Preliminary Discussion on Generation and Control of Underwater Weapon Launching Noise

Launching underwater weapon will generate impact vibration noise to weaken underwater acoustic stealth performance of the launching platform and reduce its operational effectiveness. The generation and propagation of the launching noise are analyzed, and the generation mechanism of the underwater noise as well as the main research trend of noise reduction are discussed. The generation of jet noise near launch tube nozzle is intensively analyzed, and some suggestions to reduce launching noise are offered for low noise design of underwater weapon launchers.