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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Electric warship propulsion
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Date: 20 Dec 90 01:47:56 GMT
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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
>Electric propulsion has been around before.  The reason the Navy
>is interested is because of some new ways to generate and convey
>electricity (superconducting) and batlle-group-wide systems engineering
>ones.


Has everyone forgotten that practically all 
diesel submarines run off electric motors
and accumulators? And nuclear submarines might 
too, for all I know?

 
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