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[andyelliott]

The James Bond movie "Tomorrow Never Dies" features an exact replica Sea Shadow Stealth Ship which the villain uses to launch ridiculous drill head torpedoes at Navy ships in the South China Sea.

[Werrf]

The _Zumwalt_ -class failed mostly because it relied on way too many new, untested technologies all at once. Meanwhile other ships, like the Type 45 destroyer of the Royal Navy, have also incorporated stealth lessons from the _Sea Shadow_ quite successfully.

[erasmus_locke]

It still allowed us to learn a lot and factor the knowledge gained into the production of future ships. Even if they aren't quite as stealthy.

[nzxt]

Sweden has had visby class stealth corvettes since the begining of the 2000s, 1991 they had the HSwMS Smyge was an experimenta stealtl ship Swedish Navy used to test stealth technology, launched in 1991. was used while planning the Visby-class corvettes.

[sebastien]

It turns out the RCS of the Sea Shadow was "to low" Its RCS was much lower than the sea scatter caused by the waves. So a radar could not detect Sea Shadow but because the waves reflection was much higher than the Sea Shadow. The Sea Shadow appeared as a slow moving hole in the water in the middle of sea clutter! To much of a good thing.

[Bellthorian]

The Sea Shadow was just a technology demonstrator. It was never intended to be a in service ship.

[martinkasper]

Pentagon: Where is our stealth ship?
Navy: we can't find it anymore...🤣

[Scorpio.]

February 2005, I was on a week long field trip to San Diego, and as I was taking a tour of the USS Nimitz we saw the Sea Shadow go past... really cool...

[fahrenbryant]

The sea shadow is my favourite ship in the world, shame it was scrapped

[WhiteJarrah]

The inspiration for the stealth ship in _Tomorrow Never Dies._

[hackmind]

I still remember the Popular Mechanics article about this ship. The paints were fantastic, launching anti-ship missiles vertically.
And a few issues later also a very small article about the swedish Smyge with a picture of the craft.

[aardque]

So cool to see so many shots of the thing in the San Francisco Bay, I grew up there and in those days it was in the "secret" hangar over by Treasure Island. Later after I moved to the Gorge on the Oregon Washington border, they brought a different one up here for "stealth testing, " because the Gorge is so deep we often can't even get Sirius radio. This one was semi submergible and super fast. I managed to see the thing from up on Underwood Mountain, on the highway between White Salmon and Willard. It threw up the biggest rooster tail I'd even seen.

[zeberto]

The inspiration for the stealth boat from Tomorrow Never Dies

[capnthepeafarmer]

The Hughes barge was actually used to transfer the submarine capture vehicle into the moon pool of the Hughes Glomar Explorer. It didn't do any sub capture itself. It was merely used as a secretive transfer barge.

[tibrokillen]

I believe the Swedish Navy got some stealth ships, the Visby-class should be a stealth ship

[TomFynn]

"So, how stealthy is our new ship?"
"I'll tell you when we've found the damn thing."

[UkraineWarAwareness]

The problem with the Zumwalt Class Destroyer (most expensive Destroyer in the world) is that the West needs Destroyers as the minimal class to launch Tomahawk Cruise Missiles. Russia on the other hand, can fire their equally devastating Kh-101 Kalibr Cruise Missile from Corvettes, which the Russian's claim to have "Stealth Features". I don't know about those claims, but I know a Corvette is harder to spot than a Destroyer.
I think the main issue is Cost for the Zumwalt class, same as why we're not going to be building any more Gerald Ford class aircraft carrier's (also most expensive in the world plus maintenance). Despite our US Military budget being higher than the world combined, a big chunk of that actually goes missing, and into projects that get costlier and delayed (such as the US Hypersonic Dark Eagle Project which again just got delayed).

[JohnAnderson-ftkf]

It was so cool to see this ship everyday in the Suisun Bay here in California. Just as cool is that it was in a Howard Hugh's drydock boat. Unfortunately I believe both have been sent off to be scrapped.

[Miamcoline]

Very cool. I love how its super top secret and the engineer brings his two little boys and takes pictures! 😂