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- <text id=92TT0468>
- <title>
- Mar. 02, 1992: Run Silent, Run Deep
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Mar. 02, 1992 The Angry Voter
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP
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- <p>By Janice Castro/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> Tom Clancy would love it: an ungainly ship with a
- state-of-the-art silent propulsion system that is virtually
- undetectable, even at speeds up to 115 m.p.h. Last month Japan
- launched the prototype. Christened the YAMATO (also the name of
- the imperial navy's World War II flagship), the vessel is the
- first in the world propelled by superconducting magnets that
- generate a powerful jet of water. Such a stealth design so far
- exists only in the imaginations of Western engineers. The
- Yamato, of course, is not a warship. But if Japan wanted to
- build a war machine, it has just the technology for a formidable
- fleet.
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- </body></article>
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