(SS) · 01-22-11, 12:03 PM

Sounds very interesting. Hope the USN hasn't decommissioned the Memphis yet.

Krauter · 01-22-11, 05:50 PM

Dead link for me.

Gorduz · 01-22-11, 07:26 PM

I guess in theory there should not be any problem creating a submarine with a smoother speed of sound transition thus creating a more refractive instead of reflective surface.

But I'm sceptical if this will work for passive detection (though for diesel-electric subs in littoral environments this would be very sweet indeed

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Krauter · 01-22-11, 07:52 PM

Able to access it now. This is sweet stuff indeed.

Sure you might be able to detect a submarine passively. But don't the majority of ASW rely on active homing to find and destroy their targets in their terminal phase?

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