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From: mcguire@cs.tamu.edu (Tim McGuire)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Stealth boats(?)
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Date: 14 Mar 91 03:39:37 GMT
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From: mcguire@cs.tamu.edu (Tim McGuire)


areg@ifi.uio.no (Are Leif Garn}sjordet) writes:
>Have anybody thought about stealth boats? 
>Can someone imagine how much havoc some stealth boats could do to one
>of the large carrier-groups.

The recent PBS program (I believe it was on NOVA) on stealth technology
showed new ship designs for limiting the the radar signature of large
ships.  I recall that a major problem is trying to "stealthify" the
ship's infrared emissions.  Do y'all have access to NOVA in Norway? 

Tim McGuire
mcguire@cs.tamu.edu