Charles Gaines January 17, 2012 10:34 PM

I could swear I\'ve seen this thing before. Looks really familiar anyway.

BombR76 January 17, 2012 11:19 PM

With the potential US military cut-backs it doesn\'t stand a GHOST of a chance !!!
Awesome technology !!!

Flipider Comm January 18, 2012 05:05 AM

Charles Gaines. You saw something like this in a Jame Bond movie.

Gavrilo Bozovic January 18, 2012 07:25 AM

... and what you saw in the James Bond movie was another American prototype.
As for supercavitation, I guess it works similarly as the Russian Shkval supercavitating torpedo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shkval
In this case, the exhaust of its turbopumps is fed from the point of the torpedo, creating a bubble that surrounds it, and allows it to \"fly\" through water at 400kts.

SanDooo January 18, 2012 07:46 AM

@Charles Gaines : maybe Street Fighter the movie ? As far as I can remember it looked pretty much the same.

Cristi Eftinoiu January 18, 2012 08:10 AM

Looks a lot like US NAVY\'s stealth ship Sea Shadow from \'84. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Shadow_%28IX-529%29

Alan Belardinelli January 18, 2012 08:22 AM

My understanding is that supercavitation is very loud through sonar.

Mack McDowell January 18, 2012 08:35 AM

It looks like the little mining ship you pilot in Descent :p

byzehr.111 January 18, 2012 08:55 AM

http://contest.techbriefs.com/transportation-2011/1302

sgdeluxedoc January 18, 2012 10:20 AM

My first reaction was a creepy sort of deja-vu.. like the last thing you would see before an attack. ..And Alan, as a musician with some experience in acoustical engineering, I\'d be curious as to why it would be so loud to sonar .. my guess is the air pocket acts as a resonance chamber.. correct?