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Navy To Auction Stealth Ship

Posted by samzenpus on from the invisible-fishing dept.

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."

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  1. Old (and Fox) News by arisvega · · Score: 3, Informative

    This news is at least 2 years old, and it could be as old as 5 years or more.

    I know you don't RTFA, at least google the story a bit or follow a wikipedia reference or two. It's not that someone will duplicate your scoop in the few moments it takes to at least try to verify the story.

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    1. Re:Old (and Fox) News by DerekLyons · · Score: 4, Informative

      I know you don't RTFA, at least google the story a bit or follow a wikipedia reference or two.

      Don't take the Slashdot editors to task for what you're too lazy to do yourself.
       
      If you actually read and comprehended your linked references, you'd note that the previous attempts have been to sell/donate Sea Shadow as a museum ship - while this offer is for scrapping and disposal.

  2. Re:Strange definition of "evil" by hawguy · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

    The auction listing says this:

    (THE EX-SEA SHADOW SHALL BE DISPOSED OF BY COMPLETELY DISMANTLING AND SCRAPPING WITHIN THE U.S.A. DISMANTILING IS DEFINED AS REDUCING THE PROPERTY SUCH AS IT HAS NO VALUE EXCEPT FOR ITS BASIC MATERIAL CONTENT.)

    I fail to see how you could disassemble it in a way that allows reassembly and still be able to show that you reduced the ship down to where it has no value except its basic material content. I suppose you could melt it down and reshape each piece into its original shape, but that seems more expensive than just building a brand new ship.

  3. Re:How will you find it? Failed Experiment by Nimey · · Score: 3, Informative

    There were a couple rocket-powered F-104s. Chuck Yeager crashed one of them, IIRC.

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