wake homing torpedoes like the big Ru 26″ Type65 use a optical sensor to look up and sense the disturbed optical pattern caused by a ships normal wake. the kind of bubbles this system generates looks like a red rag to a very angry bull.
I guess ideal strategy is fire a couple of normal deep running sound/MAD fused torps to
act as ‘beaters’ and force ships to turn the bubbles on, then release the bigstick wake homers 😀
USN has experimented with CH53 helos hovering over a ships wake then slowly moving
on another line creating its own wake to decoy wake homers. dont know how successful that strategy is considered.
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