# What to name a stealth boat? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 1, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-name-a-stealth-boat/620540 "2012-05-01T18:01:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-name-a-stealth-boat/620540/41 "2012-05-05T14:37:24Z")
What you want is to take this thing out and paint it in [dazzle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage). Old AND new school… > [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > A part of what makes stealth vehicles stealthy is the way they are constructed. Plus, there aren’t exactly a lot of legal private-citizen uses for a stealth ship. The critical part ISTM would be any use of exotic materials or special classified fabrication/assembly techniques for the materials or for the EM-signature shielding, and a lot of those would be structural so you want to prevent it from being reverse-engineered by removing as much as you can then then chopping up the mounting hardwar so it’s hard to tell how it was properly installed. The general _architecture_ part of stealth for this rig OTOH would not be strictly state of the art anymore, a number of other navies have stealth type vessels by now (Examples from such as [Sweden](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:K32_HMS_Helsingborg_Anchored-of-Gotska-Sandoen_cropped.jpg), [France](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FS_Surcouf.jpg), even Mexico has a half dozen moderately stealthed-up Ocean Patrol Vessels. BTW notice that when you go from development model to a real fighting vessel, it’s pretty darn hard to maintain full stealth and still be able to do things like, y’know, look out and shoot out. For one thing at the very least you want your radars up on a superstructure to give you range, and then they become a big flashing beacon on your position). ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-name-a-stealth-boat/620540/42 "2012-05-05T22:33:32Z")
Revenant ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-name-a-stealth-boat/620540/43 "2012-05-07T20:49:07Z")
Scrap. ---
**Author:** ![Cryptic\_C62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cryptic\_C62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cryptic_C62)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-name-a-stealth-boat/620540/44 "2012-05-08T13:56:20Z")
The Baller Crawler. I’ve always wanted to give that name to a vehicle. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-name-a-stealth-boat/620540/45 "2012-05-08T14:26:52Z")
Nightboat, the Crime Solving Boat. ---
**Author:** ![Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashley_Pomeroy)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-name-a-stealth-boat/620540/46 "2012-05-08T17:18:09Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Swim Shady I think this one deserves more love. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-name-a-stealth-boat/620540/47 "2012-05-08T18:13:29Z")
The Imminent Collision ---
**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-name-a-stealth-boat/620540/48 "2012-05-08T18:44:47Z")
“DAAA-dum . . . DAAA-dum . . . daa-dum-da-dum-daa-dum-da-dum, etc.” Not sure the entire thing would fit on the hull. How about a two-fer - would work best for a surveillance boat: “The SEA-WARD, aka The Whispering Eye” (apologies to Arrested Development and Role Models) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-name-a-stealth-boat/620540.md?page=2)