{"id":13180,"date":"2005-10-11T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/11\/sonic-torpedo-defense\/"},"modified":"2005-10-11T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T22:19:00","slug":"sonic-torpedo-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/11\/sonic-torpedo-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic Torpedo Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=mg18825205.800\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Navy is developing a new sonic technology to defend against torpedos<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Navy wants to protect its warships with a system that will destroy incoming torpedoes by firing massive underwater shock waves at them.<\/p>\n<p>The ships would be equipped with arrays of 360 transducers each 1 metre square &#8211; effectively big flat-panel loudspeakers &#8211; running along either side of the hull below the waterline. When the ship&rsquo;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&rsquo;s crushing force, according to the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is funding the project.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&rsquo;t wait to see what will happen when environmentalists get wind of this one&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/10\/10\/2212234&amp;tid=126&amp;tid=137\" target=\"_blank\">Slashdot<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/military\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">military<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/science\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">science<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-112903210881540841?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Navy is developing a new sonic technology to defend against torpedos: The U.S. Navy wants to protect its warships with a system that will destroy incoming torpedoes by firing massive underwater shock waves at them. The ships would be equipped with arrays of 360 transducers each 1 metre square &#8211; effectively big flat-panel &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/11\/sonic-torpedo-defense\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sonic Torpedo Defense&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}