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Photo Emerges Showing Sweden's Stealthy Visby Class Corvette's Tiny Radar Signature
The ships combine a radar-deflecting physical design with composite materials and other features to achieve an impressive level of low observability.
BY JOSEPH TREVITHICK DECEMBER 5, 2019
THE WAR ZONE
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It's undeniable that the Swedish Navy's stealthy Visby class corvettes are among the coolest looking warships in service today. A picture has now emerged online that reportedly shows just how impressive the design is at reducing the vessel's radar cross-section, in addition to being simply aesthetically pleasing.
On Nov. 28, 2019, Reddit user u/Moresail posted a composite image showing one of Sweden's five Visbys approximately one and a half miles off the bow of a cargo ship that they were on, as well as a shot of the screen of their vessel's commercial Furuno X-band navigation radar. The corvette's apparent radar signature is minuscule compared to that of another commercial vessel nearby.
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