What I find most amazing is that this only cost $22M to make. I can imagine the cost if you the navy had commissioned a project similar to that.

@handroids1981

9 ай бұрын

22 billion initially ... Expanding to 76 billion then getting cancelled.

@tedhardulak7698

9 ай бұрын

Yes, and they did it with their own funds. I hope another country wants it and they can many of them. I get so sick of hearing how Military projects start out costing in the Millions and then the "COST OVERRUNS" start and the word BILLIONS enters in. Somehow this shit has to stop.

@best5345

9 ай бұрын

Each county in the entire union would have had a small piece to manufacture, exponentializing the costs.

@AnimilesYT

9 ай бұрын

It clearly shows the difference between passion/ambition and corporate greed. Large companies care about making more money to please investors so they can make even more money. Startups generally have people working with a passion for what they're doing and a will to deliver something amazing

@armageddonready4071

9 ай бұрын

It doesn’t help that politicians give contracts to THEMSELVES and their MIC friends. The boat has one major flaw, fortunately they don’t mention it.

Wow this is so cool, I'm a US Navy submariner and I remember seeing this exact vessel on "Display" between 2016 - 2018 at PNSY where I was stationed. We always walked past it and made jokes that Batman joined the Navy

@RCboyzTV

9 ай бұрын

Its now on display at the USS Albacore Park in Portsmouth

@PANNARALEJ

9 ай бұрын

You aren't all that wrong.

@user-McGiver

9 ай бұрын

he did!... and guess what! the Joker(s) got him ! what a shame!

@johno1544

9 ай бұрын

Private rich guy made it so not that far off. Kind of wish tried something for the army we might have got a batmobile

@user-McGiver

9 ай бұрын

@@johno1544 he had some good ideas... good enough to scare the brass... but guess what!... so many videos about it... somewhere other ppl building it already [I bet!]

This seems straight out of James Bond! That shape reminds me of the stealth ship from Tomorrow Never Dies!

@Megozelenka

9 ай бұрын

Because it was filmed there

@aliasunknown7476

9 ай бұрын

it is the stealth ship

@gmamah9559

9 ай бұрын

Or Waterworld

@LENZ5369

9 ай бұрын

Sea Shadow (IX-529) built in the 80s.

@jblob5764

9 ай бұрын

This is not the same ship but that was a real ship in james bond. this one does seem to have taken a lot of design inspiration from it.

it's really sad to see such a masterpiece of technology being just there on land only to be displayed

@ruslan_yefimov

9 ай бұрын

@@FAKE-NAME They are not obliged to do so

@trying3841

9 ай бұрын

Wasn’t this in a James Bond movie? Lol

@JacobButthole-nx1pd

9 ай бұрын

Bunch of wankers wanted him sign over his technology just so they could go to the established military contractors and let them get the profit. I personally guaranty the established contractors got access to everything and have already incorporated anything into their own tech on the back end.

@pihermoso11

9 ай бұрын

Lockheed Sea Shadow inspired this ship, Lockheed completed their stealth design ship way back in 1984, then it inspired the stealth catamaran in the James Bond film

@knpark2025

9 ай бұрын

I personally like designs like these testing the limits of human ingenuity, but it is sad to admit that deep down I also know such explorative designs are - as a pragmatic tool - either too early for their times or simple dead-ends. When its potential zone of operation listed Korea and it was considered to be exported here, I had to disappoint myself and admit that the Ghost is decades ahead of its time, if such time exists at all. This part of the ocean is so infested with fishing nets and underwater debris, that opportunistic bycatch is more than enough to meet the Korean domestic demand for whale and shark meat without any illegal poaching. Its design meant to work best in littoral waters is what makes it inappropriate for coastal waters in Asia, and since the coastal waters of Asia is where it will be needed the most in the near future, it is a sad irony. Make no mistake, if my country grabs several of those for special operations and name them mulgwishins (literally water ghosts) I will consider they have "won" a defense budget well spent.

A classic case of “it’s good, but we don’t want it and nobody else is allowed to have it either”.

@jbodden6977

9 ай бұрын

more like, if you won't let us STEAL it, then we will lock it up...

This feels like a thunderbirds base of operations! In a good way. An impressive feat of engineering.

@Duke00x

9 ай бұрын

Look up the sea shadow. It is a full size experimental stealth ship built by Lockheed for the US Navy in the early 80's. This is just a smaller version of it. The sea shadow was in the Pierce Brosnan James Bond movie "Tomorrow Never Dies" in the 90's. This is just a smaller fast attack version of it.

@harlyquin

9 ай бұрын

ikr, i was thinking its like a vehicle from the G.I.Joe franchise

@User-rka_zykx76

9 ай бұрын

It is so freaking pointless. Dude is about to become a billionaire because he designed a fancy military yacht

@harleyme3163

9 ай бұрын

yep... 150 years ago... they discovered hydroplanes... theres one in the alexander graham bell museum its humungous though not like ppl have been claiming innovation yet its very very old technology.....like hydrogen as a fuel... except the pumped it into the engine because they knew the fuel "cell" it just a battery... dirrect loss system lol

As engineers, stories like this are so disheartening. We develop something great, only to have it stolen, or squashed by the government.

@orderlyhippo1569

9 ай бұрын

Hopefully it’s useful some day. I wonder how they will fix the Juliet weakness

@DS-lt7fw

9 ай бұрын

​@@orderlyhippo1569 yeah some day when the patents expire and some other company steals the idea.

@DanielFrost79

9 ай бұрын

Better words has never been said. The problem is that to make stuff like this available to the public they need to release it open source. That is something that's never gonna happen because the number one thing that everyone is driven by is Greed/Wealth.

@shrapnelface5978

9 ай бұрын

If the guy was in the friends list of the elites the company would have gotten funded bigly, most likely with some laundering kickbacks.

@DS-lt7fw

9 ай бұрын

@@DanielFrost79 inventors have bills to pay just like everyone else. How do you expect them to survive if they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars developing something then give it away?

Fascinating… These days when there are so many standards of design it is rare to see this kind of creativity and ingenuity. Sad they didn’t want to buy this and then screwed over the company so other people couldn’t use it. They knew it was good.

@sproctor1958

9 ай бұрын

And... they probably already have small fleets of drone ships built on these concepts deployed in secret. Wouldn't be the first time the -Mil. Ind. Com.- conducted industrial... uh... shenanigans.

@Duke00x

9 ай бұрын

Look up "Sea Shadow" it is an experimental stealth ship made by Lockheed back in the 80's and later in the Pierce Brosnan Jamse Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies" in the 90's.

@diollinebranderson6553

9 ай бұрын

Yea like wtf? If they don't think it'd be useful, why do they prevent them from selling to other countries?

@Aabergm

9 ай бұрын

@@diollinebranderson6553 Because they recognised how good the idea was and they didn't want others to have it but were not willing to use it themselves. Standard "If I can't have it no one can" mentality.

@TheLastArbiter

9 ай бұрын

@@diollinebranderson6553 so no one could use it against them

cant imagine how they can come up with this stuff. truly amazing

@scammmmy

9 ай бұрын

probably with the aid of lots of whiskey in drunk board room meetings lol

@BRCRODRIGO

9 ай бұрын

Same concept of Caspian Sea Monster from USSR.

@TAXCOLLECTOR19

9 ай бұрын

@@scammmmy real

@dianapennepacker6854

9 ай бұрын

I thought nothing special at first. Thought it was stupid at first honestly with the design of the hull. Like a ship that has part of it underwater? With all that drag? Then they talked about the forward propellers and design. How the hell hasn't that been thought of before? Honestly though what is it great at that other designs cannot do? It isn't a blue water ship which is the biggest issue. I am pretty sure hydrofoils are still faster and more efficient. I think if it could be a blue water ship then it would be used. Stability is not enough. I would like to see more ships use a forward propeller design or read about it. Edit: Using cavitation is genius honestly and I bet that is where the Navy was most interesting. So it is stable, and relatively quick. Also I hope the company can sue. I won't get into it, but I think it is bull that the government did what they did. That is the type of company we should be supporting quite honestly. Sick of companies getting stricken down since they aren't a major weapon manufacturer who drops billions on lobbying.

@Duke00x

9 ай бұрын

Lockheed built a fully size one of these for the US navy back in the 80's (completed in 84) it was a ln experimental stealth ship called the Sea Shadow. It was later in the Pierce Brosnan Jamse Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies" in the 90's. This is just a smaller fast attack version of that ship.

I attended a symposium about 10-12 years ago about maritime combat operations in the future. All the “experts” there seemed to agree that the bulk of maritime combat would take place in littoral zones. I forgot the exact number but something like 95% of the world’s population lives within a couple miles of a major body of water so, this type of craft makes sense. However, the experts there said that traditional props were almost not an option and jet drives were the word of the day. IMO, jet drives have a similar level of vulnerability, just different. Cavitation and debris are still huge issues just in different ways. Especially with assault crafts, landing on a shoreline or beach is still tricky. Part of our SOP for insert/extract on a beach was to reverse the jet drives themselves(not reversing the boat with buckets) to remove obstructions from the intakes. That said, I think the Ukrainians are showing the “experts” how it’s really going to go down- a sea of unmanned kamikaze drone ships that were built using off the shelf parts from Amazon or alibaba. A $500 bundle of stuff ordered online has taken out bridges and billions of dollars of high tech warships.

@BosonCollider

9 ай бұрын

Right, which requires a new class of small (manned or unmanned) patrol ship to defend your large warships against drones ships. Imho I think that hydrofoils make more sense than this design for a dronekiller though, especially if the dronekiller is also unmanned

@ronblack7870

9 ай бұрын

those drone boats ukraine uses cost way more than 500 bucks. i remember they were crowdfunding them about a year ago and needed 250k per boat. hopefully much less now but who knows.

@hillbilly4895

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, neutralizing the $10M Ghost with a load of used fishing nets kind of settles it. But, as a QRF taxi between islands might make sense. What does reversing with buckets mean?

@TunnelSnakesrule13

9 ай бұрын

I'm more excited about the applications of drone technology in domestic applications. Imagine a $500 drone entering the waiting area of an American police station and spraying everyone with silly putty before wam doodling.

@pihermoso11

9 ай бұрын

@@hillbilly4895 the bucket reversing tech is used in pump jet technology, where they can lower a bucket in the exhaust of the thrust holes and that puts the ship into a stop and eventually into reverse if the pumps are pumping, some coast guard patrol boats have this tech

Well, when you remember that the inventor of the jet engine, an English man, wasn't supported by his government, that as early as 1937 they had a working jet-propelled aircraft but stopped research, and that all his work was given to the motors manufacturers like Rolls Royce because of the war effort, being an inventor in strategic sectors is a hard life.

Engineers are so under appreciated. Thanks to all of you

This is the most Sci-fi looking boat i've ever seen! wonder if this type of hull can manage rough seas with 3 ~ 6 meter (20 feet) waves

@Duke00x

9 ай бұрын

Look up the "Sea Shadow". It was a full size experimental stealth shit biult by Lockheed for the US navy back in the early 80's l(completed in 84).

@johntheherbalistg8756

9 ай бұрын

It probably wouldn't sink in this waves, but it wouldn't sit straight, either

@rtnman

9 ай бұрын

In the video he said it could only handle waves up to 10 feet high

@kadoj

9 ай бұрын

@@Duke00xlollllll “stealth shit…” awesome. I know what you meant to write, but I think I prefer your new version XDD sometimes you just gotta love the random typos that occasionally crop up…

Personal opinion: Make them even smaller, cheaper, and unmanned/slaved to the destroyers. Then you've got yourself a winner. Manpower is expensive, and if you don't *need* to have these deployed actively at all times, then you also don't need to worry as much about range. All it needs to carry is sensors and a light load of munitions. Enough to disable 1 - 3 threats. Deploy as needed, in larger or few numbers, replace easily.

@onetonpun

8 ай бұрын

I read in a splinter cell book from 2005 a vessel similar to this but the cockpit was little bigger than a jet ski. In the book it was called a chark, but this is the first I've seen anything like it.

@Beejayytechloverr

8 ай бұрын

Very good opinion 👍👍👍

I noticed a thumbnail before noticed the channel, I’m so glad it’s not click bait! This channel is awesome! This channel & Dark5, knows the topic, keeps us entertained and learning something new that pretty much is not what you think that you thought you knew about something you have thought about, and assumed!

I remember this boat is was one of the best ships in Sharkbite

@dsfdsfdsf1234

9 ай бұрын

LMAO

Britain has their own submersible small boat as well. I’ve seen the prototype in testing It’s called the Subsea Craft VICTA for anyone wondering

US Navy Sea Shadow was built in 1984, no secret. There are active suspension catamarans that can ride smooth in rough water, or the passive approach where the pontoons are flexible air inflated sectional.

I remember seeing photos of this thing circulating years ago. I wanted to use it in a sci-fi story I was writing at the time. 😅

A design like this seems like it could find a place among the coast guard.

@TomO-nx1bd

8 ай бұрын

Probably overkill for the coast guard's needs. They could buy five 45-foot Medium response boats for the price of one of these.

Looks like something from a videogame. Can't wait to see this in Just Cause 5

Being that this craft was built by a company outside of the Military Industrial Complex it was dead on arrival. Our government loves its mega conglomerates that employ retired Admirals and Generals.

@Duke00x

9 ай бұрын

It is a small fast attack version of the Sea Shadow built by Lockheed back in the early 80's (completed in 84).

@erroneous6947

9 ай бұрын

That’s it in a nutshell. No contract because no generals were offered ceo positions. Typical military grift. That’s how we end up with 400$ toilet seats.

@Mia-rk9en

9 ай бұрын

This is a SWATH military patrol ship and the rest of the video is just hype, nothing "secret" in this technology, which is applied to civil and military ships for over 50 years now... The first ship made in this configuration was Duplus, in 1969, an oil industry support ship.

My therapist: The amphibious Star Trek shuttlecraft isn’t real. It can’t hurt you. The amphibious Star Trek shuttlecraft:

I like the moderators tone of voice. It straight forward with no sarcastic inflections. Great job.

I lived in Portsmouth, NH when this ship was in limbo. It sat in a vacant lot next to the highway for years. Sad to see but really cool to look at driving over the Route 95 bridge in between Kittery and Portsmouth.

@liamspurling1570

9 ай бұрын

Always felt so wrong to see it rotting next to the salt piles before moving it next the Albacore. Idk why they didn’t put it at the park next to the sound basin on badgers island

@drewcarter4310

9 ай бұрын

I also live in NH. I've seen this at the Albacore museum recently, and there was a guy who worked there that used to be a navy submarine cook. He described a lot of the history to that boat (which has a fence around it now, idk why they used the outdated video), so I already knew a lot of the stuff here.

It looks like a James Bond kinda boat

@Duke00x

9 ай бұрын

Sea Shadow. Biult by Lockheed in the early 80's (completed in 84). It later was used in the Pierce Brosnan Jamse Bond movie "Tomorrow Never Dies" in the 90's.

One of the coolest things I’ve ever heard of!

I don't know why but, the Ghost do be giving me some Roblox Sharkbite vibes

@No-one-you-know837

9 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing👍

@Ishouldbemorecompetent101

9 ай бұрын

Me too

@DooHicky_

9 ай бұрын

I thought that was fake😆

@Dragon8uk1

9 ай бұрын

OOHHHHH so thats why i recognised the ghost

@leightonkekuewa4066

9 ай бұрын

Big mystery the Ghost and the Stealth Ship for shark bite totally don’t have any similarities but they just feel similar idk why

The sad truth is doing business with the DOD is like doing business with the devil.

@JM-lk6wo

9 ай бұрын

UNLESS you are one of the well-connected members of the MIC. If you are, then you have near carte blanc.

@THOR_THE_GOD

9 ай бұрын

We don't get weapons contracts, we don't get cheap labor, we are cheap labor. -Immortal Technique

thats the boat from sharkbite

Error: The narrator said that the Ghost has a "Supercavitation Hull". This is wrong. The Ghost uses "cavitation bubbles" to reduce water resistance accross the SWATH hull. That's called "bubble lubrication". Supercavitation hulls are something totally different and are still very much in the experimental and testing phase. The Ghost was a sea vessel that advanced a lot of theories about propulsion and stability. It's a fantastic ship built by a visionary engineer and designer.

A viable and cheap option is to go for a catamaran fast attack craft equipped with dual purpose 35 mm CIWS that can provide anti-surface and anti-air capability against fast boats and aerial threats.

Spent a lot of time underway on GHOST. An interesting craft...to say the least.

I applied for a job with them, had an interview 2013. At the time it was on sea trial pre dawn. I didn't get the job because I had no experience in the military. Looking back now, I am glad I didnt get the job.

So this is where Sharkbite devs got the inspiration from

I remember seeing a show on TV about these ships, most were science vessels because they remained level in bad weather . They showed a regular hull getting beat up in the distance beside one of these ships and they had a glass of water on a table and it barely titled. Thank you

i didnt know this was a real boat😳

@The_plant789

9 ай бұрын

Did you think it was from shark bite

@Kaboom--ix2xu

9 ай бұрын

@@The_plant789maybe

@rip_frost7888

9 ай бұрын

@@The_plant789 lmfao yeah

@edwardsmoth6861

9 ай бұрын

Yeah me too I saw this on a roblox game and thought there was no way this boat was real

Sea Shadow. Biuld by Lockheed in the early 80's (completed in 84). It was an experimental stealth ship. It looked just like this. But was a full size ship. It had a staring roll in the Pierce Brosnan Jamse Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies" in the 90's as the bad guy ship in the end of the movie.

@handroids1981

9 ай бұрын

Who uses a sapply result as a profile pic? LOL! Why would you be so proud of this?? "Look everyone, I have opinions on politics. I'm special!"

No way, I accidentally found this museum while visiting the US and was trying to find videos on it. Glad somebody is paying attention to it.

I've never heard of this boat. Amazing piece of engineering

I've been designing something similar for the past few year's. I hope I don't run into the same problems. My design uses the Swath 3 design, has a heli deck and able to dive down to 130'. My design is not military based. But oceanic research. It's still government funded. My design is based on stability not speed. I'm looking at max speed to be around 28 mph (24 knots). It's what the craft does and what the second part is that makes the whole thing nice. I figured the full size will cost around 60 million dollars and has the ability to have a revenue of around 500 million per year. It can carry up to 22 scientists/ customers.

This boat is sitting on a dock in Portsmouth, NH and has been there for years. Clearly visible from the road next to the dock.

@bretsk2500

9 ай бұрын

To be fair, Ghost did sit on a dock on the other side of Market St for years. It got moved to Albacore Park within the last year.

Cool boat. Was just at the albacore museum with my son a few months ago and saw it in display. Very futuristic looking ship.

"Not what you think" Literally what I thinked

Around the early 1960's, the secrecy act was also applied against the inventor of the laser. I can understand the defense department wanting to restrict such developments from being snapped up by adversaries. But I don't understand why they don't at least provide just compensation, and then fund a small scale research effort to evaluate its potential. In the realm of defense and 'black' budgets, a few million$ as compensation for secrecy would. not even amount to 'chump change'.

@Mia-rk9en

9 ай бұрын

The video mentions he was offered 25 millions by DARPA - and didn't take it - so there you have your compensation

Sounds very American to not take what obviously would be a big advantage for them and disregard and not take the opportunity to buy and use this technology to their advantage BUT they also don't want any other countries to get their hands on it either. Makes ya wonder what it is their doing

@Mia-rk9en

9 ай бұрын

This is a SWATH military patrol ship and the rest of the video is just hype, nothing "secret" in this technology, which is applied to civil and military ships for over 50 years now... The first ship made in this configuration was Duplus, in 1969, an oil industry support ship.

I drive past the one in Portsmouth almost every day! Great to see some more info on it!

Why is nobody talking about how unfair is it for the government to have the right to ban any technology or knowledge from being used for "national security" issues

Yo it’s the sharkbite boat!!1!!1

Seriously, as many have already mentioned, you cannot talk about this ship without mentioning the Lockheed Sea Shadow. This guy was looking for a payday using a concept that had already been rejected by the Navy.

gotta love the Ghost, especially when you always drove past it

This reminds me of the IX-529 Sea Shadow that a bunch of engineers working on the F117 Nighthawk made as a concept stealth boat.

Impressive. Interesting design

@Mia-rk9en

9 ай бұрын

This is a SWATH military patrol ship and the rest of the video is just hype, nothing "secret" in this technology, which is applied to civil and military ships for over 50 years now... The first ship made in this configuration was Duplus, in 1969, an oil industry support ship.

I'm wondering if the limited range of the craft is really much of a factor, since the purpose of the craft is to provide protection for the fleet, and the craft will fit inside the well deck of a larger ship within the fleet. Also, the addition (or, more likely, the substitution) of a more efficient power source could reduce the volume of the overall system. All of the spaces used for fuel can be used in other ways.

@jbodden6977

9 ай бұрын

this is the same logic that prohibits airplanes smaller than a 747... and aircraft carriers because 747's can't land on them

@brucealanwilson4121

7 ай бұрын

​@@jbodden6977AWAC is a modified 747 and they operate off carriers all the time.

i pass by this boat frequently!! Its so cool

The big defense companies hate competition.

I think they should be incorporated into carrier groups. Just build a big ship to carry and deploy them when needed or, more like what the US would do, alter something we're already using to do it. If smaller boats have such tactical advantages, then why not take a bunch of smaller boats out with you. At the very least, a ship spitting out a bunch of those would be intimidating, and at best, they can neutralize the smaller boats that might be attempting to hit our ships in coastal waters

@fidjeenjanrjsnsfh

9 ай бұрын

Or you can add a stern deck 5in on Flight-3 Burkes so you can also shoot down ballistic missiles in addition to whatever the SWATH can do..

I am so, so tired of the US government.

@joythought

9 ай бұрын

The military is overseen by a civilian budget control wing but otherwise isn't "the government". Decisions are obtuse. I have tried doing business with the Pentagon and have had the navy as a client. There is no reforming the madness.

@DeltaEntropy

9 ай бұрын

Because they didn’t buy a boat?

@dansands8140

8 ай бұрын

@@DeltaEntropy Because they crushed someone's company and life savings out of existence just because they weren't sure if they wanted it.

The longer version of the ghost mentioned in this video would be a perfect base to design a dedicated CWIS point defense class around. Stable, fast, manuverable, hard to target.

Saw this thing when I visited New Hampshire last year. Had no idea what it was at the time, other than that it was privately owned and experimental.

at first I thought this boat almost looked like from Star Trek 😀

The US Navy has a gaping strategic hole in their battle order, and large hull naval ships may soon become a thing of the past. With better and faster anti ship missiles and torpedos large easier to target ships ships days are numbered in any open conflict. Smaller more numerous PT and torpedo boats are key and the US Navy hates them just as the US Air Force hates helicopters. Sure you would would probably need to deliver these smaller ships around the world in an actually conflict and they wouldn't be able to arrive in an area to exert military pressure during peace time. But the US Navy seems to have a lack or preparedness to be able to whip up hundred if these kinds of ships in case of outbreak to war. The US Navy is the most expensive of the military branches and will suffer the most catastrophic losses at the outbreak of the next war, and they are happy to wastes billions on faulty big ships that won't even last until then.

@ashleygoggs5679

9 ай бұрын

You would need both types of ships. Large vessels will never be obsolete the same reason why tanks still arnt obsolete. Yes there are easier ways to counter such vessels however you need combined forces to make a real dent into your opponent, having many different specialist equipment for specific jobs. Smaller boats cannot go as far out in blue waters while bigger ones can. Bigger ships can also house huge equipment that the smaller boats cant. For example if hypersonics become a thing for the west there will be no way you would fit one on a small ship and if you could it would only be one missile, this is why the Russian Moskva Class ships were so huge. If the US decided to invest and purchase such boats as in the video they could use them as attack, reconnasance or missile defense boats and have them in a larger circle radius around a carrier group. A specific Attack boat carrier could probably be invented to aid carrier strike groups and deploy these ships, with them being small they could also potentially be unmanned aswell. There is so much potential, the US dropped the ball on this boat.

@johntheherbalistg8756

9 ай бұрын

The bigger boats are for supporting carriers. We can't do without them. I honestly think putting a bunch of ghosts in carrier groups would be smart for coastal work

@Damorann

9 ай бұрын

The "Jeune École" of the late 19th century thought the same. Yet here we are. Revolutions in our world are rare. Most of the time it's slow and gradual adaptation.

@LeonardTavast

9 ай бұрын

I doubt big ships are obsolete but the US should adapt to the Chinese doctrine of zergling rush (small ships in large numbers supported by cruise missiles) somehow.

@o1non

9 ай бұрын

​@@LeonardTavastcould turn one of those helicopter carriers into a ghost carrier, and during war put HIMAR systems on deck of the carriers.

1960's technology put to new use. The Americans Milatary and other's had boats / Hydrafoils .there are rare examples a few still opreratable. Very fast and versatile for the times. Keep up the good work.

Agreed, drinking a cup of coffee while making War is a Great Sales pitch

IS THAT THE SHARKBITE BOAT!!!!???? 😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲

@PCrailfan3790

9 ай бұрын

I was looking to see if anyone else saw that

Which country you are watching the video

@mikewazowski6161

9 ай бұрын

From uranus...

@melt2733

9 ай бұрын

Micronesia

"fly under water, through air" and does not need energy nor crew. BRILLIANT

"It's not what you think"? It's literally EXACTLY what I thought.

Why don't torpedoes have propellor in the front?

@lIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlI1

9 ай бұрын

@@retiredbore378I mean it could would because the kinetic energy or some other sensors would detonate the explosives

@UCmDBecUtbSafffpMEN3iscA

9 ай бұрын

@@lIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlI1 now that made me curious, got any example?

👋🏿Hi from Philippines

@Scod146

9 ай бұрын

Same

I lovee that the inventor was motivated by the tragedy to spend his own money to find a solution

Huh I stopped at Albacore Park the other day and was wondering what the story with this thing was. Pretty neat that you came out with a video on it around a month later.

This ship looks good, but it seems like an over-thought boat, we would have to see how it fares in combat and pray that doesn't become another ultra expensive toy

@granatmof

9 ай бұрын

Modern anti ship missiles may prove to be super effective against larger hulled ships. Smaller ships may be the future of Naval Warfare if for no other reason than to diminish the losses from a singular ship. The loss of personelle, equipment, and prestige by the sinking if a Supercarrier for example would wreck the American morale and strategic advantage.

just imagine the amount of failure points those articulated legs are going to have and the logistics needed to bring a significant amount of these boats out into the sea. Of course the navy was not going to buy that white elephant.

@clausroquefort9545

9 ай бұрын

@@retiredbore378 they are probably going to build a more conventional boat for the purpose that would have fewer toothing issues, but keep this design in mind if they end up needing it

@richardelliott8352

9 ай бұрын

my thinking exactly. Super tankers have elevators to the bridge, but never run them because they are so difficult to maintain at sea. I can just imagine how a hydraulic ram failure under fire would work out.

@clausroquefort9545

9 ай бұрын

I also think that those boats are better at fighting AGAINST a superior force and not so great at defending it. they would be effictive in hostile hands but not the best choice to use for yourself.

Where is the video game controller that runs the whole thing?

Brilliant propeller design.................using the bubbles generated by the props being placed in front of both the subs to dramatically reduce drag..........................I immediately thought how this concept could be applied to ftl travel....................TY "Not What You Think"..................Michael;)

A little too late? With AI powered surface sea drones that's 1/20 of the cost (if that), zero possible life loss, 24/7 perimeter defense Above/Surface AND - below , non stop refueling capacity from the mothership and most importantly, it never needs coffee! Re-market it for civilian police use.

@Starjumper2821

9 ай бұрын

Blame politics. The navy wanted to take over the patent and give production to a manufacturer that would satisfy some senators. The inventor refused to lose control over his product. The navy immediately retaliated by blocking export to other interested nations.

where can i buy this? im planning to kill some sharks with it

US Navy: "I don't want it but I don't want anyone else having it neither"

Frontal props have been considered for hundreat years+ and considered a bad idea since then. First, a pulling allow teh gap between hull and propller to open forcefully, making sealing a horror. Then it creates instability to the vessel, and the water displacement creates a counterforce while pushing against the hull. The thing with cavitation is not new also, and made on supercavitation torpedos, f.e. Still this isen't SC, but some smaller kind of the same idea. The problems with this is that cavitation is the one thing propellers try to avoid like cancer - because for props, it IS cancer. Cavitation are in fact a bazillion little detonations on yor blade, wearing it down in no time. While i can't see how underwarter gas turbines should lower noise levels (water is the best sound medium around), cavitation effects are are headshot for silence anyway. Not that this type of sound detection would be much of a thing for such boats, but anyway - its just a weird arguement imho.

As far as I know: they said they will help develop it into a potentially useful ship; in exchange for exclusive use of the designs and tech (not uncommon with military tech) -he said no because he wanted to also sell to foreign militaries and civilians. He had patents and demonstrator but he didn't have a viable product, he needed alot more money and help -all the gov did was bar him from getting that money/help from foreign countries but when he asked to discuss working with allied countries; they let him....seems pretty reasonable tbf and pretty far from sensationalized conspiracies.

@granatmof

9 ай бұрын

The pessimist in me though recognizes the product as a potential upset to existing American ship designers with whom the Navy has invested billions and only received crappy ships that fall apart at operating speeds. On the one hand sure they're wary of more boondoggles and egg on their face, on the other it's protectionism. South Korea protects south Korean businesses, so probably wouldn't take this up, and anyone else wouldn't be interested or able to foot the bill. There's actually quite a few small ship designs popping up around the world for coastal protection and interdiction. The US Coast guard has their new jet engines which make their ships act like giant jetskis or Vietnam Era PT boats. Honestly I could see this ship being useful for certain duties of the US coast Guard more than the US Navy especially intersecting smugglers.

@richardelliott8352

9 ай бұрын

reasonable thinking is hard to find on the internet. just check some of the other replies, they make me more appreciative of yours.

@Mia-rk9en

9 ай бұрын

Indeed @@richardelliott8352

Completely mind-blowing! Innovation knows no bounds.

A Revolutionary product from a Genious‼️👏👏☮️

No way, they got da stealth submarine from Sharkbite (Rip Sharkbite 1)

Absolutely tragic. I hate our military-industrial complex so much. They told him to sell the rights or they'll make it classified so he can never succeed. As an inventor, I'm utterly disgusted by how our government "fights for freedom" yet all this man wanted was the freedom to own and sell what he spent his life on.

@LENZ5369

9 ай бұрын

No, they said they will help develop it into a potentially useful ship; in exchange for exclusive use of the designs and tech -he said no because he wanted to also sell to foreign militaries. He had patents and demonstrator but he didn't have a viable product, he needed alot more money and help -all the gov did was bar him from getting that money/help from foreign countries.

@wasabij

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, every one of those dollars have contracts that say exactly why he can't sell it all off.

@crhu319

10 күн бұрын

Weapons arent property.

Why is it always the coolest ideas and designs that we never end up seeing come into the mainstream

@granatmof

9 ай бұрын

The cool designs and concepts vehicles often serve to exaggerate certain features to learn lessons in testing a concept that can later be used in full production. Lessons learned by many concept planes and tanks and armored vehicles eventually make it into later vehicles which incorporate elements that work. Ultimately every vehicle and platform is a Compromise between numerous different attributes, and in the rare instance of those compromises having a significantly greater sum than existing platforms is there really advancement. A great example is the YF23 that competed with the YF22. But evolved from the lessons of the F117, which was difficult to fly, had extremely limited payload. The F22 was selected but lessons from the YF23 will undoubtably go on to influence NGAD. While the US military didn't pay for the lessons in this ship, they're still learning from the ship, and no doubt DARPA has done validation experiments and will release something derived from the patents after the patents expire. Or will buy the parents up at a cheap discount if the inventor ever decides to sell them.

@Duke00x

9 ай бұрын

This is mostly just a small fast attack version of the Sea Shadow. It was an experimental stealth ship biuld by Lockheed in the early 80's (completed in 84). It later was in the Pierce Brosnan Jamse Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies" in the 90's. This technology other then the propellers has already been tested decades ago.

@richardelliott8352

9 ай бұрын

I think the discussion in this thread about of the difficulty of water intrusion with a front propellor pretty much ended the discussion. @@granatmof

cant imagine how they can come up with this stuff. truly amazing. Engineers are so under appreciated. Thanks to all of you.

Cool and completely useless all at the same time

Do "Hunter Biden's laptop...It's not what you think!"

@Butter_Warrior99

9 ай бұрын

It was in fact real and not Russian disinformation.

@biggerdickus

9 ай бұрын

​@@Butter_Warrior99 Faker than Donald's innocence.

It looks interesting. I am not sure how well it will do on the high seas. It looks more like a patrol craft, or even a high end yacht..

This boat is, indeed, a SWATH catamaran. And “No,” she’s not going to be getting up to speed in 10 foot seas. This boat very much resembles the Navy’s SEA SHADOW from 1982.

CLICKBAIT... BULLLL.. this ship does not go underwater

@NotWhatYouThink

9 ай бұрын

You’re correct. It flies underwater through gas

"Boat that Flies Underwater" I prefer A "Plane that Submerses Over The Sky"

If the government can make it so you can’t sell or talk about you tech, it should mean they have to buy it

SWATH vessels are now used extensively in the UK to service the offshore wind renewable energy industry. Propellers on the stern however.

Incredible design.

@Mia-rk9en

9 ай бұрын

This is a SWATH military patrol ship and the rest of the video is just hype, nothing "secret" in this technology, which is applied to civil and military ships for over 50 years now... The first ship made in this configuration was Duplus, in 1969, an oil industry support ship.

Another super presentation😃

NGL that boat deserve the name ghost

I've worked in the yard they have this thing currently stored, thought it was cool as all hell.

The Ghost literally looks like something from Star Wars