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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. Lockheed Stealth Ship by sphealey · · Score: 1, Redundant

    > As well as being the first stealth ship,

    The Lockheed Skunk Works built a stealth ship for the US Navy back in the early 1980s. For various political and technical reasons the design was never accepted for production, but most "navy of the future" articles you see in both the popular and trade press use that design as the basis for their concept art.

    sPh

    1. Re:Lockheed Stealth Ship by sphealey · · Score: 1, Redundant
      Here is some information on the Sea Shadow.

      sPh

  2. Re:Sea Shadow by zazas_mmmm · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Actually, my guess is that this was the first stealth ship.

    Just because we eventually came to know how to detect it, doesn't mean it was any less stealthy in its time.

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  3. You forgot the Sea Shadow by Baldrson · · Score: 0, Redundant
    As well as being the first stealth ship

    The Sea Shadow stealth ship used to be parked inside a huge aquatic "hangar" back behind the NeXT headquarters at the same time Rolling Stone magazine conducted an interview of Steve Jobs there back in 1994.

    PS: The NSA loved NeXT's computers.

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