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Induction motors offer low noise signature

According to motor company Indar, up to now vessels complying with Silent class notation have had to use DC motors, but this has now changed.

Indar has supplied low noise AC induction motors for propulsion of the Belgian research vessel ‘Simon Stevin’

According to motor company Indar, up to now vessels complying with Silent class notation have had to use DC motors, but this has now changed.

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