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Torpedo defence includes evasive maneuvers, passive defense like
torpedo belt The torpedo belt was part of the armoring scheme in some warships between the 1920s and 1940s. It consisted of a series of lightly armored compartments, extending laterally along a narrow belt that intersected the ship's waterline. In theory thi ...
s, torpedo nets, torpedo bulges, and sonar torpedo sensors, "soft-kill" active countermeasures like
sonar decoy A sonar decoy is a device for decoying sonar. One may be released from a submarine or a surface vessel. A decoy acts as false targets for human operators and/or sonar-homing weapons such as acoustic torpedoes. Many count as a type of torpedo defenc ...
s and sonar jammers, and "hard-kill" active defenses, like anti-torpedo torpedoes similar in idea to
missile defense Missile defense is a system, weapon, or technology involved in the detection, tracking, interception, and also the destruction of attacking missiles. Conceived as a defense against nuclear weapon, nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic mi ...
systems. Surface Ship Torpedo Defense and Countermeasure Anti-Torpedo systems are highly experimental and the US Navy ended trials on them in 2018.


Examples

For countermeasures see .


Hard-kill

* Ultra Electronics DCL Technology Demonstrator programme * Rafael Torbuster * Atlas Elektronik SeaSpider In addition, the RBU-1000 anti-submarine rocket launcher is alleged to have anti-torpedo capability.


See also

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AN/SLQ-25 Nixie The AN/SLQ-25 Nixie and its variants are towed torpedo decoys used on US and allied warships. It consists of a towed decoy device (TB-14A) and a shipboard signal generator. The Nixie is capable of defeating wake-homing, acoustic-homing, and ...
– sonar decoy that fakes passive, active and wake-homing returns


References

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