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Originally Posted by Kapitan
Nuclear boats can go faster ... than diesel electrics and AIP's...
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OBJECTION!!
The diesel sub USS Albacore AGSS 596 did
27.4 knots in
1953 the speed record for any sub at that time (the prevous was the German Type XXVIW at 24 knots using a walther turbine). Thats 5.1 knots higher than the Nautlus SSN 571 did two years later. In 1973 she reached
37 knots using contra-rotating props and poylamer ejection (again THE record sub speed record for that time, and the US Speed Record not broken until the Seawolf SSN 21 class of the 1990s).