Is this bad to the bone or what? Click on the picture!
http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2009/…
By DAVID SHARP
BATH, Maine (AP) -- The Navy's need for speed is being answered by a pair of warships that have reached freeway speeds during testing at sea.
Independence, a 418-foot warship built in Alabama, boasts a top speed in excess of 45 knots, or about 52 mph, and sustained 44 knots for four hours during builder trials that wrapped up this month off the Gulf Coast. The 378-foot Freedom, a ship built in Wisconsin by a competing defense contractor, has put up similar numbers.
Both versions of the Littoral Combat Ship use powerful diesel engines, as well as gas turbines for extra speed. They use steerable waterjets instead of propellers and rudders and have shallower drafts than conventional warships, letting them zoom close to shore.
The ships, better able to chase down pirates, have been fast-tracked because the Navy wants vessels that can operate in coastal, or littoral, waters. Freedom is due to be deployed next year, two years ahead of schedule.
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I was on a speed boat on a NH lake that went about 40mph. I nearly crapped my pants. 40mph on water feels like 100mph does in a car. A boat as big as the Freedom going 52 mph is almost unbelievable. As a previous answerer said, that ship is bad a**.
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That is pretty badazz, and for a ship that is fawking fast. Do they also have stealth capabilities? How much do they cost? How much can they carry?
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I'm very familiar with the combat capabilities of the LCS-series vessels, thanks in a large part to novels of Dale "The Patriot" Brown (as opposed to Dan "The Apostate" Brown)
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Australia would like a dozen of them to run down those illegals trying to get into Australia. Although I say just blow them out of the water and they will stop coming.
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Cool ships! I wonder what the new world order will do with them after Obama kills off America?
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As Tim the Toolman would say "Uhhhh Uhhh Uhhh"! Wow- it's hard to believe something that big can travel at that speed! Something we can be proud of for sure!
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Wonder what Al Gore is thinking about the new ships using so much gas and destroying warming global. I am proud of the men that had the know how to build these ships and to even come up with the idea of them. Some Americans are smarter than the rest of the world thinks we are. Now if men can build ships that go this fast why can't we control our borders
and keep the illegal aliens out of our country. Are ship builders smarter than the people we elect to run our country? Maybe we should start electing more ship builders than lawyers to take care of us.
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