{"id":199324,"date":"2007-08-13T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/13\/supercavitating-special-forces-transport\/"},"modified":"2007-08-13T05:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T10:25:00","slug":"supercavitating-special-forces-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/13\/supercavitating-special-forces-transport\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercavitating Special Forces Transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Ad32221a4-0ddb-4d40-a8da-107367de3689\">Special forces command has got DARPA looking at very high speed insertion of special forces personnel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By fast, we mean more than 100 knots, using a supercavitating technology.<\/p>\n<p>I see two problems:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>This would necessarily be <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">VERY <\/span>noisy.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>&#8220;Center Punching a Whale at 100 kts&#8221; as the author of this post put it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Actually, at those speeds, I&#8217;d be worried about a halibut. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img442.imageshack.us\/img442\/7524\/3f8dafb8d0b54c0d9b324b3gr6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Special forces command has got DARPA looking at very high speed insertion of special forces personnel. By fast, we mean more than 100 knots, using a supercavitating technology. I see two problems: This would necessarily be VERY noisy. &#8220;Center Punching a Whale at 100 kts&#8221; as the author of this post put &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}