Seventy times quieter than the first Los Angeles-class boats and ten times quieter than the improved ones” that’s how the ...

The U.S. Navy uses pump-jet propulsor technology onboard its Improved Los Angeles, Seawolf and Virginia-class attack submarines. The U.S. Navy is also planning to use a pumpjet propulsor onboard ...

The US Navy uses pump-jet propulsor technology on its Improved Los Angeles, Seawolf and Virginia-class attack submarines. The U.S. Navy is also planning to use a pumpjet propulsor onboard its ...

The U.S. Navy uses pump-jet propulsor technology onboard its Improved Los Angeles, Seawolf and Virginia-class attack submarines. The U.S. Navy is also planning to use a pumpjet propulsor onboard ...

Here are the USS Virginia's engines, which powers a pump-jet propulsor rather than a conventional propeller US Navy / Wikimedia Commons ...

Seawolf-class submarines have a submerged displacement of 9,137 tons (12,139 tons for USS Jimmy Carter, which is a specialized variant of the Seawolf-class), and a length of approximately 353 feet ...

This paper proposes a new magnetic flux-modulated permanent magnet (PM) machine (FPMM) for the shaftless pump-jet propulsor of the full electric ship system. The proposed FPMM embeds a reverse coaxial ...

That will come in the form of the Columbia-class nuclear submarines. With a planned fleet made up of 12 units, the newcomers are already in the making, with the one wearing the class’ name, USS ...

US Naval Sea Systems Command on 11 June awarded BAE Systems Land & Armaments an $18.81 million contract modification to manufacture and deliver more pump jet propulsor components and fixed assemblies ...

Now pump-jet propulsion can be found in some of the most powerful submarines in the world, including the Seawolf, Virginia and Columbia classes in the US and in France’s Triomphant class.

Knyaz Vladimir uses a pump-jet propulsor like the latest U.S. Navy Virginia Class boats and this may be contributing to the unusual wake.