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A stealth ship is a ship that employs stealth technology construction techniques in an effort to make it harder to detect by one or more of radar, visual, sonar, and infrared methods. These techniques borrow from stealth aircraft technology, although some aspects such as wake and acoustic signature reduction ( acoustic quieting ) are unique to ...
Sea Shadow was built in 1984 to examine the application of stealth technology on naval vessels and was used in secret until a public debut in 1993. In addition, the ship was designed to test the use of automation to reduce crew size. The ship was created by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.S. Navy and Lockheed.
It weighs 45 tons unloaded, light enough to be hoisted onto a cargo ship, yet it can carry a 20 ton payload. The craft is 88.6 feet (27.0 m) LOA, with a width of 40 feet (12.2 m) and a height of 18.5 feet (5.6 m) and a draft of 2.5 feet (0.8 m). The M80 Stiletto is the largest U.S. naval vessel using advanced carbon-fiber and epoxy composite ...
HSwMS Visby (K31) is the lead ship of the Visby-class corvettes. It was created as a stealth ship , and underwent a decade long testing phase before it entered service with the Swedish Navy . Design and description
Pages in category "Stealth ships" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Zumwalt-class destroyer is a class of three United States Navy guided-missile destroyers designed as multi-mission stealth ships with a focus on land attack. The class was designed with a primary role of naval gunfire support and secondary roles of surface warfare and anti-aircraft warfare.
Stealth Ship – media mogul Elliot Carver's secret news creator in Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997 (based on the real-life Sea Shadow (IX-529) SS Southern Queen – Setting for the first half of the Preston Sturges directed 1941 comedy The Lady Eve starring Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck.
To achieve its top speed the ship has to be traveling in waters not exceeding sea state 3, waves up to 1.25 m (4.1 ft) high. At sea state 4 it can travel at up to 15 knots, at only 5 knots in sea state 5, and has to hold position in any higher sea state. This reflects the ship's purpose of operating close to shore rather than in "blue water". [17]