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A Submarine That Can Go 100 Knots. The fastest submarine in the US Navy can go only 25 to 30 knots. But the Electric Boat Corporation, the primary designer for US Navy submarines, is trying to design one that can reach up to 100 knots. It plans on testing a 1/4 scale model off the coast of Rhode Island next year:
Warner Robins, Georgia (CNN)Al Joersz and George Morgan remember the day they joined the ranks of the fastest men alive. In 1976 they smashed the world aviation speed record by blasting across the Western United States in America's super spy plane, the Lockheed SR-71. Official speed: 2,193 mph. It wasn't supposed to be that big of a deal, Joersz said on the phone from his home in Temple, Texas.