From: "Robert MacIntosh" <macbuccfo at msn.com>
To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Sounds almost Gernsbackian....
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:09:49 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Oh, great. And in testing such a system it will do what to the marine life
within a few hundred meters (or is that kilometers). Animal rights groups
will have a field day. Wait! Maybe we could test the new fangle devices on
the animal rights groups. Saves the critters and the Navy gets to figure out
if the idea will work. Yeah! That's the ticket!

Bob MacIntosh

>From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
>Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>Subject: [WSFA] Sounds almost Gernsbackian....
>Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 14:23:52 -0400
>
>Shock Tactics
>The US Navy is considering a defence system that destroys incoming
>torpedoes by firing high-powered acoustic shockwaves at them. Ships
>with the system would be decked out with hundreds of transducers,
>each 1 metre square, running along the hull under the waterline.
>When an incoming torpedo is detected, the transducers fire a focused
>pulse of such crushing force that the incoming weapon is disabled or
>destroyed. As you might imagine, these are no ordinary loud
>speakers...
>
>http://www.newscientist.com/channel/mech-tech/mg18825205.800
>