Look Out Below

In an age of anti-ship ballistic missile defense debates, you'd have thought we'd have had this threat nailed down decades ago:

The Navy has taken its first steps to develop a weapon designed to intercept and destroy guided enemy torpedoes immune to U.S. countermeasures, Naval Sea Systems Command officials told USNI News on Wednesday.

The Surface Ship Torpedo Defense (SSTD) program under development to protect high dollar surface warships — like the Navy’s Nimitz-class (CVN-71) nuclear aircraft carriers — from Soviet developed torpedoes specifically designed to attack large ships like aircraft carriers and large civillian oil tankers.

Anyone with Russian-built Kilos will have wake-following torpedoes immune to our other counter-measures.