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Can sonar detect torpedoes?
Acoustic torpedoes can be compared to modern fire-and-forget guided missiles. What this means is the enemy (most likely a submarine) will be detected by sonar in any direction it goes. The torpedo will start with passive sonar, simply trying to detect the submarine.
Can submarines be detected?
Military ASW employs technologies such as magnetic anomaly detectors (MAD), which detect tiny disturbances to Earth’s magnetic field caused by metallic submarine hulls, passive and active sonar sensors that use sound propagation to detect objects underwater, as well as radar and high-resolution satellite imagery to …
Were there homing torpedoes in ww2?
During W.W. II, German submarines were equipped with electrically driven acoustic homing torpedoes which had started development as far back as 1933. The T4 was not an ordinary straight-running torpedo, however; it was the world’s first acoustic homing torpedo.
Can torpedoes be detected?
While radar detection cannot be used under water, torpedoes can be detected by the sound they emit. As most warship are equiped with sonars, they can detect where a torpedo attack comes from.
Do submarines really attack movies?
Submarine movies such as Crimson Tide and Hunter Killer use torpedo chase scenes for dramatic effect. The reality is that a torpedo maneuvering and hunting submarines that are frantically trying to evade is the least likely scenario in a modern submarine attack.
How do submarines engage each other in combat?
A common event observed in naval exercises is two submarines passing within a few hundred meters of each other, detecting each other at the same time, and racing to get a shot off before the other. The other type of engagement is when one sub detects the other sooner, and often at range, resulting in a first shot, first kill.
The Royal Navy’s latest and most advanced hunter killer submarine, Artful, has test fired her first torpedo using a new UK designed and built command and control system. The Royal Navy’s latest and most advanced hunter killer submarine, Artful, has test fired her first torpedo using a new UK designed and built command and control system.
Which submarines will get new command and control system?
Artful is the first of the Royal Navy’s submarine to get the new command and control system – the system will be rolled out across all Vanguard and current and future Astute class submarines. Crown Copright Minister for Defence Procurement Philip Dunne said: