Rolls-Royce waterjets power x-craft

Rolls-Royce is providing its Kamewa waterjets for the US Navy?s X-Craft, an experimental ship due to be launched tomorrow. The high-speed aluminum catamaran X-Craft under construction at Nichols Brothers Boat Builders, Whidbey Island in Washington state, has four high-efficiency Kamewa 125 SII waterjets, which will deliver 50.4MW of power, driving ...

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