1990s US Navy concept, possible replacement for USS Parche

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New info on an already obscure project. My guess is it was a design study for a possible alternative to USS Jimmy Carter being modified for Seabed Warfare.

Double hull with external weapons, blended sail and conformal pumpjet casing. Cool design.

Possible twin hull?
http://www.hisutton.com/USN_Submarine_Concept.html
 

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Looks like one of so-called Team 2020 concepts...
 

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Yeah that's not a dedicated Special Mission sub like 23 is, that's a concept from US Naval Sea Systems Command’s Submarine Future Studies Group for a class of multirole submarines utilizing large UUVs and external weapons. The Forward PASS team ran with a lot of these, including concepts of how to transition from the conventional and affordable Centurion (VIRGINIA) to some really out there configurations over time.
 
Popular Mechanics seems to have lifted most of your article. I hope they had the good grace to ask first.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a21728744/us-navy-attack-submarine-prototype-200/
 
Thanks for all the info. FWIW, I haven't seen anything which confirms that it was actually part of either Team 2020 or Forward Pass. So just used by EB around that time to illustrate futuristic designs?
 
Here is a link to a report that I found that has some of the 2020 concepts in in (many of the pictures already shared). I would love to find clearer versions of these pictures. It looks like they came out of a PowerPoint presentation.

http://kentaurus.com/downloads/IDRSub.pdf
 
Another site that has some related data, though this time in Russian.

http://tehno-science.ru/voennaya-texnika-221.html/
 
covert_shores said:
Thanks for all the info. FWIW, I haven't seen anything which confirms that it was actually part of either Team 2020 or Forward Pass. So just used by EB around that time to illustrate futuristic designs?

Seems likely. For example, the illustration of this design shows up in a 1999 report about metallurgy (link below). The report has no information about the design, just a pretty picture to illustrate a section about advances in submarine metalworking.

That report predates Team 2020 or ForwardPASS, which started in 1999 and didn't finish up until late 2000 or early 2001. That doesn't mean it wasn't used as a concept for one of those program -- a lot of their output was just bundling existing company concepts into a semi-coherent government-funded study. But the image alone is clearly a bit older than those efforts.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a493525.pdf
 

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