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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP
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- By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- 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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