By Stealth (72 page)

`Absolutely.' Tweed was cleaning his glasses. 'That huge floating dock with giant lifting cranes will soon reach Jutland. It will take on board the intact
Yenan
and bring it back here for examination by experts. On top of that, poor Gaston Delvaux's new radar system has given us the means of easily detecting any such vessels or planes.'

`And you've withdrawn your resignation. End of story,' Newman said.

`Of that story, yes. The East will never now invade us by stealth.'

Addendum

WAR OF WORDS OVER 'INVISIBLE' SHIPS AND PLANES

All branches of the US Armed Forces plan to incorporate Stealth features . . . The US Navy is working on designs for Stealth cruisers and destroyers which would have no bridge and no decks and be commanded from a main interior control room, as happens on submarines.

Masts and antennae, all of which contribute to a ship's large radar cross-section, would vanish below decks. The aim, eventually, would be to produce frigates and destroyers that did not need air cover ….

Daily Telegraph, Monday, November 28, 1988
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