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Air 22
10-22-2009, 01:09 PM
Very Kool...:salute:
http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/national/story/6258705/
mrfixxall
10-22-2009, 01:46 PM
Very Kool...:salute:
http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/national/story/6258705/

I think their under estimating that speed.I'm going back to the navy days,the uss nimitz went 45 knots and that was only on one reactor..not bad for a 100,000 ton ship and is 1098 feet long(not loaded) at that seed out in the atlantic the wind speeds were 80 mph,it made a E2 hawk eye look like it was hoovering in air when they came in for landing.
Ghost
10-22-2009, 01:53 PM
I think their under estimating that speed.I'm going back to the navy days,the uss nimitz went 45 knots and that was only on one reactor..not bad for a 100,000 ton ship and is 1098 feet long(not loaded) at that seed out in the atlantic the wind speeds were 80 mph,it made a E2 hawk eye look like it was hoovering in air when they came in for landing.

I was wondering the same thing. I certainly HOPE we didn't just tell the pirates how fast she'll really go.
ChromeGorilla
10-22-2009, 02:07 PM
Not nearly the ships top end... Most would be surprised on how fast a carrier REALLY goes... you wouldn't believe it... and you really really wouldn't believe how fast some of our subs go....:shocker:
gcarter
10-22-2009, 02:37 PM
The "NORMAL" hull speed (1.34 X the square root of the distance between perpendiculars) of a 1098' hull is 44.4 Knots, or about 50 MPH.
This can be easily accomplished with "NORMAL" power. The "right" displacement hull can be driven to maybe 1.5 so it gives maybe close to 60 MPH. I would imagine anything faster would be hard to accomplish.

The "little" boat is apparently a trimaran....maybe similar to a "Fast Cat" in function so that so that the three hulls have a very long beam/length ratio.
Using such processes make a hull very easy to drive.
I wouldn't even guess what the maximum speed would be.
Marlin275
10-22-2009, 02:52 PM
The real speed is always secret
That way you can't figure out how fast they will deploy.
mrfixxall
10-22-2009, 03:00 PM
Not nearly the ships top end... Most would be surprised on how fast a carrier REALLY goes... you wouldn't believe it... and you really really wouldn't believe how fast some of our subs go....:shocker:

DITTO!!!:) ave you ever seen a carrier do a sharp turn at 45 knots? it looks like a side of a building in the middle of nowhere out in the alantic ocean:eek: