{"id":117,"date":"2001-05-08T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2001-05-08T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=117"},"modified":"2007-12-30T23:36:23","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T07:36:23","slug":"supercavitation-go-very-fast-underwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Supercavitation: Go very fast underwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/2001\/0501issue\/0501ashley.html\">Warp Drive Underwater<\/a> in the May 2001 issue of Scientific American talks about the use of \"supercavitation\" technologies that make it possible for vehicles underwater (initially torpedoes) to go a few hundred miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p>I thought the most interesting speculation was the effect of this technology on missile defense shields (e.g.. U.S. \"Star Wars\" initiative). Simply put a nuclear warhead on a missile that travels the first couple of hundred miles underwater very quickly, then pops up at the last minute to hit a coastal target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warp Drive Underwater in the May 2001 issue of Scientific American talks about the use of \"supercavitation\" technologies that make it possible for vehicles underwater (initially torpedoes) to go a few hundred miles per hour. I thought the most interesting speculation was the effect of <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=117\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}