New boat in the arsenal

We were out on Mobile Bay doing shellfish surveys when she departed for her Builders Sea Trials, very impressive sight to see her going down the ship channel on her maiden voyage!

I believe she has jet drives.
 
Like in water jets? or Jet Engines ala the distroyer escorts that had a couple of jet engines on the fan tail for that little bit extra?

Water jets would be pretty cool but the amount of water needed to go that fast and be that manuverable boggles my mind.
 
Water jets.
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Propulsion: 2× gas turbines, 2× MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH 8000 Series diesel engines, 4× waterjets, retractable Azimuth thruster, 4× diesel generators
Propulsion: 2× gas turbines, 2× MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH 8000 Series diesel engines, 4× waterjets, retractable Azimuth thruster, 4× diesel generators.
 
Pete - yes I believe that boat does use water jets, almost certainly built by Kamewa (Rolls Royce). The largest waterjet we produce moves 12 cubic meters (or 3,000 gallons) of water thru each jet in one second and will absorb up to 7,000 hp! That boat looks like it is using six or even eight water jets.
 
Truely amazing. Having spent a couple years on an aircraft carrier and being able to see the manuverability issues with big ships I can appreciate what has to happen to get that boat to turn that sharp. Heck, the turning radius on an aircraft carrier is measured in miles, not feet.
 
Pete,

looks like a hell of a nice mother ship to use for a week of layout hunting on the big pond next year. Nice pick up. What week should we go?

45 knots....wow.
 
That 's a new LCS concept ship or Littoral (shallow water) combat ship. Not sure on the propulsion but I'm sure it was similar to the Pegasus class or the LCAC (landing craft) with large volume gas turbine engines linked with a water jet system. That's just cool.......GO NAVY!
 
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