How fast do warships go

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If so, there is a need for the ships to be fast enough to catch-up or for that matter to reach a spot in good speed. Hence navy ships have to be fast. How fast? Just one more point before we get on with the article — when we say navy ships it includes, aircraft carrier, destroyer, interceptor, submarines, etc.

All of them vary in sizes and functionalities and hence when we speak of speed, chances are that the smaller ships may make it to the list and not the aircraft carrier size ships. To make it easier a separate article on aircraft carriers is available and readers can read it here.

In the introduction section I had mentioned that there would be no navy ship that would come close to mph, which though is factually correct, I did not mention one exception; in fact, the only exception which does more than mph. When I say fly I literally mean fly. The A was capable of not only gliding few meters above the water surface due to the ground effect it could actually fly up to meters. Sadly, due to other military priorities though, five were built in the 70s and all were retired by How interesting is that!

Due to its natural mode of operation, the A was invisible to Radar as it was flying just a few meters above the sea surface. In fact, it still makes sense and this particular model is not history yet. Since there are talks across countries to build such Ekranoplan. So, we may see it again in the 21st century after all. WP is the newest entrant in the world of fast watercraft and is built by a relatively new company as well, Abu Dhabhi MAR. The purpose of the craft is - interception - and will be used by navies and coast guards of the countries procuring it.

Even the cruising speed of 86 kmph is like driving a car on the road. More or less, across the globe, that is the speed for safe road driving and the WP does that on choppy waters. The shape of the WP allows it to cut through the waves and achieve the speed. The top speed, however, may require calmer seas. This is the first of the fastest unarmed navy ships in the world. In fact, it continues to be the fastest battleship even today.

Readers having read the article on the Fastest Aircraft Carriers would know that most of the battleships are half the speed of this ship. Take a look at some of its excellent credentials Excellent because no other ship was closer to these figures at the time :. Mind you this ship was literally flying, doing twice as fast as any ship of the time and the A was yet to make its first flight.

Also, it was stable at cruising speeds of 40 knots when for other ships it would be 18 knots. For those interested, they can still visit the Musee maritime du Quebec and look at history straight in the eye. This was one of the fastest navy ships before the WP interceptor was introduced. Skjold which means shield in Norwegian is part of the Royal Norwegian Navy. There were a total of six built and they are super fast, stealth enabled and equipped with attack missiles. Their speed numbers are impressive too.

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