From: Ad 

http://www.janes.com/defence/news/jni/jni061117_1_n.shtml

"The US Defence Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded
contracts to Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics Electric Boat to create
and demonstrate a high-speed underwater express vehicle.

It will be designed with the aim of carrying out high-speed littoral
missions using supercavitation technology, testing the feasibility of the
technology to transport high-value cargo and/or small units of personnel.

The concept has been used before by Russia to develop the Shkval
short-range, anti-submarine torpedoes in the 1980s, which could reach
around 200 kt.

The notional US vehicle aims to operate covertly - if surface and acoustic
signatures can be reduced enough - and manage speed while avoiding surface
wave 'slamming' injuries.

Proposal documents seen by Jane's suggest that the demonstrator vehicle
will improve upon the Shkval with a movable, retractable cavitator on its
nose cone. "


Yeeeee haaaaahh......

200 knots under water.....could use it for harpooning whales....

Adam

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