Apathy Curve: Torpedo Zapper

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Friday, October 07, 2005

Torpedo Zapper

An interesting new torpedo defense technology being developed by DARPA:

The ships would be equipped with arrays of 360 transducers each 1 metre square - effectively big flat-panel loudspeakers - running along either side of the hull below the waterline. When the ship's sonar detects an incoming torpedo, the transducers simultaneously fire an acoustic shock wave of such intensity that the torpedo either detonates early or is disabled by the pulse's crushing force

Bonus: if the galley's running low on provisions, just fire off a transducer burst and voila! Fish: it's what's for dinner.

Also good for back-blasting the neighbor's noisy kid and his stupid (c)rap "music."

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