WEP in Surface Vehicles
Some modern military surface vehicles also employ WEP features. The EFV (next generation US Marine Corps Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle) sports a 12-cylinder 1200 bhp diesel engine developed by the German MTU company. When the EFV is swimming the powerplant can be boosted to 2700 hp via the use of open circuit seawater-cooling. Such extreme war power setting allows the MTU engine to drive four massive water-jet exhausts which propel the surface-effect riding EFV vehicle at sea speeds reaching 35 knots.
Although the EFV prototypes have demonstrated revolutionary performance on water and land, the reliability of their extremely boosted powerplants has yet to meet stringent military standards and the vehicle failed to enter Marine Corps service as of autumn 2007.
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