Trends for future high-performance naval platforms

Abstract

The survey discusses trends including high-speed vessels including new hybrid concepts, unmanned drones, reduction of crews, all-electric ship, podded drives and stealth. The literature survey focuses on developments of the past three years and was developed within the framework of a recent and continuing study for the French Navy.

Keywords:

• Naval design
• naval ship
• combatant
• modular design
• electric ship
• stealth
• crew reduction
• multihull
• high-speed craft

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Notes on contributors

B Beauchamps

Benjamin Beauchamps graduated from Ensieta in 2006 as a military student and is currently serving a tour on board the helicopter carrier Jeanne d’Arc.

V Bertram

Volker Bertram is a lecturer for naval architecture at the French naval university Ensieta and extraordinary professor at Stellenbosch University, Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has written more than 200 publications, including two books on naval architecture. His research interest include ship design, ship hydrodynamics and applications of computer science to ships.