
An artist's rendering of how the vehicle produced for DARPA's“Underwater Express” program would travel submerged in a large gas bubble. By Special To The Day
Tras leer en agaudí la noticia de un submarino que podría circular bajo el agua a 185 Km/h decidí buscar el origen de la noticia. Lo he encontrado, está en inglés pero creo que es muy interesante y os lo traigo. Siempre podréis acudir al descubridor inicial de la noticia y leer en su blog un breve resumen y explicación.
Groton – The latest class of submarines can travel at more than 25 knots submerged.But what if the Navy had a much smaller submarine that could travel four times as fast?.
”The real reason we buy nuclear submarines instead of non-nuclear ones is that we’re not protecting the Gulf of Mexico,” said retired Navy Capt. James Patton Jr., president of Submarine Tactics and Technology in North Stonington. “We go halfway around the world, real quick. We get there and we stay there. Anything that would allow you to get a platform somewhere a long ways away pretty quickly would have great military value.” Lee el resto de esta entrada »