Design where Neptune: fears to tread.

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Naval: submarine

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Design where Neptune: fears to tread.

Since the end of the Cold War, submarine ownership has become 'democratised'. A growing number of nations are seeking the capability to perform attacks on other submarines and surface shipping, launch missiles against coastal and land targets and deliver special forces from beneath the waves. Technological innovations in submarine design have been imperative in driving this growth of submarine acquisition.

Thomas Withington, inputs from Eric H. Biass

A coustic signature reduction techniques have steadily become more advanced and gradually less expensive throughout the history of the submarine and since the invention of sonar during the first decade of the twentieth century. Similarly, military electronics have become smaller and cheaper thanks to Moore's Law--the principle by which the number of transistors that can be placed onto an integrated circuit doubles every two years. The result is...

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