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Surface Forces: August 22, 2000

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Having already committed to electric drive for its new Zumwalt-class destroyers, the US Navy is now looking into an electric drive system for the new Virginia class of attack submarines. An electric drive does not mechanically link the engine to the propellers, but uses the power plant to run a generator and then uses the electricity to run an electric motor.--Stephen V Cole

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