No wonder the MERRIMACK (or VIRGINIA) never showed up on radar screens.
Looks a lot like one of the recent Bond villain ships. Don’t recall which one.
A real pity to see it go that way.
A long time ago I war-gamed a way to use the Sea-Shadow as a forward deployed Arsenal Ship. No radiating equipment just receivers and it used other vessels, Air Craft and Satellites for targeting. Of course it was all hypothetical, but still it was fun war-gaming it.
And for those who want to know it was a private naval based wargame using a combination of miniatures and computers for calculation of various factors.
I thought you might be interested in this bit of military history.
I recall Popular Science or some such had an artists rendition of this craft back in the day. It was right on the heels of the stealth F-117 and the like.
Here it is in action.
"I'd buy that foh a dorrah!"
That looks a lot like the barge that they built the grapple for the Glomar Exploder for Project Azorian. At least they reused something?
That would be a heck of a houseboat on Lake Shasta.
Hard part would be getting it there.
The ship to be on when the Sunburns are streaking in at Mach 3.
There’s an online photo tour here
http://www.hnsa.org/seashadow/index.php?pano=nr
Pretty interesting.