Rolls-Royce Breaks Through Marine Propulsion Barriers

The US Navys X-Craft will be driven by Kamewa waterjets.

Rolls Royce has scored two breakthrough propulsion orders with the US Navy, its Kamewa waterjets having been selected to drive the experimental X-Craft high speed aluminium catamaran while its MT30 marine gas turbine has been chosen to power the Integrated Power System (IPS) Engineering Development Model (EDM) for the DD(X) ...

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