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Should We Pick This Up For JTF? ;)
« on: February 24, 2009, 11:49:01 AM »
Top-Secret Navy Vessel Needs a Home


Sea Shadow was built in the early 1980s for $195 million.
Its special coatings and crystalline angles allowed it to baffle radar and sonar.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. —  Anybody want some top-secret seagoing vessels? The Navy has a pair it doesn't need anymore. It has been trying to give them away since 2006, and they're headed for the scrap yard if somebody doesn't speak up soon.

One is called Sea Shadow. It's big, black and looks like a cross between a Stealth fighter and a Batmobile. It was made to escape detection on the open sea. The other is known as the Hughes (as in Howard Hughes) Mining Barge. It looks like a floating field house, with an arching roof and a door that is 76 feet wide and 72 feet high. Sea Shadow berths inside the barge, which keeps it safely hidden from spy satellites.

The barge, by the way, is the only fully submersible dry dock ever built, making it very handy — as it was 35 years ago — for trying to raise a sunken nuclear-armed Soviet submarine.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,499089,00.html  ^-^
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Re: Should We Pick This Up For JTF? ;)
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2009, 12:01:41 PM »
I can't believe that they have released photographs of this secret vessel. Back in the 80s it was kept top secret and I understand why. I hope that the enemy doesn't learn anything from these photographs. Most of the qualities which provide the stealth are in the materials and the angles {if I remember properly}.

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« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2009, 12:03:50 PM »
Quote from: muman613 on February 24, 2009, 12:01:41 PM
I can't believe that they have released photographs of this secret vessel. Back in the 80s it was kept top secret and I understand why. I hope that the enemy doesn't learn anything from these photographs. Most of the qualities which provide the stealth are in the materials and the angles {if I remember properly}.



It's obsolete, they're trying to GIVE it away, don't worry about the pictures, you can have the actual boat! LOL.
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« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2009, 01:46:21 PM »
I hope they remember to take off the radar absorbing pasting before they sell it to China.
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« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2009, 03:25:58 PM »
Quote from: New Yorker on February 24, 2009, 12:03:50 PM
Quote from: muman613 on February 24, 2009, 12:01:41 PM
I can't believe that they have released photographs of this secret vessel. Back in the 80s it was kept top secret and I understand why. I hope that the enemy doesn't learn anything from these photographs. Most of the qualities which provide the stealth are in the materials and the angles {if I remember properly}.



It's obsolete, they're trying to GIVE it away, don't worry about the pictures, you can have the actual boat! LOL.

I want it!!! :) :) :)
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« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2009, 03:44:37 PM »
I would be the talk of the town at a yacht club with that.
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« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2009, 03:52:03 PM »
Quote from: Vito on February 24, 2009, 03:44:37 PM
I would be the talk of the town at a yacht club with that.

Hey- I've already put in my request for it!
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« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2009, 03:53:49 PM »
Quote from: xoce on February 24, 2009, 03:52:03 PM
Quote from: Vito on February 24, 2009, 03:44:37 PM
I would be the talk of the town at a yacht club with that.

Hey- I've already put in my request for it!

I will throw you off board so damn quick...
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« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2009, 03:55:32 PM »
I'll take you with me overboard!
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« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2009, 03:58:12 PM »
Fine then we split weekends.
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« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2009, 03:59:56 PM »
Quote from: Vito on February 24, 2009, 03:58:12 PM
Fine then we split weekends.

I'll go first.  And then we'll see if you can find me!  :::D
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« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2009, 04:05:59 PM »
Alright wiseguy you got me this time..
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