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 .

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* 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.

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Examples

Hard-kill

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