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1 posted on 06/20/2011 5:31:52 PM PDT by Kartographer
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You mean to tell me that obama does not want that toy for the Presidential Yacht?

LLS


2 posted on 06/20/2011 5:33:41 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer ("GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH"! I choose LIBERTY and PALIN!)
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Why not post the picture of a ship that most people don't know by its name?


4 posted on 06/20/2011 5:36:57 PM PDT by Rudder (The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
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The boat looks to be stable when it’s upside down.


9 posted on 06/20/2011 6:19:10 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Probably best that they get this thing out of the water now, and into the scrapyard as quickly as possible. If its been sitting around for four or five years, it is probably a nightmare of corrosion that even the manufacturer couldn’t repair, and nobody else is going to either.


10 posted on 06/20/2011 6:19:18 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Your what hurts??)
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... which served as an inspiration for the supervillain's supervessel in the James Bond movie "Tomorrow Never Dies,"

Bond Ship:


13 posted on 06/20/2011 6:56:06 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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What's interesting was that the Sea Shadow's test results did get applied to more modern ships. More recent classes of destroyers and frigates built for the US Navy now have special shapes to drastically reduce the radar cross section (RCS), and a number of foreign frigates have switched to low-observable designs based on what was learned from the Sea Shadow.
14 posted on 06/20/2011 6:59:34 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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Would love to own a Popular Science cover vessel. Can’t find pics of the interior. Think they’d consider a trade for a 2002 Ford Windstar? It’s an SE and a real bute!


18 posted on 06/20/2011 8:02:14 PM PDT by TruthHound ("He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." --Leonardo da Vinci)
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The Navy had hoped that a private buyer would come forward and take the spy ship off its hands.

How much were they asking?

21 posted on 06/20/2011 9:09:59 PM PDT by Ken H
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Considering it was a technology demonstration, and not an operational warship, no big deal. Any stealth tech materials are long gone. No weapon platforms, no other tech to be exploited. The external design features are not earth shaking to other countries interested in this stuff.


22 posted on 06/20/2011 11:48:16 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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