"Studying ship designs for endless years is a lot less valuable than to go ahead and build a few," said retired Vice Adm. Arthur Cebrowski in a 2003 Seapower interview while chief of the Pentagon's Office of Force Transformation (OFT). Cebrowski, who died in November 2005, had a hand in the design of several ships, ranging from the experimental Joint Venture to the Littoral Combat Ship, the first of which will be launched this fall. But the craft most reflective of his innovation and technological daring may well be the carbon-fiber Stiletto. Known for its ability to slice smoothly through waves assisted by channeled energy generated from beneath its unique hull, Stiletto utilizes a wake mitigating/wave dampening technology never before used by U.S. military vessels.
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