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a vessel called Ghost
2014-10-23
Matte gray, with the chiseled angles of a Nighthawk stealth aircraft, Ghost doesn’t look like a boat. Its 38-foot main hull is designed to travel above the water’s surface, propped up by two narrow struts, both 12 feet long and razor-sharp at the front so they can cut through ocean debris. Underwater, each strut is attached to a 62-foot-long tube that contains a gas turbine engine. Hinges allow the struts to move up and down like wings. While parked, or traveling through shallow waters, they can be extended to the side. In deeper waters, at speeds of eight knots or higher, they can rotate downward to lift the hull into the air, eliminating the jarring impact of waves.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-08-21/juliet-marines-ghost-boat-will-be-hard-sell-to-u-dot-s-dot-navy
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Posted by:Cherenter Hupaviling4186

#6  He will have a tough row to hoe. My experience as a boutique defense contractor of an innovative remote weapon system was not easy. The mil does like to adopt weapon systems technology that it does not think of first. They mission and feature creep you to death.
Posted by: Remoteman   2014-10-23 18:47  

#5  It is clever. The Navy should buy it just to keep it out of other hands.
Posted by: rammer   2014-10-23 17:54  

#4  Pretty damn impressive
Posted by: mossomo   2014-10-23 15:56  

#3  Just out of curiosity, have they looked at how the design would scale? I.e. Littorol combat ship.
Posted by: Sninerong Hupinemble5552   2014-10-23 13:56  

#2  "That said, Juliet Marine faces a tough battle. "Normally, innovative ship designs stem from funded research by the Navy at one of their labs," says Schaffer. "[Juliet Marine] also has a problem with the institutional bias the Navy tends to have against small crafts like the Ghost."

We capitalist call that innovation. The Navy should relax; innovation is a good thing.
Posted by: Sninerong Hupinemble5552   2014-10-23 13:47  

#1  Looks like the nextgen version of Lockheed's "Sea Shadow".
Posted by: ed in texas   2014-10-23 07:34