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Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Israeli Breakthrough: Submarines Without Periscopes

Prof. Yoav Schechner and researcher Marina AltermanA submarine without its periscope? Researchers from Israel’s Technion are developing an underwater photography and surveillance system that might make periscopes obsolete.

Close to a hundred years and always the same process: Submarine commanders who wanted to see what was happening on the surface raised their periscope with the “up scope” command, or lowered it with “down scope.”

That’s about to change. In the future submarine commanders will be able to monitor the surface from the depths without relying on periscopes.

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