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UDT Asia: Anti-torpedo system worth its SALT

20th January 2016 - 09:37 GMT | by Gordon Arthur in Singapore

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Subsea Asset Location Technologies Ltd (SALT) was showing off an innovative torpedo countermeasure system, which it described as an ‘elegant solution’, at UDT Asia 2016.

Carl Tiltman, CEO of SALT, said his company had produced a layered approach that was an alternative to traditional electronic countermeasure systems that are always large and expensive.

The first layer of the defensive system consists of sonar chaff that is designed to be fired from whatever existing launch tubes are on a naval ship. This chaff is fired in a net formation and consists of specially constructed ball-like elements that give bright reflections to

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