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Abnredleg

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1. The Navy has used similar technology since WWI

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Nov 27, 2020, 12:58 PM

Nov 2020

The main difference being they used steam to power the electrical generators. They built several classes of battleships with turbo-electric power plants.

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