“San Francisco, Calif. (Mar. 18, 1999) The U.S. Navy Sea Shadow (IX-529) craft gets underway at dusk to participate in events associated with Fleet Battle Experiment-Echo, sponsored by Commander, Third Fleet and the Maritime Battle Center. Sea Shadow was reactivated this year to support the evaluation of future Navy ship designs and technologies, including automation for reduced manning, propulsion concepts, and characteristics of surface ship stealth.” (Wikipedia, Sea Shadow (IX-529))
The new ship designs are based on stealth technology. In the new designs and visions for fast reconnaissance, patrol, and attack craft. The craft itself can look a little bit like a blackbird. That biomimicking outfit makes radar impulses to slide away from the transmitter. The craft itself would be catamarans with two underwater keels. And the boat would look like. Being lying on two torpedoes. Those underwater structures give them incredible speed. The Sea Shadow retired and was scrapped in 2012. But modern specialists think that 18 stealth crafts can protect the entire U.S. carrier fleet.
These two crafts. Retired Sea Shadow and the Ghost boats can operate. Along with bigger ships. The Sea Shadow uses technology. Developed for F-117 Night Hawk. The Sea Shadow can drop torpedoes or launch missiles between its keels. That makes it possible to open fire without. Breaking the stealth form of the craft. If the torpedo or missile hatches are at the bottom of the craft. The craft can drop those weapons into the water. And those launches will be harder to detect. Especially if some kind of drone.
It carries the weapon a certain distance from the Sea Shadow. That craft is one of the stealth ships in service. The Juliet Marine System’s Ghost boat is a smaller and very fast stealth boat. “Juliet Marine Systems Ghost is a super-cavitating stealth ship. The ship's experimental hull design can reduce hull friction to 1/900th that of conventional watercraft. Ghost was designed, developed, and built by the private American company Juliet Marine Systems.” (Wikipedia, Juliet Marine Systems Ghost)
Juliet Marine System Ghost. The craft could carry two Harpoon or SLAM missiles under its hatches.
The Corsair drone boat. That picked the downed Apache Crew. Out Of The Gulf of Oman
That system can operate with special forces or attack craft. There is also a possibility of using that system as a surface drone. The surface drone can be used for reconnaissance or attack missions. The kamikaze-sea drone can carry an internal. Conventional or nuclear explosives. The drone can also carry other drones or missiles. That makes them more versatile.
Or they can save things like pilots. Who were shot down. This kind of mission is made. In the Hormuz Strait. When the U.S AH-64 “Apache” helicopter was shot down by Iran. The sea drone picked the crew out of the water. The drone was not the Ghost boat. But the mission introduced a new doctrine in naval operations.
The small vehicles can be carried to the operational zone on bigger ships. The ships could carry those smaller boats in the dry pools. In their hull. When those bigger ships require their drones. They can fill that pool with water and release them against the enemy. The idea is taken from the model. Of the WWII tactical scenario. There are landing ships that normally carry small landing craft. Could carry torpedo boats. When the enemy attacks, those torpedo boats will be released from that dock. The large-sized landing ship could also carry those sea drones.
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https://theaviationgeekclub.com/18-sea-shadow-stealth-ships-could-protect-the-entire-us-navy-carrier-fleet-remembering-the-warship-that-used-the-stealth-technology-of-the-f-117-nighthawk/amp/
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