US Submarine First In World Fitted With Silent Caterpillar Drive

American submarines will further extend their advantage in the undersea domain. In the first of a kind, the U.S. Navy has fitted a new form of propulsion, magnetohydrodynamic drive (MHD), to a Virginia class submarine. This promises to make the submarine virtually undetectable, the holy grail of naval warfare.

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[thebrain]

"Ryan...be careful at what you shot at....things in here don't react well with bullets"

>Captain Ramius

[BSRED]

This was taken from an article released on April 1st.

[lelandtsnyder]

Except that it produces a huge magnet field. And.... It is a huge piece of metal.

[kctyphoon]

We can thank Russia's Red October for this one. Only took us like 35 years.

[tfrankwang]

Isn't this a April Fools' Day joke?

[GSP-]

While this may be a joke, the caterpillar drive sub is not science fiction...i think it wasn't utilized because its not silent which is very important for a submarine.

[edkrach]

An excellent book. Tom Clancy wrote a masterpiece, along with many of his other books.

[Condor]

Us Naval News reported this 2 days ago on April 1st. 😂

[jasonconrad]

Rumor has it that Jackov Ryansky has already boarded the Russian Sub Dallasky.

[oogiev]

Yep a YouTube video announces well beyond Top Secret US Navy propulsion systems on April Fools day!!!! 😂😱😱😂

[bryandickinson]

Sounds like something right out of a Tom Clancy novel! Don't tell me 'The Hunt for Red October' was on Netflix again? Good movie but more fiction than reality - then and now.

[Georgejoseph]

Tom Clancy wrote about ye same stuff in his ‘The Red October’