{"id":92336,"date":"2019-06-19T12:22:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T19:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/navy-patents-sound-weapon"},"modified":"2019-06-19T12:22:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T19:22:43","slug":"navy-patents-sound-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/navy-patents-sound-weapon","title":{"rendered":"Navy Patents Sound Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/navy-patents-sound-weapon3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a day when a submarine could blast a target to smithereens using nothing more than acoustic energy. That\u2019s the idea behind a recently <a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=22&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=weapon&OS=weapon&RS=weapon\" target=\"_blank\">granted U.S. Navy patent<\/a> for a cavitation weapon. The powerful weapon would use sonar to generate \u201cacoustic remote cavitation,\u201d i.e. a big pressure bubble, that would destroy everything from torpedoes to mines. As the patent describes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>*A method is disclosed of generating a predetermined field of cavitation around a remote target in an underwater environment. The method includes the steps of identifying a remote target location, generating at least two acoustic beams, each at a high power output, from an underwater acoustic source, and controlling the generated acoustic beams to intersect with each other at the remote target location and thereby create a destructive cavitation field at the intersection of the beams. The acoustic source and target can be located in unconfined underwater space and at a distance of at least 100 m apart. *<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You\u2019ve read your last complimentary article this month. To read the full article, <a to=\"https:\/\/subscribe.wired.com\/subscribe\/splits\/wired\/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=finalbarrier_text_failsafe\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.wired.com\/subscribe\/splits\/wired\/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=finalbarrier_text_failsafe\">SUBSCRIBE NOW<\/a>. If you\u2019re already a subscriber, please <a to=\"\/account\/sign-in\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/account\/sign-in\/\">sign in<\/a> and and verify your subscription.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a day when a submarine could blast a target to smithereens using nothing more than acoustic energy. That\u2019s the idea behind a recently granted U.S. Navy patent for a cavitation weapon. The powerful weapon would use sonar to generate \u201cacoustic remote cavitation,\u201d i.e. a big pressure bubble, that would destroy everything from torpedoes to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}