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Originally Posted by Unipidity
I only thought about this last night, so its hardly a well thought out post. However; why do submarines / surface combatants dont have 'active' anti-torpedo counter-measures? Could you not produce a very short range (1000 yrds?) small, maneuverable torpedo to intecept inbound torpedos? By analogy to ASMs, that is. A large, long range offensve missile defended against by using a shorter range similar weapon?
Why not? What would the technical difficulties be?
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Some of the big technical challenges are:
1. Data Fusion - Detection, Classification, Localization (DCL).
2. Salvo on Salvo
3. Acoustic performance (array) of the defensive hard-kill unit in the wake (very noisy).
4. Sizing of the defensive-weapon (array performance, versus weapon size, versus power (propulsion) requirements
5. Fratricide - how do you kill an inbound weapon, potentially in the middle of a battlegroup without putting your forces at risk.
6. Weapon and fire-control backfit on existing platforms.
7. CEP consistency and reliability
8. Many others - this is the surface combatant list. This is and then some for a submarine-launched version.
Do a Search for "anti-torpedo torpedo" and PSU/ARL.