U.S. Navy Submarine First In World Fitted With Silent Caterpillar Drive

[tn1911]

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news...rpillar-drive/

American submarines will further extend their advantage in the undersea domain. In the first of a kind, the U.S. Navy has fitted a new form of propulsion, magnetohydrodynamic drive (MHD), to a Virginia class submarine. This promises to make the submarine virtually undetectable, the holy grail of naval warfare.
The Magnetohydrodynamic drive is being developed under the PUMP program by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), first reported in 2023. Water passing through it is accelerated by means of a magnetic field using superconducting magnets. This is often likened to the way a caterpillar crawls leading to the colloquial term ‘caterpillar drive’.

The first boat to be fitted with the new propulsion will be the USS Montana (SSN 794).

Capt. Vasili Borodin : I would like to have seen Montana...

[SteyrAUG]

They already lost it.

Also looking for this plane.

[tn1911]

[flenna]

They already lost it.

Also looking for this plane.

Here is a rare picture of the thieving pilot.

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[pag23]

They already lost it.

Also looking for this plane.

Love the movie...

[titsonritz]

“I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds." It is an ancient Hindu text, quoted by an American.

[SteyrAUG]

“I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds." It is an ancient Hindu text, quoted by an American.

Oppy.

[titsonritz]

Oppy.

Yep, was it in the recent movie? Haven’t seen it yet.

[SteyrAUG]

Yep, was it in the recent movie? Haven’t seen it yet.

I dunno but I first saw it in Trinity: The Atomic Bomb Movie, then in several documentaries related to the Manhattan project and most recently the NF special "The Cold War and The Bomb."

[Averageman]

I dunno but I first saw it in Trinity: The Atomic Bomb Movie, then in several documentaries related to the Manhattan project and most recently the NF special "The Cold War and The Bomb."

My Dad did some commo stuff back in the 1960's for SAC, it might have been sattelites or something similar.
Anyway we were leaving the PX and they had an Alert. The Bombers rolled out and instead of coming out and powering down, they made a run to the end of the runway, then turned around.
My Dad explained the significance of those Bombers ever taking off and what would happen. That's a bit much for the ten year old mind to absorb.