[Scan-DC] Stealth Warship in the Bay

[Frank Carson]

Maybe, since it's a test bed, they aren't worried about the look yet.  Maybe
it's just out and about for radar testing or something like that.  Besides,
if it gets lost they would want to be able to find it - can't be too
"stealthy" <g>.

Frank Carson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Bacon" <scan-dc at djbitz.com>
To: "'Andrew Leyden'" <andrew at leyden.com>; <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 6:42 PM
Subject: RE: [Scan-DC] Stealth Warship in the Bay


> It's white not black any reason why. Why not blue to blend in with the
water
> a bit more.
>
> JOHN
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Leyden [mailto:andrew at leyden.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 5:42 PM
> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Scan-DC] Stealth Warship in the Bay
>
> This is a weird one.
>
> What can only be described as a stealth PT boat has just gone past my
> house and is now near the radar testing range of the Navy Research
> Lab at Chesapeake Beach.  It's about 150 feet long, and probably not
> more than 8 feet high (the cockpit looks like one of those high speed
> racing boats).  It's about 2000 yards offshore and is pretty hard to
> see.  It's doing 90 degree turns to give different profiles to the
> radars.
>
> Yes, I did get a picture of it.  It's a bit far off though.  I used
> my film camera to get a better one (bigger lens) but this digital
> posted here will have to do for now until I get that developed.
>
> http://www.penguinsix.com/blog/
>
> Raw image here (big file):
>
> http://www.penguinsix.com/images/stealth.jpg
>
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