{"id":3728,"date":"2005-10-08T12:24:03","date_gmt":"2005-10-08T12:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2005-10-08T12:24:03","modified_gmt":"2005-10-08T12:24:03","slug":"sonic-shielding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2005\/10\/sonic-shielding\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic Shielding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blocked\">THE US navy wants to protect its warships with a system that will destroy incoming torpedoes by firing massive underwater shock waves at them.<\/p>\n<p>The ships would be equipped with arrays of 360 transducers each 1 metre square &#8211; effectively big flat-panel loudspeakers &#8211; running along either side of the hull below the waterline. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=mg18825205.800\" class=\"external external_icon\">When the ship&#8217;s sonar detects an incoming torpedo, the transducers simultaneously fire an acoustic shock wave of such intensity that the torpedo either detonates early or is disabled by the pulse&#8217;s crushing force<\/a>, according to the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&#038;search=darpa\">DARPA<\/a>), which is funding the project.<\/div>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=1297\" class=\"external external_icon\">warren ellis<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE US navy wants to protect its warships with a system that will destroy incoming torpedoes by firing massive underwater shock waves at them. The ships would be equipped with arrays of 360 transducers each 1 metre square &#8211; effectively big flat-panel loudspeakers &#8211; running along either side of the hull below the waterline. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}