..you better send this ship out with a bunch of fishing boats otherwise all you have to do is look for a radar signature the size of a fishing boat.
Or simply look for a fishing boat that is throwing off more electronic emissions through it's radar searches than a third of Singapore. Once that X-band ESA starts throwing off juice it will be quite difficult to pass that off as some sun-and-salt scarred fisherman's skiff trying to nab some tuna.
Now, back in 2007 the following was said during a congress discussion on the development of a new cruiser based on the stealthy Zummwalt hull: 'The anti-missile cruiser also wouldn’t require the high level of stealth provided by the Zumwalt’s tumblehome hull, analysts said, since the ship would be radiating its radars to search for missiles. Returning to a more conventional, flared-bow hull form would free designers from worries about overloading the untried tumblehome hull.'
So, since the Zummy has a pretty nice X-band radar, and using the radar means that it would be detected (this is not some small aircraft radar that can use LPI), and looking at what was said, does this mean the Zummy will not be using any active sensors and depending only on passive and/or third party sensors, switching it's big @$$ radar only when necessary? And if that's the case, does it mean if something (say an actual fishing boat with a Klub missile hidden in it that is in a fleet of other fishing boats 30 miles away from the Zummy) would have a chance, no matter how small, of taking out a billion dollar boat?
Rhetoric question, but it does seem that the whole 'stealthy' aspect that makes it seem like some innocent fishing boat does not make sense if it is radiating like a freakin' Death-Star.