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Navy To Auction Stealth Ship
First time accepted submitter Sparticus789 writes "Looks like the Navy is doing some housecleaning and selling off failed experiments, 'Yup, the Lockheed Martin-built Sea Shadow is being auctioned off from its home in the Suisun Bay ghost fleet in California.' Bidding is right now at $100,000 and it even comes with the dock. Don't get your hopes up of an evil hideout, the fine print says 'The ex-sea shadow shall be disposed of by completely dismantling and scrapping within the U.S.A."
Hey, it's a stealth ship. Tell the government that you've dismantled it, then sail it away right in front of the coast guard. They won't suspect a thing.
"Don't get your hopes up of an evil hideout, the fine print says 'The ex-sea shadow shall be disposed of by completely dismantling and scrapping within the U.S.A.""
Yeah, because as an evil supervillian, I always make certain that I strictly abide by my contracts with the US government.
Also, my lawyers have reminded me that the contract says nothing about not re-assembling it, or not using all the information gleaned by disassembling it to build a new one. Eeeexcellent.
Seriously, it's a stealth ship in a ghost fleet. If it can be found, I think it's safe to call it a failed experiment.
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>> It wasn't developed in competition with anything.
That's a testament to just how good the winning ship was.
it was competing with Chuck Norris.
It was the considerably higher price tag that was the primary "military" objective.