Patent ID: 8371204

Claim:
A bubble weapon system comprising: two or more bubble weapons, wherein each bubble weapon comprises a diffuser section to generate a plume of bubbles in water and control a size of the plume, the size of the plume being selected to reduce buoyancy of the water to inhibit movement of a vessel or disrupt operations of the vessel; the system including processing circuitry configured to: receive inputs including information related to a traveling vector of the vessel and a length of the vessel; calculate a plume size for each of the bubble weapons based on the traveling vector and the length; and cause the bubble weapons to: release a large plume asymmetric to the traveling vector of the vessel, the large plume based on the calculated plume size and being greater than half the length of the vessel; or generate a ribbon plume based on the calculated plume size that traverses the traveling vector of the vessel at an angle that ranges between thirty and sixty degrees, wherein the large plume or the ribbon plume is calculated by the processing circuitry to cause the vessel to capsize as the vessel enters the plume.