Remote Cavitation

This is an area that is both fascinating and disturbing. The power of this technology is incredible. Behold the Death Ray:

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/04/navy_patents_ca.html

Remote Cavitation, from what I understand, creates a kind of pressure disturbance via two acoustic beams at high power, in this case underwater but I think a spot in the atmosphere would work the same way. A plane flying through such a spot would definitely encounter problems, as would a submarine or torpedo below the surface.

Obviously, the plan is a mobile weapons platform capable of roaming the oceans and disabling communications/craft of different kinds. The combination of radar and sonic force I believe has already been implemented on the latest F22 Fighter Jet, some sort of radar pulse that can disable enemy radio, electronics etc.

The oceans however are different due to the population of mammals using echolocation such as whales, dolphins, porpoises etc. There is already a lawsuit against the navy because of the large amounts of strandings and beachings that seem to follow large technical exercises in the sonar department. See this page:

http://www.nrdc.org/media/pressreleases/051019.asp

So surely the technology described in the above patent couldn't be good for any mammals passing through, not to mention with in range of the acoustic blast this sort of thing would put off. Water does convey waves of all kinds effectively. Of course, the official decree is that mid-range frequency broadcasts do not harm mammals, but I think its clear there is some correlation, if not obvious interference between the two systems.