Study on Key Performance and Operational Applications of Underwater Acoustic Countermeasure UUV

Abstract

Underwater acoustic countermeasure equipment can carry out soft killing against acoustic homing weapons and improve the survivability of naval ships in naval warfare. The existing underwater acoustic countermeasure equipment, such as air curtain shell, noise generator, and acoustic decoy, has shortcomings in intelligence, maneuvering, self-holding power, and flexibility, which makes it difficult to meet the needs of future naval warfare. Based on distributed maritime operations, this paper proposed to integrate underwater acoustic countermeasure technologies on the basis of unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs), develop underwater acoustic countermeasure UUVs, improve underwater acoustic countermeasure mode, and enhance the effectiveness of underwater acoustic countermeasures through swarm tactics. From the perspective of future maritime warfare requirements, the significance of intelligent combined countermeasures and the key performance such as efficient target identification, independent mission planning, durable and efficient maneuvering, and multi-domain platform delivery were analyzed. According to the analysis of the basic characteristics of distributed maritime warfare and the characteristics of force application, the typical applications of underwater acoustic countermeasure UUV in underwater reconnaissance, lightning barrier breaking, anti-acoustic homing weapons, and anti-unmanned ship swarm were studied.

Keywords

• unmanned undersea vehicle
• underwater acoustic countermeasure
• distributed maritime operations
• key performances