{"id":238,"date":"2015-05-06T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=238"},"modified":"2015-09-24T11:15:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T11:15:52","slug":"tork-a-new-hard-kill-system-against-torpedoes-by-aselsan-in-idef-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2015\/05\/06\/tork-a-new-hard-kill-system-against-torpedoes-by-aselsan-in-idef-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"TORK: A NEW HARD-KILL SYSTEM AGAINST TORPEDOES BY ASELSAN IN IDEF-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_TORK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-239\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_TORK.jpg\" alt=\"xlarge_TORK\" width=\"690\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_TORK.jpg 690w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_TORK-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_TORK-560x308.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_TORK-260x143.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_TORK-160x88.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new hard-kill self-defense system against torpedoes will be presented by the Turkish defense industry Aselsan for the first time at the International Defense Industry Fair IDEF-15, in Istanbul Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>The new hard-kill self-defense system is called TORK and it can be used by submarines and surface vessels. The most effective defense against a possible torpedo threat faced by submarines and surface vessels is provided by the joint use of Soft-Kill and Hard-Kill methods.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish system is basically a small torpedo which is capable of destroying acoustic-guided, wire-guided, unguided and slipstream-guided torpedoes that are aimed at surface vessels or submarines.<\/p>\n<p>After TORK is launched it can measure the distance and the direction of the threats that are approaching the surface vessels or the submarines. When the anti-torpedo system approaches the threat it detonates and deactivates the enemy torpedo at a long distance from the friendly surface vessel or submarine<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new hard-kill self-defense system against torpedoes will be presented by the Turkish defense industry Aselsan for the first time at the International Defense Industry Fair IDEF-15, in Istanbul Turkey. The new hard-kill self-defense system is called TORK and it can be used by submarines and surface vessels. The most effective defense against a possible&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2015\/05\/06\/tork-a-new-hard-kill-system-against-torpedoes-by-aselsan-in-idef-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TORK: A NEW HARD-KILL SYSTEM AGAINST TORPEDOES BY ASELSAN IN IDEF-2015<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}