X-Craft gets her water wings.
The US Navy recently took possession of its new Catamaran catamaran (kăt'əmərăn`), watercraft made up of two connected hulls or a single hull with two parallel keels. Originally used by the natives of Polynesia, the catamaran design was adopted by Western boat builders in the 19th cent. Sea
Fighter (FSF-1)--the X-Craft. The vessel had undergone tests in a high
sea state in June of this year, accelerating to over 50 knots. MTU (1) (Maximum Transmission Unit, Maximum Transfer Unit) The largest frame size that can be transmitted over the network. For example, an Ethernet MTU is 1,500 bytes. Messages longer than the MTU must be divided into smaller frames. Detroit Diesel built and supplied the main drive components for the
X-Craft, including the engines, transmission and monitoring and control
system. Two MTU 16V 595 diesels and another pair of GE LM 2500 gas
turbines were integrated into a combined propulsion system (Combined
Diesel or Gas Combined diesel or gas (CODOG) is a type of propulsion system for ships that need a maximum speed that is considerably faster than their cruise speed, particularly warships like modern frigates or corvettes. turbine, Codog), an application that was a first for a US
Navy warship warship, any ship built or armed for naval combat. The forerunners of the modern warship were the men-of-war of the 18th and early 19th cent., such as the ship of the line, frigate, corvette, sloop of war (see sloop), brig, and cutter. . The X-Craft has a range of 4000 sea miles at 20 knots. MTU
has also supplied a high-speed fibre-optic ship automation system for
the vessel.
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