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From: arthur@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur Leung)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: stealth boats(?)
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Date: 18 Mar 91 00:20:36 GMT
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From: arthur@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur Leung)
tkogoma%triton.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu (Gym Z. Quirk) writes:

>Does anybody know how the radar signature of a Pegassus class PHM
>compares with a small FF?  As I recall, they are armed with 4 (or 8?)
>harpoons in quad launchers...

according to an article in the US Naval Institute Proceedings,
the PHM has a radar signature of a helicopter :o).  it moves
faster than the radar operator thinks a boat should move.

more seriously, i believe that there was a boat being designed
for the special forces (SEALs) that was to have relatively
stealthy characteristics.  it was cancelled for a variety of
reasons, one of which was it's IR signature was very large.

over the past year, there have been a few articles in the USNI
Proceedings about stealifying major combatants.  there was much
criticism about how unstealty current ships are - the super-structure,
cranes, antennas, etc have very large radar crosssections.

-- arthur