An update from someone who worked on one phase of the project:
T-Craft - Page 3 - Boat Design Forums
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Originally Posted by BMcF
Ahh yes...it was an interesting four years of design and model testing. Alas..it's all over. The Navy has completely pulled the plug on the effort and there will not be..for now anyway..a T-Craft built. All three teams have been debriefed and the project is closed.
The Umoe hull design was 100% composite and a section of that hull, in full scale and very similar in size to the aluminum example shown in last pic, is being completed by VT-Halter in Mississippi. For naught, at least as far as T-Craft is concerned, but perhaps a useful (in future) transfer of large-scale composite hull technology from overseas to a US shipyard?
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