Anti-clickbait reveal: "The Zargana Countermeasure System...protect submarines from incoming torpedoes...by launching salvos of...small torpedo-like objects...imitate the acoustic and movement characteristics of the targeted submarine."
The article also says this is not new, just new to Turkey.
"Thanks to an international law known as the Montreux Convention, foreign submarines are forbidden to transit [the Bosporus] under most circumstances."
Why does that seem odd? It's an important waterway but passes directly through Istanbul. Like the Dardanelle straights these are contained inside Turkey. Unfettered military transit would is an obvious problem for them, but pretty much everyone wants easy commercial traffic.
Montreux is a pretty reasonable compromise. Note this control was taken away from the Ottoman empire as part of the treaty of Lausanne (i.e. fall out from WW1) but it wasn't surprising anyone when Turkey rejected the outcome.
>The Turkish Straits and the Montreux Convention, which once served primarily to protect the Soviet Union from superior hostile fleets, now also seem to have limited what would otherwise be a major Soviet advantage: proximity of a large fleet and its bases to a major theater of crisis and potential war. In this respect the Montreux Convention was a potential problem for the Soviets since 1964, when they began maintaining a permanent naval presence in the Mediterranean.
Everything Erdogan has said and done the last few years just screams he is planning to, eventually, go to war. For example: why would a NATO allied country buy a Russian anti aircraft system especially capable of locking on and destroying the lastest generation of NATO stealth fighters like the F35 Joint Strike Fighter and F22 Raptor?
Sadly a lot of what this new fascist Turkey has been doing (like military expansion into Syria, which once was part of the Ottoman Empire -- reviving it is the longtime dream of Erdogan) has gone mostly unnoticed and ignored and Christians, Kurds and Yazidis will pay a terrible price for it in the future.
History and human error sadly seem to remain repeating themselves.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 24.1 ms ] threadThe article also says this is not new, just new to Turkey.
I did not know that. Seems a little odd.
Montreux is a pretty reasonable compromise. Note this control was taken away from the Ottoman empire as part of the treaty of Lausanne (i.e. fall out from WW1) but it wasn't surprising anyone when Turkey rejected the outcome.
And well inside territorial waters: the Bosporus has a width between 700m and 2500m.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/naval-arms-con...
>The Turkish Straits and the Montreux Convention, which once served primarily to protect the Soviet Union from superior hostile fleets, now also seem to have limited what would otherwise be a major Soviet advantage: proximity of a large fleet and its bases to a major theater of crisis and potential war. In this respect the Montreux Convention was a potential problem for the Soviets since 1964, when they began maintaining a permanent naval presence in the Mediterranean.
Also, last summer Turkey apparently sold some units to Pakistan, and there are other customers.
I wonder if the main difference, what makes it a first, is that it's being deployed on a submarine instead of a ship.
Sadly a lot of what this new fascist Turkey has been doing (like military expansion into Syria, which once was part of the Ottoman Empire -- reviving it is the longtime dream of Erdogan) has gone mostly unnoticed and ignored and Christians, Kurds and Yazidis will pay a terrible price for it in the future.
History and human error sadly seem to remain repeating themselves.