Originally posted by Blackmarketeer
reply to post by alyosha1981

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They're supremely confident their systems can stop any weapon from getting through their defensive nets. Does it always work? Not in the case of the USS Cole, which was nearly sunk by the Iraqi in the 1980's. But since then newer Aegis systems track all threats not to just their own ships but to all the ships in their group, allowing them to work as a unified system to stop incoming threats. AFAIK all modern Navy ships have eliminated armor in their hull designs.

When he took one of his early demonstration jet boats to the US, the media scoffed when he said he planned to take it up the Colorado River (U.S.), but in 1960 a Hamilton jet became the first boat to travel up through the Grand Canyon. The critics were silenced further when the boat also went down river through the canyon.

Jetsprinting as an organised sport originated in New Zealand in 1981, and events were originally held in the same natural braided rivers that had inspired Sir William Hamilton to develop the jetboat, but when the sport was introduced to Australia in the mid-1980s permanent artificial courses were used—and this is now the norm even in New Zealand.