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Front cover: The UK Royal Navy’s future aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth was floated out recently Babcock’s Rosyth facility
Feature 2 Amphibious/logistics vessels
38-40 Step change requried in landing craft performance
Feature 3 Advanced hullforms
42-46 Wave piercing monohull has a host of potential applications
5 Editorial comment Long-range plan is impossible to fund
6-15 News 6-15 News
16-46 Features
Feature 1 Submarine propulsion 16-35 Rim drive technology could facilitate smaller, more flexible submarines
36-37 Series 4000 to form basis of new submarine diesel
Investing in the original pays off
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