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What Happened To Flying Ships? The Fall of Combat Hydrofoils

For a brief, high-speed moment during the Cold War, the world’s navies stopped fighting the waves and started flying over them. This was the era of the Combat Hydrofoil—vessels equipped with underwater wings that lifted their hulls completely out of the water, allowing them to reach staggering speeds of over 50 knots. From the American Pegasus-class to the Soviet "Project 1239," these "flying ships" were designed to be the ultimate hit-and-run weapon: invisible to mines, immune to torpedoes, and faster than any conventional hull. But if they were so superior, why did they vanish? In this video, we dive into the extreme physics of cavitation, the brutal maintenance costs that broke naval budgets, and the tactical shifts that turned these futuristic predators into expensive museum pieces. This is the rise and fall of the ocean’s fastest warriors.