Could be a promising Super Ghost ship of the coastal zone?
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Prototype vessel Ghost (which means "ghost"), designed and built by Juliet Marine Systems, «spikes» Piscataqua River during one of the test "flights"

A small company from Portsmouth in New Hampshire Juliet Marine Systems has developed a unique high-speed vessel named Ghost (Ghost), which could perform tasks near the shoreline, where larger vessels, such as a warship of the coastal zone, will, as a rule, are too vulnerable , says the company. Despite the fact that the original Ghost project was proposed for fast patrol and special operations task forces to protect their company Juliet Marine is currently promoting an enlarged version of the corvette «super Ghost» to re-evaluate all of its United States Navy warships of the coastal zone.

There are plans to build a «super Ghost» corvette size with a length of 46 meters at a price of about $ 50 million per ship - six times cheaper than $ 300 million for each current amphibious warship classes of Freedom and Independence. Such a vessel would work together with the landing ship or other ocean-going marine vessels, providing more affordable, agile and survivable impact forces.


Development Ghost began in 2008 as a private project, the construction of the prototype was completed in early 2010, it was only spent $ 15 million. The cost of each vessel is estimated at approximately $ 10 million. In addition to the United States Navy and other interested government agencies and special forces company Juliet Marine at the highest level was discussing with one of the foreign countries acquire 25 vessels Ghost potentially worth $ 300 million.

The company said, "with the ship Ghost, you can sneak into forbidden ocean patrol areas and 30 days due to a stock of fuel on board. You can listen to conversations on cell phones, you can keep track of what's going on, you can start the operation, and then leave quietly and no one will know that you are there. This is not what the government can do right now. "



The main body of the vessel rises above the water when the Ghost is moving at a speed of more than eight nodes. Its power unit consists of two turboshaft engines T53-703, established in the floats, each of which rotates in the opposite direction of the propeller in front of each nacelle. Propellers create the effect of "supercavitation", allowing the gondola (all carrier ship) to move through the bubble trail, rather than through the denser seawater. Thus, this frictional force on the vessel body 900 smaller in comparison with traditional vessel.


The method allows the vessel supercavitation Ghost reach the speed of the Russian torpedo Flurry, which is four times faster than its Western counterparts

This phenomenon allows the vessel to "erupt" through waves of 3 meters at high speed, while maintaining good stability by harnessing computer-wire control. During the tests, Ghost ship has reached a speed of 30 knots and is expected to be able to reach a speed of 50 knots, equaling the maximum speed is much smaller speedboats. Fully computer control allows the vessel to become really invisible ship, which can perform various tasks? Uncounted and without people on board.




Supercavitation effect used when the vessel is Ghost, lets move through the water with the hydrodynamic resistance is 900 times smaller than the conventional vessel that not only transformed into a more stable movement with lower fuel consumption, but allows longer fighting at a higher speed.

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Bgm dg "Klewang" kita.?
Apakah sdh masuk katagori "Kacat Hantu"???
Kacat "Klewang" menggunakan technologi Supercavitasikah?
Terobosan technology pembuatan kapal yg bermanfaat di masa mendatang.