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"Stealth" Boat Could Revolutionize Naval Warfare
NBC Chicago ^ | Aug 30, 2011 | Greg Wilson

Posted on 08/31/2011 6:06:34 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki

"Stealth" Boat Could Revolutionize Naval Warfare

Designer is working with defense contractor on 150-foot model

By Greg Wilson

A stealth boat that moves through water at high speeds and with near invisibility could revolutionize the Navy's ability to carry out special operations on water.

The craft, called The Ghost, moves by generating a layer of gas around submerged surfaces, greatly reducing friction. It's unique design makes it ideal for special operations, according to DiscoveryNews. The ship can reach speeds of 60 miles per hour and has a shape designed to reduce its visibility to radar, similar to the Navy's "Sea Shadow" project of the 1980s.

Gregory Sancoff, president and chief executive officer of Juliet Marine, said the U.S. government is interested and his company is working with a defense contractor to build a 150-foot model. The friction reducing gas technology, called supercavitation, works by generating a low-pressure zone around the ship's surface.

The Ghost keeps a low radar profile the same way stealth planes do, by making the radar waves bounce off of its surface.

Sancoff said The Ghost is ideal for missions close to coasts, such as getting special operations teams into and out of areas quickly. It could also be deployed against pirates and even used to attack on aircraft carriers and destroyers.

Eric Wertheim, analyst at the U.S. Naval Inst

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ghost; stealth; supercavitation; usn
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To: taxcontrol

Sonar could detect it but at 60mph, so what?


21 posted on 08/31/2011 6:34:33 AM PDT by Dick Vomer (democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat, they sh#t on.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

bring back wooden ships and sails for the ultimate in stealth.


22 posted on 08/31/2011 6:35:20 AM PDT by Hammerhead
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

The Monitor was stealthier.


23 posted on 08/31/2011 6:35:33 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: DH

A stealth boat that moves through water at high speeds and with near invisibility could revolutionize the Navy's ability to carry out special operations on water.

Is this boat for the Mexican Navy? The “gas layer” tends to make me think that it’s for them. I understand the fuel is biodegradable and is BEANS.

You might just be right. Apparently, the boat ideal is for supporting special operations, like the crack Mexican Navy Seal shown above.

24 posted on 08/31/2011 6:37:35 AM PDT by Zakeet (If it ain't broke, the Wee Wee will fix it until it is)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

I thought a “stealth boat” was called a submarine.


25 posted on 08/31/2011 6:39:13 AM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: Travis McGee

All of your arguments are good, but I read somewhere in the article, or on their website that it can supercavitate submerged. The huge pontoons could be ballast devices.

I suppose if it were travelling 30’ under the surface the sea state would not matter?


26 posted on 08/31/2011 6:41:52 AM PDT by blackpacific
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To: Travis McGee

All of your arguments are good, but I read somewhere in the article, or on their website that it can supercavitate submerged. The huge pontoons could be ballast devices.

I suppose if it were travelling 30’ under the surface the sea state would not matter?


27 posted on 08/31/2011 6:42:00 AM PDT by blackpacific
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To: sukhoi-30mki

What are the missions of this craft? How far can she travel in this supercavitation mode? Does she have another source for propulsion? What is her armament? What is her suborbital altitude? :-)


28 posted on 08/31/2011 6:45:45 AM PDT by Rannug ("God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware.")
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To: sukhoi-30mki
The Ghost keeps a low radar profile the same way stealth planes do, by making the radar waves bounce off of its surface.
Ug. Reporters are so dumb.
29 posted on 08/31/2011 6:47:05 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: sukhoi-30mki
There was a very large stealth warship tied up in Anacostia Creek for all the world to see 5 or 6 years ago.

What is all this bullshiite about? That thing looks more like a stealth cabin cruiser designed for an NBA star.

This all began before WWI, Google the "Hickman Sea Sled Theory!" http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/boat-design/heres-true-sea-sled-story-circa1985-4654.html

30 posted on 08/31/2011 6:52:28 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (America. Too late to fix. Too early to start the shooting.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
Awesome.

GO NAVY!

31 posted on 08/31/2011 7:02:06 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Travis McGee

It’s builder claims that it has increased stability at High Sea States-you can’t expect anything different from them. You wouldn’t think of building ship without taking such things into consideration.


32 posted on 08/31/2011 7:02:13 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: Travis McGee

A dry picture of the ship-

http://sitelife.aviationweek.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/10/15/6a577b05-c727-4b24-bf1a-a5fd1c082030.Full.jpg


33 posted on 08/31/2011 7:04:08 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki

is that a red carpet leading to the stern? /s


34 posted on 08/31/2011 7:07:13 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Evil Slayer

The same can be said for all the so called scientists ginning up scenarios for algores glowbull warming scam.


35 posted on 08/31/2011 7:20:50 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Where is our military?)
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To: org.whodat
Why in the hell do you build something there is no real need for.

I'm sure they said that about planes, subs, turbines, televisions, and brassieres.

36 posted on 08/31/2011 7:30:22 AM PDT by Lady Lucky (Heavy the head that wears the tiara.)
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To: taxcontrol
Super cavitation is noisy and shows up on sonar like a beacon.

Yeah, but if it's coming at you so fast you have no time to get out of the way...that's worth something! :)

37 posted on 08/31/2011 7:32:54 AM PDT by Lady Lucky (Heavy the head that wears the tiara.)
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To: GonzoGOP; All

Sheesh, you guys have no vision here. Did the first plane look sleek? Did the first carrier? How about the early locomotives and those atrocious first automobiles? Design will evolve.


38 posted on 08/31/2011 7:38:09 AM PDT by Lady Lucky (Heavy the head that wears the tiara.)
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To: bjc
Looks a bit like the Civil War CSS Virginia!

I'd bet the Virginia didn't show up on any Yankee radars...

(8^D)

39 posted on 08/31/2011 7:50:44 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

ROFLOL, we are frigging broke, what part of that do you not understand. Is it the broke part are the frigging part. And no there is no need for it, I do not wish to spend one penny more being the worlds policeman and spending more money the unborn will be FORCED to pay interest on.


40 posted on 08/31/2011 8:02:25 AM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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