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More on the Swedish Stealth Ship

Posted by michael on from the fnord-in-the-fjord dept.

Dr.Knackerator writes "The BBC is running a story on Sweden's new carbon fibre stealth ship, the Visby. As well as being the first stealth ship, it is controlled by 'state-of-the-art computers using a Windows NT operating system'. 'But Kockums and the Swedish Navy deny it could be sabotaged by hackers and say that even if it did they could fall back to traditional steering and navigation'." We had a previous story about this as well.

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  1. The US has had a stealth ship since the mid-80's by Flounder · · Score: 5, Informative
    but if I told you about it, I'd have to kill you.

    Sea Shadow

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  2. Re:Coolest part... by BWJones · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, cryptic paint schemes go back as far as the early 1900's in war ships designed to conceal edges and make it difficult to determine which direction a ship may be traveling in. They have been used on and off for years, but most commonly on smaller littoral combat platforms rather than larger ships.

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  3. Been there done that! by 10Ghz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Finnish Hamina-class. Maybe not as radical as this ship, but stealth-ship regardless. And packed with high technology.

    So what makes this Swedish ship "first stealth-ship", when there are already stealth-ships in use in Finland? And they have been in use for quite some time already.

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  4. Re:Doesn't the US have a stealth Ship? by Quila467 · · Score: 5, Informative

    You're probably thinking of the Lockheed Martin "Sea Shadow" which was a stealth ship built by the same group that built the F-117 stealth fighter and the SR-71. It was built by Skunk Works in the mid 80's as a test ship to test stealth technology on ships. If you google for skunkworks sea shadow, you should be able to find a picture of it.

  5. Re:Hmmm. by Geekenstein · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, NT is the most likely OS. Military hardware takes years of design and testing to be put into service. If you look at the computer specs for the newest USAF fighter prototypes, you'll see they have about the computing power of a 486. Once things are certified and stress tested, you don't go changing the design on something that works.

  6. Re:Hmmm. by borgboy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, having been in the defense industry, I can say with the timeline this warship was developed that it's entirely probable that it does run Windows NT 4.0. You dont change specs like that on a project of this scope lightly. NT also has been rated C2, in certain specific configurations.
    Good? Bad? Evil? Not my argument.

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