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February 5th, 2006 at 4:38 pm

Experimental US Special Forces Boat Launched

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The US Navy Special Forces will have a new high speed experimental craft with a very small wake.  Great photos.

Thirteen months ago, M Ship
Company was commissioned by the Office of Force Transformation to
produce a US Navy Special Forces sea craft capable of high speeds with
a low footprint. The boat contains no rivets or screws, and is
constructed from a composite hull 80 feet in length.

The "M" shaped hull design came about as a need to reduce wave damage in seafaring cities such as a Venice.
By shaping the hull into three or five distinct hulls joined by smooth
curvatures, M Ship engineers discovered that prototype "M" hulls were
extremely stable in rough water. Mini vortexes are created in between
each of the hulls, suspending the ship above a free flowing stream of
water with a very small wake. Fewer surface waves attracted the
attention of the US Navy, who immediately put M Ship Co. to work on a
working prototype.

The M80 Stiletto is part of the US Navy’s
plan to bring more special forces under the fold, dubbed Wolf PAC. M
Ship Co. has several more designs in store for the US Navy, and the M80
platform is one design of many more to come.

MS 80 Stiletto

Military – M80 Stiletto
Lightweight, all-carbon ship

M80 Stiletto

The M80 Stiletto project is funded by the Office of Force
Transformation through Naval Surface Warfare Center,Carderock Division,
to design and fabricate an 80 foot Stiletto demonstration hull
reflecting the proprietary M-hull design as part of the Office of Force
Transformations (OFT) distributed networked forces initiative.


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