Posted on 02/06/2009 6:21:30 AM PST by MyTwoCopperCoins
The future is here: This water-based Imperial Star Destroyer is really the spectacular Swedish Visby-Class corvette, the first operational stealth ship in the world, powered with silent waterjets and made with non-magnetic composite materials.
According to the experts, the corvettes are "electronically undetectable at more than 8 miles in rough seas and at more than 13.5 miles in calm seas". Their creation was an answer to the incursion of foreign submarines in Swedish waters in the mid-eighties.
The corvettes are designed to travel at more than 35 knots in between the many beautiful islands that populate Sweden's shallow coast, thanks to waterjets-made by Rolls-Royce subsidiary Kamewa-that reduce their draft. Their mission will be to quickly patrol their territorial waters while hunting for enemy submarines and other ships.
While I prefer to travel the Swedish coast on a sailing ship, I wouldn't mind getting a quick surf on these things when they enter in service at the end of this year (as they are probably staffed with non-stealth blonde valkyries.)
Another secret revealed. Now We'll have to kill you!
With all due respect, I consider this Swedish construction as the most fearful evidence of Viking competence in naval engineering during recent years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khaa3y0i87s
- Even makes me feel afraid of Sweden as a Swede.
But on the other hand, imagine what a school of these, silently sneaking up on a nation like Iran, could accomplish.
All it takes is BHO’s signature on the Kyoto treaty :):):) and both brain halves of Western Civilization can start cooperating again!!
Enough of your non-sense.
I'm sorry that you have absolutely no understanding, what so ever, of the concept of camouflage used in military applications.
If you had any sense, you would research the issue.....but no, you choose to flap lips instead.
Now STFU.
"Big deal! The US elected a stealth socialist for President! Top that!"
With all due respect, I consider this Swedish construction as the most fearful evidence of Viking competence in naval engineering during recent years:The A-19 also has one heck of a sonar too, the CSU-90. I know, I helped make it.
“The A-19 also has one heck of a sonar too, the CSU-90. I know, I helped make it.”
- Hats off!
By the way, whether you are Australian born or not, I wish to express sympathy on the behalf of Sweden and the rest of Europe concerning the dreadful fires that recently have plagued a your part of the world.
We care.
“... there are not surviving Civil War era records of her sonar, and infrared signature, and radar cross section tests results.” Um, because there were no signatures ... perfecto!
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