IMPOSSIBLE TO SINK, THE THUNDER CHILD DEFIES STORMY SEAS || WARTHOG 2018

[Music] safe-haven Marine is world-renowned for building Hardy boats that can take on challenging missions in the harshest environments and they look gorgeous while doing it with a portfolio ranging from search and rescue vessels to pilot boats and from wind farm tenders to scientific catamarans diversity is sort of their thing last year they made a splash when they unveiled their stealthy high speed patrol boat the Barracuda now they've introduced its bigger and badder cousin to the world the aptly named Thunder child let's get this out of the way first Thunder child xsv 17 is one handsome piece of marine engineering and seeing it in action only solidifies that fact watching the ship fly through the water you immediately hear the synth beat from the opening of Miami Vice or the theme from Thunder in paradise in your head depending on your generation there is no doubt that this thing has a lot in common with the high-performance race boats featured in both those shows but Thunder child is the real deal with real military and law enforcement applications it can also take one hell of a beating safe-haven sees a role for Thunder child's production variant which will be part of their Barracuda family and votes in any maritime application where speed is critical it cruises at over 40 knots but can be throttled up to sixty one time is of the essence the boat is ideal for missions like patrol interdiction asset protection and pursuit and it can be armed with a 7.62 millimeters or 50 calories gun or a 40 millimetres grenade launcher in a retractable bow turret just like it's smaller Barracuda cousins additionally radars electro-optical and communication suites and even less than lethal weaponry can be installed depending on customer needs Thunder child with its stealthy design and extreme speed could also act as a Special Operations support vessel for low intensity warfare and reconnaissance missions here is how safe-haven marine describes the ship's decreased radar reflectivity the design of xsv 17 utilizes various stealth technologies to produce a lower RCS radar cross-section allowing it to operate with a very high degree of invisibility to an adversaries radar stealth technologies are employed in the superstructure and hull design utilizing flat plane principles to its surfaces in the forward Afton cabin side projections to deflect radar beams away from source these unique features work together with RAM and specialized outfitting including minimal and metallic fittings above decks all of which combine to produce a vessel with a very significantly lower than normal RCS formal aspects above all that it retains the search-and-rescue pedigree that safe haven has built over the years when the clock is ticking the difference between 60 knots and 30 knots can easily mean life and death Thunder child can operate with a crew of up to ten six in chunk attenuating seats in the cabin and four in the bow cabin which also includes a head in a berthing area the barracuda production variant can up the low 216 the boat is 59 feet long in just over 13 feet wide fully loaded she displaces 20 tons but has a draught of just 2 feet 9 inches able to carry 1320 gallons of fuel Thunder child could range out to 750 miles under power from her twin caterpillar sea 12.9 1,000 horsepower engines its surface drive units are also quite special as you can see in the video below probably the most unique feature of the boat is her home which was painstakingly designed to take on pretty much anything to seek and throw at it safe-haven describes Thunder child's design as such the vessel is constructed from advanced lightweight FRP cored composites the radical and innovative whole design hull design combines a constant detrás deep VL form incorporating twin chines capable of 60 kts with a wave piercing bow form a 24 degree dead rise at the transom transitions to a wave piercing bow with a superfine wave cutting line entry designed to run clear of the water at very high speeds but which can be bought into dramatic effect with adjustable trim control to very effectively minimizes vertical accelerations at speed in waves thereby maximizing crew endurance the hull provides exceptionally high levels of sea keeping abilities on all courses with its twin china arrangements providing for high levels of both static and dynamic stability the design is fully soft writing capable of recovering after capsized by a large braking sea and is survivable up to sea state eight capable of operating effectively enough to sea state six and maintain operational speed and sea state for a unique feature is the bow boolean sea control fins used to increase fluency and following seas preventing excessive submersion the fins are adjustable for wave height and craft speed this thing is not just a militarized race boat it can also survive in some of the worst weather on the planet the ability to provide its full operational envelope over a wide range environmental conditions and even in full-blown storms sea state six means wave heights up to 20 feet indicates that Thunder child is not a niche capability the boat simply offers far more speed compared to boats executing similar missions in these conditions today it will be interesting to see if Thunder child or more accurately its Barracuda production variant can find a place in the market countries in Asia and oil-rich nations in the Middle East come to mind first when it comes to buyers for a craft like this they could also be useful off the shores of Latin America where drug smuggling remains a major problem there's also some chance of being adopted as a very rough water operations craft by some special operations units but the reality is that any Coast Guard could benefit from more speed especially for homeland security and search and rescue operations Thunder child is so unique because it offers a lot more of just that without sacrificing sea keeping abilities safe haven looks to make a record-setting high-speed circumnavigation of Ireland a summer and Thunder child is part of a proving process for the new design franca Volsky of safe haven marine describes the pending adventure the route involves a 1,000 kilometers open ocean crossing into the North Atlantic one of the roughest and most notorious seasons on the planet but for Thunder child I am confident that we will set a new record and have a safe albeit nail-biting trip the trip will involve several hours navigation in the dark and will inevitably encounter rough conditions which will put incredible stress on both vessel and crew we will keep you updated as the program progresses [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music]

Channel: Warthog Defense

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Keywords: Iowa class, USS Missouri, South Dakotas, knots, ZUMWALT, STEALTH, SHIP, DESTROYER, CLASS, NAVY, ARMY, SEA, SEA MONSTER, guided missile destroyers, stealth ships, ATTACK, LAND, surface warfare, anti-aircraft warfare, naval gunfire support, battleships, naval fire support, vessel, ironclad warship, low radar profile, POWER, electric drive motors, weapons, RAIL GUN, Ship Computing Environment Infrastructure, automated fire-fighting systems

Id: PUWAKxAkLs4

Length: 7min 12sec (432 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 26 2018