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From: klewis@mwunix.mitre.org (Keith Lewis)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Stealth boats(?)
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.034215.25177@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 03:42:15 GMT
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From: klewis@mwunix.mitre.org (Keith Lewis)
In article <1991Mar12.233406.1012@cbnews.att.com> areg@ifi.uio.no (Are Leif Garn}sjordet) writes:
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>Have anybody thought about stealth boats ? We were having a few beers
>one night and discussed the possibility of fast patrolboats armed
>with exocet/harpoon/pingvin rockets.

It *might* be possible to hide a boat from radar, but it's a whole new
can o' worms to try to hide it from sonar.

High speed boats tend to be loud and thus particularly vulnerable to
passive sonar.

>Can someone imagine how much havoc some stealth boats could do to one
>of the large carrier-groups.

The boat would have to outrun submarine-launched torpedos.  Does anybody
out there have a Jane's with torpedo speeds?

A more "stealthy" boat would be the Russian mini-sub.  A few years back
they were discovered when one became disabled within Sweden's 3-mile 
limit, I believe.

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