| Onkel Neal |
07-15-16 02:58 AM |
US Navy's Next Submarine: Super Stealthy and Now Underwater Aircraft Carrier?
US Navy's Next Submarine: Super Stealthy and Now Underwater Aircraft Carrier?
http://nationalinterest.org/files/st...?itok=5Ctk5u8c
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f technological progress allowed for it, the United States Navy would like to develop two key features for its next-generation SSN(X) successor to the Virginia-class attack submarines. One feature would effectively turn the future attack submarine into a underwater mother-ship for unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) while another would dispense with noise-generating moving parts such as a propulsor or driveshaft in the propulsion system.
“I would like some organic means of designing the submarine from the ground up that would seamlessly integrate UUVs,” Rear Adm. Michael Jabaley, the Navy’s program executive officer for submarines told the House Armed Services Committee on July 14. “The dream actually would be if you have ever seen remoras—those are the little fish the suck onto the big fish and go along and not seem to effect the big fish at all, ride in the stream, and then, when it’s time for them to go do something, they do and then come back. So that’s forward thinking.”
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