Message posted by Richard on May 09, 2000 at 07:09:05 EST:
Magoo, The British have also got a design for stealth incorporating faceted design for radar and also a mist spray to evade IIR. also, the brand new tri-maran Destroyer of the Royal Navywhich is in its last protoype completion stage is stealth. Just for the record, the Royal Navies old Upholder class SSK's (Diesel /Electric) subs were and still are the quietest subs around. We have just sold them all to Canada. Swiftsure are very very quiet and fast SSN's. Subs like Magoo said, are the ultimate stealth boat. Nothing can beat them at the moment or in the 'near' future. I remember also that a Los Angeles Class and Akula Class hit each others hulls as a result of who could be the most stealthy at there innitial encounter. Richard
The mist shrouds the Destroyer in cold spray to evade the Infra-red sensors of another ship or aircraft.
The New Carriers to hold over 50 aircraft for the Royal Navy are also consdered to be a stealth design, some designs are even of the Tri-maran design!!
The Russian subs are extremely fast however when putting the pedal to the metal(accelerating) they could be heard by British and American sonar some 'THOUSANDS' of miles away.
I saw once in a record of sonar detection that a British laid sonar sensor in the Denmark Straight heard a Russian Alpha class(the fastest in the world) accelerate some 5000 miles away. Whether or not that official statement is true is undetermined...
The Russian Alpha and Akula class were the most feared boats out there, they made passes under the NATO fleet daily
In one such 'incident' a russian Alpha Class SSN sped at nearly 47kts DIVED under a USNavy CVN(Nuclear powered Carrier) and her Task Group and the Americans couldnt do anything about it. They failed the ASW sweep just like they did in the China Sea recently(a few years ago) when a Chinese Zian Class Sub got WELL within firing range of the Carrier Kitty Hawk in the south China Sea.
Something that the 5000+ crew on board got slightly miffed about as you can imagine.
I remember seeing footage of the SeaHawks scouting for the sub, and they could find it until it was too late.
they both detected each other in the Atlantic and they both took evasive stealth action, so much so that they could no longer 'hear' each other the result was they went side-on to each other and collided.
That incident happens all the time and we never hear about it. Subs collided in the cold war was probably a common thing, and the result of some sinkings no doubt.
In Reply to: Re: Boats posted by Magoo on May 08, 2000 at 18:23:23 EST:
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