Towable pod assembly for protectively disabling incoming torpedo

Details Towable pod assembly for protectively disabling incoming torpedo Towable pod assembly for protectively disabling incoming torpedo

1978-09-01

1980-11-04

Blix, Trygve M.

Ships

Towing or pushing

Submerged object

89 36N, B63G 824

Patent

active

042313112

ABSTRACT:
A coaxial strain cable tows a tube-like net-containing pod behind a ship. nsors on the pod carried beneath the ships wake detect incoming torpedoes and supply detection data via the coaxial cable to a shipboard processor. Processor commands return via the cable to a pod motor to drive rudders and maneuver the pod into the torpedo path. Drogue and main parachutes packed in the pod are released into the path by other cable-carried commands. Power for the motors and a 'chute release mechanism also is supplied through the cable. The main 'chute is formed of a low drag aramid fiber mesh strong enough to arrest the torpedo. Preferably, explosives carried by the 'chute destroy it.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1759912 (1930-05-01), Mount
patent: 3005973 (1961-10-01), Kietz
patent: 3926137 (1975-12-01), Johnson
Popular Science, Jul. 1943, "Bomb Webs" p. 92.

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