The CAT is cued by a towed array that has been specially developed to detect torpedo's. Doesn't matter if they're active, passive or wake homing. The noise of their propulsion is sufficient for a track to be made. The CAT will then use its passive/active sensor to home and destroy.Digger22 wrote:Maybe a Torpedo that follows an Acoustic torpedo would defeat CAT. In other words the Acoustic Torpedo would send course Data to an otherwise unguided (none Acoustic) following weapon. If the acoustic weapon is taken out the following Torpedo finishes the job, as there is nothing for the CAT to attack?
Obviously this would only work against surface targets, and would be far from foolproof, but does serve as a reminder that any counter can in turn be countered!
Whats interesting is that the US system would be a comparatively easy upgrade for the RN. The US and UK developed the system together. The UK developed the softkill side, with their SSTD, the US went down the hardkill route, but only for CVN's. The UK as a result has very effective softkill systems. The hardkill side would be very easy to integrate as all of the sensors and systems already exist.