Typical "Go fast" boats have proven to be largely useless for most manned and unmanned naval/military applications for a multitude of reasons, the...
You should feel honored, John. ;-p
Google the "GHOST" small SWATH.
Because the gas envelope is established by a fairly short-lived rocket engine firing?? Except for that....LOL.
Interceptors mounted on the transom are lift-producing devices, of course. That was my only point. At some speeds, they can contribute to a...
Clearly you have not the first clue about whom you are weakly trying to denigrate.
We've been using transom-mounted interceptors for trim/list control and pitch/roll motion damping for decades now. Can be quite effective for...
"Stepped planing hulls" have been around forever but have more recently become almost a required design gimmi....er ...feature on many performance...
Of the many various air-lubricated projects we were involved in over the years, the data ownership was always retained by the "owner" of the...
The epitome of "use once and forget".
Maybe this will help you visualize it...
Perhaps...for a very, very brief duration using techniques similar to those assumed for the Russian torpedo. Producing sufficient air to "feed...
Thanks!. I knew that hull design looked very familiar. My company built and tested the sub-scale prototype.
I'd almost forgotten (mercifully so) an ONR-sponsored experiment in the use of a "special polymer" that would be mixed with seawater and injected...
Myark; Will that ama-stabilized super-slender vessel behind you that picture be foil-assisted?
Just a quick ad....every time we were presented with drag reduction numbers like 15% or more, they were obtained with model testing. We eventually...
The low Reynolds number "bubble lubrication" I've seen for large ships appears to offer a few percentage points of drag reduction. All of the...
Nailed it. We participated in several "air lubrication" projects back in the 90s, monohulls and catamarans both. All were essentially failures for...
Several of the concept designs we've seen or worked on are going with this battery technology Shift - Clean Energy Storage SOLUTIONS that save...
The advent and proliferation of multi-function displays has really cleaned things up, especially after their adoption by the "big boys" like...