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[Kyle]

U.S. Navy Unveils World’s First Submarine Equipped With Silent Caterpillar Drive​

ByMI News NetworkApril 2, 2024


American submarines are expected to extend their advantages in the undersea domain.

For the first time, the US Navy has fitted a new form of propulsion, magnetohydrodynamic drive (abbreviated the MHD), to a Virginia-class submarine. This promises to make the submarine nearly undetectable, the holy grail of navy warfare.

The Magnetohydrodynamic drive will be developed under the PUMP program by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (abbreviated DARPA), first reported last year.

Water passing via it is sped up using a magnetic field employing superconducting magnets. This is likened to how a caterpillar crawls, resulting in the colloquial term the caterpillar drive.

The first vessel to be fitted with the new propulsion will be the USS Montana (SSN 794). The attack submarine of the Virginia class was commissioned into the US Navy in June 2022. Although she is still a new vessel, she was brought to Groton, Connecticut, for further modifications.

U.S. Navy Unveils World’s First Submarine Equipped With Silent Caterpillar Drive

The US Navy has fitted a new form of propulsion, magnetohydrodynamic drive (abbreviated the MHD), to a Virginia-class submarine.

www.marineinsight.com

April fools.

 

[Gilligan]

Tom Clancy was drug in to an "interview" on more than one occasion because of the prescient nature and content of some of his books. Red October was apparently one of those....

 

[herb749]

Jonsey can track it .

 

[Merlin99]

He was a frequent visitor to air ops at pax. He was teaching the asst. ops boss to be a writer and succeeded.
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[jazz lady]

Tom Clancy

He was my insurance rep and would talk to my ex about this book he was writing called "The Hunt For Red October." We got a signed copy of it from the Naval Press. Who knew it would become a bestseller!