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Article: ELECTRIC DRIVE PROPOSALS 'STRONG CANDIDATES' FOR DD-21 By Frank Wolfe.
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- Defense Daily
- Article date:
- October 7, 1998
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.-Two teams competing for a design award on the Navy's future destroyer, DD-21, are developing electric drive proposals to save manning, fuel and maintenance costs on the ship, which is planned to have just 95 Navy personnel aboard.
"All electric and integrated electric propulsion will be strong candidates," James Baskerville, the chief engineer for advanced technology at General Dynamics' Bath Iron Works [GD], told a Naval Institute symposium audience here last week. "Can it make it by 2004 or 2005? I think the answer is yes."
The first DD-21 is expected to reach the fleet in 2008. A total of 32 ships are planned to be built. Running ...