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Originally Posted by JasonG
I seem to recall the navy was experimenting with stepped hull design for high speed craft.
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Stepped hull designs are nothing new.
It's been used on seaplanes and speedboats for about 100 years.
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They got the idea from some shark or snake, memory not working.......scales/sawtooth shape.
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Probably reinventing the theory and scaling the steps down while adding many more of them ?
It's been done with overlapping plates, on boats and aircraft alike.
If you do the same with a stepped rear deck, you end up approaching the aerodynamic template
