[Scan-DC] Stealth Warship in the Bay

[Robert W. Fisher]

Or perhaps they've got the real hull shape covered with a (white) 
radar-transparent material.....

Robert Fisher


On Jun 20, 2005, at 22:04, Frank Carson wrote:

> 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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