Unique stealth ship put up for auction

The US Navy decided to sell its unique warship Sea Shadow, which is known as the first and so far the only invisible ship in the world (similar to the stealth aircraft), reports The Daily Mail.

The Americans began work on the ship in 1982 under a tight curtain of secrecy. Developed a new ship ordered the company DARPA, the customer made the Pentagon. In total, Sea Shadow spent about $ 190 million, the launch took place in 1985 year.

Due to its unique design, Sea Shadow can not be detected using radar. The vessel weighs 563 tons, its length is 50 meters, and width - 21 meter. Due to its irregular shape, Sea Shadow is particularly resistant to storms. The vessel can reach speeds up to 14 nodes.

The unique ship was used by the US Navy for various tests, primarily the "stealth" technology in the maritime business. In addition, naval sailors tried to find out with the help of Sea Shadow, to what extent they could reduce the number of crew members and replace them with automatic systems. Therefore, given the size of the vessel, it was designed only for 12 team members and was not intended for real missions.

In 1993, the US Navy was the first to demonstrate Sea Shadow to the general public. The ship made a strong impression, and after a few years, filmmakers built a copy of the vessel for filming one of the parts of the bondian "Tomorrow Will Never Die Never." She came out in 1997 year. In the film, the ship belonged to the main villain, media magnate Eliot Carver, who with his help tried to provoke a military conflict with China.

In 2006, Mr. Sea Shadow was written off and sent to dock. For several years, the Navy tried to find a museum that would agree to purchase a ship, but did not succeed. As a result, a unique ship was put up for auction at GSA Auctions, where they sell decommissioned military equipment. Bidding will end on May 4, the initial price is only $ 10 thousand (currently, the lot is being traded at a price of more than $ 100 thousand). The buyer is invited to put Sea Shadow on scrap.

Comments

[YARY]

This is the case when you need to take!
I had a dispute here about a UAV with one narrow-minded subject, about the purchase of a UAV by Zakordon. I was against (and will) but, in this particular case, it is necessary to take. And how with "brick" - to disassemble into molecules, to "see" their direction of thought!

[alex-defensor]

Greetings YARY.

Guys ... well ... and ladies, of course !!! Let's all throw off (site users) and buy this ship.

Since it is invisible to radars, we will be on it no visa swim to Europe and the USA ...

PS By the way, precisely for the same reasons, a Colombian drug lord may well be interested in such a ship.

[Aleksey67]

Quote: Ardent

This is the case when you need to take!

If you read the full terms of the purchase, then there will be another desire DO NOT TAKE!!!

The initial cost of the ship is only about 100 thousand dollars. The new owner will have to fulfill only one condition - “Neutralize the ship and put it into scrap” before moving outside the United States.

For a long time, the ship was used to test new technologies, but in 2006 it was decommissioned, and since then it has been gathering dust on the docks. Representatives of the Navy unsuccessfully tried to find a museum ready to accept Sea Shadow, but in the end decided to write off the ship for scrap.

Bidding is held on the GS Auctions online site, an analogue of eBay, where decommissioned military equipment is presented. Bets are accepted until May 4

[Норд]

Quote: "Therefore, given the significant size of the vessel, it was designed for only 12 crew members ..."

50 meters - significant size. Laughed. Modern supertankers with a length of 250 meters have a crew of 16-28 people and no one considers this the greatest achievement.
Even American museums do not take this masterpiece. What else to talk about.

[Paratov]

We must buy and give Colombian drug mafia, let them carry cocaine to America !!!

[Neighbor]

So - the ship is invisible - then why do I see it in PHOTO?
Is there any deception again?
Joke!
Quote Apasus: The Chinese will definitely buy!

[almost demobil]

This amers sure. that he is not visible. In their opinion, the f-117 is not visible, but we can see it perfectly in the meter range radar. which is in every radar unit.

[They <b>accompany you</b>]

Abramovich’s yacht is twice as long

[Prophet Alyosha]

Yes, you need to buy, and not just for the purpose of research, after a technical analysis, do something humiliating and mocking for the United States from their super-ship (like a public toilet under a star-striped flag)!

[755962]

I am romantic...

[Gromila78]

All secret mechanisms (probably the cover) will be demounted before the sale, so why the heck it is not needed, a catamaran with an acceleration of 14 knots, probably repairing it will cost twice as much as buying it

[Tersky]

Quote: Ardent

This is the case when you need to take!

Good day, Andrey! Well, why the hell to us is this floating coffin? Everything that could be extracted from there was removed and disposed of for a long time, and we have enough scrap metal in Russia, thank God not only the dashing 90 were exported to China. You need to build your own, and much better ..

[Alexander Romanov]

That case when you need to take. Oh no, I won’t take it; what for do I have a kayak? I’ll wait when they sell 22, fly fishing

[ANTURAG]

Can't even clowns sell such a "unique ship"

[esaul]

Quote: ANTURAG

Can't even clowns sell such a "unique ship"

Igor, greetings Yes, because, besides the word "unique", there is, by and large, no nichrome in it - the money for its construction has long been sawn and drunk, and the expediency of building such chests was not found ...

[kasper]

If it were so unique, it would not be sold.

[esaul]

Quote: kasper

If it were so unique, it would not be sold

Eugene, welcome. A conclusion giving a full explanation of this whole clowning!

[APASUS]

The Chinese will definitely buy! And then around the world they will push clones

[taseka]

198 lyamov to 100 thousand - a good ratio - I offer Amers to continue to act in this spirit!

[Gocha kurashvili]

I completely agree with kasper s-crooks ...

[Gocha kurashvili]

I completely agree with KASPER pen dosa-swindlers still those .....

[BAT]

In my opinion, we also have such ships. At least there were. I read somewhere that there is. And the development was carried out very intensively, but with a drunken fight at the request of the overseas regional committee, everything turned off ...
And what about the amers is so bad that they began to sell such ships under the hammer?

[marline]

the idea from the very beginning was stupid for $ 195 million - it is obvious that the submarine is much more practical for covert movement.

the bottom of this freak (under water) has two cylindrical hulls from small submarines, with screws.
That is, these are actually two submarines, which were welded together with a L bridge and deprived of the opportunity to dive.

[raf]

It is not correct to say: "the ship is invisible", or rather "stealthy"! Even birds can be seen on the radars if they are flying in a large flock! And even more so, a metal ship will be visible!

[Alexei]

And even more correct to say - "nafig is not necessary."

[raf]

Alexej there is a joke on this subject: A man walked along the street, found some kind of fool, worth watching. Beautiful mmm, don’t turn your eyes away! All shimmers, glitters. A man was upset, such a good thing, it is a pity that FIG is not needed!

[Odinplys]

To take ... or not to take ... That is the question ...)))
Do not sell advanced technologies in Russia ... it was not long ago said ....

[wolk71]

the ship is visible, and that's about to sell, not justified.

[Alexei]

Wow, it functions: I look at the photo and I don't see shit. I came up with names for ships of this type: "Senseless", "", "Damaged" and "Unpromising". And what, no one will see anyway.

[Aleksey67]

Quote: Alexej

Wow, it functions: I look at the photo and don’t see nichrome.

"And the king is naked" (c)

[esaul]

Quote: Alexej

I came up with names for ships of this type: "Senseless", "", "Damaged" and "Unpromising". And what, no one will see anyway.

Alex, happy holiday! Post -

[Alexei]

Thank you Valery and you too.

[dmitrich]

nonsense, if he or their stealth would be invisible they had long been in our waters and the sky.

[MoNah535]

Something the speed for a "super-ship" is not great .... I would even say - VERY not great :))) Only 14 knots

Our would put on hydrofoils and got 50+ nodes :))

[Dok-stavros]

After such messages, it’s warm to the soul. It is to what extent you need to go to get the super secret national pride, albeit a BU, put under the hammer. It can only be bought by a reckless fan of bandiana -007. At worst, they would give it to their ally in the Caucasus, Mishiko.

[Aleksey67]

Quote: Dok-Stavros

would give to their ally in the Caucasus, Mishiko.

They know that Mishiko will immediately stick a Georgian drone on top and announce that Georgia now has its own aircraft carrier

[esaul]

Guys! I read the comments - got a fucking charge of optimism and humor! Figs, what kind of infection will prevail against a people with such a sense of humor! all a happy holiday!

[Stasi.]

All these invisible ships, as well as planes and so on, are complete crap. On the one hand, the invisibility was created by the Americans as part of the strategy of the first paralyzing strike. But over time, it turned out that the vaunted invisibles are not so invisible. The same "Stealths" were perfectly spotted by outdated radars in Yugoslavia and were shot down. But there is another method of detecting invisible people - the Prangishvili location method. This location method was developed back in the USSR. Its essence is to detect not the flying object itself, but the trail that it leaves. Using this method of location, it is possible to detect this invisibility at sea, because it cannot swim completely without a trace. Even during the war, our North Sea sailors used the method of finding enemy convoys on the trail. And very successful. So the Yankees can get away with their invisibility as much as they want, let them throw money down the drain. And we will try to implement Prangishvili's method in our radar.

[AK-74-1]

Not a ship, but props and profanation. In general, I am surprised at amers. Bungling is a delusional project. We got money. Did something. And after that, our leadership is accused of corruption. Rave. Our bribe-takers and embezzlers against the background of the "democratic riffraff" are an example of decency.

[Scorpio 83]

Another unnecessary nomenclature in the list of the us army, I like this alignment to my liking, I need to put them next to f-22)))

[sergskak]

Why, girls Prokhorov ride just right. Jo ship!

[Uralean]

sergskakYou won’t put girls there as much as he brought to Courchevel ... Only 12 people in capacity - not enough for him - however.

[sergskak]

Inside in turn, and the rest, so to speak, "on the armor."

[Karabin]

The ship for our military department is useless, because everything that was of interest was removed from it. As for the funds spent on this development, I do not consider them to be wasted for 2 reasons: 1st — any, even ultimately unsuccessful, major development gives impetus to the development of individual topics where success is entirely possible; The second and main, pindosy, owning a printing press for the production of still global money, can afford such projects.

[They <b>accompany you</b>]

I agree to the same price is ridiculous
like a hollywood movie
it is on such "cans" that you can test your theories and computer models in metal

[lotus04]

If it was anything worthwhile "thing", then hell they would put it up for sale !!!

[maksim]

I read about this tin can in the "popular mechanics" in 2008

[Bravo]

well said "tin can"

[patriot2]

Amer again looking for fools !?

[Vanek]

Buy it for (to start 100 tyr.) Then for scrap.

The buyer is invited to put Sea Shadow for scrap.

Well crazy what you take!

[Captain Vrungel]

Delivery for cutting and cutting for scrap will cost more than the amount received for this. Plus purchase costs.

[oldmen1973]

Hurray ... Along the way, the Serdyukovs have already reached America! Otherwise, where does such knowledge of Russian literature come from - the Internet attributes the phrase "Let's beat swords into plowshares" to the poet Baratynsky (I haven't read it myself)

[Uncle]

I thought only we saw a budget. Maybe so? Maybe we are straining in vain that our money is being pulled away?