Wouldn’t that be an extremely suboptimal shape for submerged hydrodynamics?
This sounds like the dreams of a designer fresh out of college. No basis in reality, but good enough for the press.
Having a little expertise in some of the promises, I thought I’d have a look. But the whole article reads like a procurement wish/pitch, not even specs yet.
There’s no peer reviewed physical way they can achieve some of the claims, and doubtful if it’s possible at all within current understanding of physics.
I’m happy to be contradicted though, it’s about time we had a new understanding of physics, Quantum mechanics is over a century old now.
Engine position below com, bow profile looks like it’ll try to push itself out of the water, ballast tanks what are those? And they want 50kph submerged?
The dinky torpedoes are cute I suppose.
With these wings they are probably using negative hydrodynamic lift to stay underwater?
If that’s the plan the current design looks far too rigid, they’d need to adjust their cruising speed based on payload to ensure consistent depth keeping. How would they lurk without floating up?
Well – they’d have to lurk like loitering munition – cruising.
I think it looks far more like an ekranoplane than a submersible craft. The 10 passenger + 1 pilot capacity is interesting in that context: according to the source of all wisdom and knowledge, the international rules for ground effect vehicles apply only to crafts carrying 12 passengers and more.
If they have to constantly be moving then that dramatically shortens their mission time and sacrifices stealth.
Everything about that looks and sounds fake/rendered. I don’t believe anything about those specs.
The companies UK address appears to be a residential address in Sudbury…
Keith the ex Aerospace engineer fireing up AUtodesk Inventor on their 586
The guy approaching it on a jet pack was a nice touch
I see a video of what looks like a fibreglass mockup sitting in a small dock?
Yes. I’m countering the “it looks rendered” accusation. That’s not rendered.
Well ok fair. The mockup isn’t rendered, seems they were at an expo last year with it. As for the specs? I remain skeptical.
There is a video of a thing being towed in the water, my man.
Yes. I’m countering the “it looks rendered” accusation. That’s not rendered.
Looks like something the X Men would ride in
Looks AI generated. Just the kind of thing that would make the opposition paranoid and expend ammo into the sea.
Any particular reason you would say it “looks AI generated”? A quick googling gave me this page that has a whole bunch of different shots of the submarine from a variety of different angles, as well as videos of it moving around. Some of it is likely mockups, some of it may be CGI, but one thing that AI is not particularly good at yet is consistency - that’s clearly the same submarine in each shot, the details aren’t varying.
While being blurry the background has lots of ships and detail that look “off.” The slant of the building was putting me off until I saw that this picture was coming from the UAE which has some wild architecture.
The page you linked from Highland definitely seals the deal that the Kronos is a real device.
