This phenomena could yield supersonic (in water!!!!) submarines.
Has anyone else heard of it.
The Kursk had supersonic torpedoes with 120Mt warheads!! This principle was also ustilised on aerospike vehicles.
What do you all think?
Has anyone else heard of it.
The Kursk had supersonic torpedoes with 120Mt warheads!! This principle was also ustilised on aerospike vehicles.
What do you all think?
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Re: SuperCavitation
Wed, March 31, 2004 - 9:55 PMI remember learning about this from Scientific American. The Russians put a lot of work into this research during the Cold War.
Here are some of their articles on the subject.
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Re: SuperCavitation
Thu, April 1, 2004 - 1:04 PMYup, the Russians seemed to have invested a lot in this field.
It is surely a better way to go for us to look at even supercavitating hydrofoils.
Whatever happened to aerospikes? Same principle.
I am waiting for evacuated tunnels 100m underground with trains running through them at Mach 3+ in evacuated tubes, propelled by linear induction motors.
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Re: SuperCavitation
Thu, April 1, 2004 - 6:55 PMSuper cavitation rocks (to use an over-used coloquialism)! As an H2O fanatic I love anything that has multitudes of applications in that medium (I happen to be a surfer/kayaker/free diver/scuba/etc proponent)
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