Stealth ship facts for kids

The U.S. Navy's Sea Shadow (IX-529)

A stealth ship is a ship which employs stealth technology construction techniques in an effort to ensure that it is harder to detect by one or more of radar, visual, sonar, and infrared methods.

These techniques borrow from stealth aircraft technology, although some aspects such as wake and acoustic signature reduction (Acoustic quieting) are unique to stealth ships' design. Though radar cross-section (RCS) reduction is a fairly new concept many other forms of masking a ship have existed for centuries or even millennia.

Images for kids

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  USS Zumwalt after floating out of drydock, 28 October 2013

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  French frigate Surcouf of the La Fayette class

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  HSwMS Helsingborg, one of the Swedish Navy's Visby-class corvettes

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  Type 055 destroyer People's Liberation Army Navy destroyer

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  Dutch frigate Evertsen of the De Zeven Provinciën class

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  Type 45 Royal Navy destroyer

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  Horizon-class frigate of the French Navy and Italian Navy

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  Kyan Sittha-class frigate, UMS Sinbyushin of Myanmar Navy

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  INS Kolkata, lead ship of her class

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  German Braunschweig-class corvette

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