Way to go Navy! New Ship tops 50.

gafinfan · Oct 22, 2009

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091022/ap_on_bi_ge/us_speedy_warship

Independence, a 418-foot warship built in Alabama, boasts a top speed in excess of 45 knots, or about 52 mph, and sustained 44 knots for four hours during builder trials that wrapped up this month off the Gulf Coast. The 378-foot Freedom, a ship built in Wisconsin by a competing defense contractor, has put up similar numbers.
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Loren Thompson, a defense analyst at the Lexington Institute, noted that Independence sustained 44 knots despite a 30-knot headwind and 6- to 8-foot seas in Alabama's Mobile Bay. "For a ship of this size, it's simply unheard of to sustain that rate of speed for four hours," he said.
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This is great, finally we have something besides Nuke subs that can keep up with and surpass our Nuke Carriers!

Zach13 · Oct 22, 2009

That is amazing.

Thanks for the article

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