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Old 08-22-2017, 13:05   #26
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Originally Posted by Old Dog New Trick View Post
Don't these destroyers have ~300 crew members?

Doing some reading just now about these Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyers is they are built with a very low surface radar signature. I wonder if because the navy is (actually) running "ghost ships" the radar on merchant ships are not seeing the warships in their path?

Being invisible cuts both ways!
Not a bad perspective, sir, but Arliegh Burke's are steel and don't have that sort of radar cross section mitigation. The new Zumwalt DDG is another matter.
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