Pandarra Fog

[Creative]

http://www.cpf.navy.mil/news.aspx/010279

To explain in simple terms, a shipboard device generated carbon-fiber particles suspended in a cloud of smoke, which can absorb or diffuse radar waves emanating from the seekers of incoming missiles and potentially obscure the target from the missile. The experiment demonstrated maritime obscurant generation can be a key enabler of offensive maneuver of the Fleet despite the global proliferation of anti-ship cruise and ballistic missiles.

USS Mustin (DDG 89), USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) and USS Frank Cable (AS 40) test maritime obscurants south of Guam, June 25. (U.S. Navy/MC2 Timothy Wilson)

 

[GTX]

Sounds like a nightmare from an EOH&S POV :-[

 

[ouroboros]

Having to go into NBC mode jut to pop smoke is rough.

Sorta related, what ever happened to the work on seawater spraying to make a virtual cloud around a ship? Or that brute force defense method of throwing a wall of seawater over the side to create spaced barrier to the hull proper as a sea skimmer missile defense? Wouldn't the rough equivalent be something functionally like phalanx with a flat seawater hose nozzle?

 

[lastdingo]

It was publicly considered to be a successful test.

https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/navy-tests-new-radar-absorbing-obscurant/

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proc...ar-navy-should-reconsider-smokescreen-tactics


I'd like to point out the possibility of using RF spectrum fog against incoming anti-ship ballistic missiles (in addition to jamming) as a soft kill.
The deployment would be via projectile and airburst, unlike in the 2014 test.

I also like to point out that warships (used to?) have a self-cleaning capability for their outside areas for NBC decontamination. So self-cleaning after the deployment of such fog should be possible in a fairly rapid manner with a suitable SOP and existing hardware.

View: https://youtu.be/28o8z0ns57w?si=dSSd8U4SK18qLKGa

 

[Josh_TN]

Carriers have a wash down/fire suppression system; not sure if Burkes do. But deploying mass obscurents certainly has merit, especially if you can introduce a relatively realistic decoy in tandem to give the incoming a more enticing target.

 

[lastdingo]

Carriers have a wash down/fire suppression system; not sure if Burkes do. But deploying mass obscurents certainly has merit, especially if you can introduce a relatively realistic decoy in tandem to give the incoming a more enticing target.

https://www.dvidshub.net/video/916483/uss-higgins-counter-measure-wash-down-b-roll