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RYF: Stealth Warship
Posted by: GGD
Date: May 03, 2012 02:07PM


Current bid at $157,827, I wonder if some Somali Pirates would be interested.

[gsaauctions.gov]
[news.blogs.cnn.com]

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Here's your chance to own Navy stealth ship

You've got about 24 hours to get your bids in on a piece of super-cool Cold War hardware - a stealth warship the government no longer wants.

The General Services Administration is taking bids on the U.S. Navy's Sea Shadow, built by Lockheed Martin in 1983 for the Navy to test radar-evading capabilities and other weapons systems. The ship has outlived its usefulness, and the Navy is trying to unload it to avoid maintenance costs, the Los Angeles Times reports.

"It is not cost-effective for the Navy to maintain the ship in an inactive condition any longer, and the ship no longer serves any operational or research purpose," Navy spokesman Christopher Johnson told the Times. "Our only disposition option is dismantling and recycling."

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Re: RYF: Stealth Warship
Posted by: space-time
Date: May 03, 2012 02:18PM
can foreign entities bid on it? would they sell it to North Korea, China or Russia?
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Re: RYF: Stealth Warship
Posted by: Ken Sp.
Date: May 03, 2012 02:24PM
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space-time
can foreign entities bid on it? would they sell it to North Korea, China or Russia?
Or Colombian drug smugglers.
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Re: RYF: Stealth Warship
Posted by: Ken Sp.
Date: May 03, 2012 02:26PM
Inept Government IT--

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Re: RYF: Stealth Warship
Posted by: cbelt3
Date: May 03, 2012 02:35PM
Required to be scrapped. Includes the drydock equipment as well. Sorry. NO building super secret CNN type studios from which to take over the world.
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Re: RYF: Stealth Warship
Posted by: Will Collier
Date: May 03, 2012 02:35PM
My former boss (now retired) worked on that sucker back in the day. Have to remember to send him a copy of this.

The "winner" of the auction is just going to the the remains after it gets torn into scrap metal, BTW...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/03/2012 02:37PM by Will Collier.
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Re: RYF: Stealth Warship
Posted by: BernDog
Date: May 03, 2012 02:36PM
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The ex-Sea Shadow shall be disposed of by completely dismantling and scrapping within the U.S.A. Dismantling is defined as reducing the property such as it has no value except for its basic material content," read the conditions on the GSA auction site.

Aw, dang it. You guys never let me have any fun.
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Re: RYF: Stealth Warship
Posted by: cbelt3
Date: May 03, 2012 03:18PM
!But!

Nothing says you can't weld that sucker back together, RIGHT ?

PM me and I'll send you some information about welders... big grin smiley
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Re: RYF: Stealth Warship
Posted by: Racer X
Date: May 03, 2012 03:26PM
It's a little more complicated than welding the receiver back together on a demilled M3 Grease Gun.
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Re: RYF: Stealth Warship
Posted by: Ombligo
Date: May 03, 2012 04:26PM
Lot's of profit opportunities from the radar absorbing hull:

Cut it in 2x3 sections and sell the sections as police radar evaders for lead footed drivers..

Smaller pieces can be sold as techno-upgrades to the tinfoil hat brigade.

The smallest pieces can be glued to athletic cups for frequent flyers worried about
radiation at security checkpoints.


You can tell a lot about a woman by her hands...
- For example, if they are wrapped around your throat she's probably slightly upset.
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Re: RYF: Stealth Warship
Posted by: haikuman
Date: May 03, 2012 04:30PM
A lot of bids coming in from South American Farmers *(:>*


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