Everything you wanted to know about Ghost Ships

[geetrue]

http://www.military.com/pics/SoldierTech_StealthShip1.jpg
Low profile: The flat, outward sloping hull of the Visby
Corvette reflects radar waves, allowing it to slip
undetected past enemy radar
(Photo by Kockums AB).

You can't attack what you can't pick up on radar


http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_StealthShips,,00.html

[ASWnut101]

I thought that was the DD-X/21. They look ugly


Oh, and do they have ghosts on them? They ARE called ghost ships, now.:)

[Linton]

I wonder what they look like through a periscope?

[Kapitan]

Cant detect what you cant see no but you can detect what you can hear i bet them visbys show up on sonar pretty good.

[Linton]

OT Kap did you ever get to engage asw nut?

[Takeda Shingen]

And here I was expecting a discussion regarding the Flying Dutchman.

[Kapitan]

Still tied up in port still waiting to battle the guy and i will soon i hope !

[Linton]

Tak you should know by now that nothing is ever as it seems on this board!!

[August]

"You can't attack what you can't pick up on radar"

I dunno about that. Navys managed to attack things quite effectively before radar was invented and now with sonar, thermal imaging, satellites and various other high tech gizmos i'd imagine they'll manage overcome the obstacle.