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ArrowThe Russians were working on the MHD drive. Also Japan, which has a surface ship with this drive, Yamato 1. However, this drive is inefficient. You would need superconductors at normal temperatures. It's a long way. It is doubtful that China or the USA will be pioneers of new exotic drives for submarines.
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Sounds like an interesting idea Russia might follow on later.
Sounds like bullshit... using lasers to boil water so the sub runs underwater like some tea kettle?
How is super cavitating bubbles of boiling water supposed to be quiet... especially at a rate that would move several thousand tons of submarine...
When I was a kid my brother had a little tin boat with a coil pipe running in from the back and back out the back end. You put a fuel block under it and set it on fire and bubbles of steam came out the rear pushing it forward. The boat was super light weight and it was very noisy... the coil of tubing was under the water level so water kept flowing in and came rushing out as it boiled. It didn't ever go very fast...
Even if you ionised the water and could push it through the tube with a magnetic field I am not sure you could actually get it to move a volume of water at a speed high enough to propel a submarine that weighs over 1,000 tons.
Sounds like bollocks to me.
Edit: or maybe it is the west clutching at straws to look for technology that is several generations ahead of everything they are working on now because everything they are working on now doesn't work and is inferior to what the Russians and Chinese are working on.
Some super new made up technology that will beat everything without proof or evidence in the hope that the Russians and Chinese waste time and money testing it themselves too...
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The scrapping of Kirov class PR.1144 Adm Lazarev is nearly complete.
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I would have preferred a nice picture of the Nakhimov running sea trails. 
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This pic is the same telling.
No more ships sinking at pier, and rusting after for years.
No more ships sinking at pier, and rusting after for years.
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With the money for those parts you can build a lot of Karakurts. 
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The patrol ship "Viktor the Great" (Pr. 22160) and the small missile ship "Typhoon" (Pr. 22800) were launched
https://bmpd.livejournal.com/4822890.html
https://bmpd.livejournal.com/4822890.html
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It means they no longer have to spend money maintaining it and it frees up a very big floating dock for other purposes...
Sad to see her go, but they need to move forward.
Sad to see her go, but they need to move forward.
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Hole wrote:With the money for those parts you can build a lot of Karakurts.
The Nakhimov can tow them all to Cuba for a nice holiday in the Caribbean - after the SMO.
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