# What would a Stealth Air Craft Carrier look like?

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**Created:** [March 7, 2011, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-a-stealth-air-craft-carrier-look-like/573758 "2011-03-07T06:29:13Z")\
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> [@Morgenstern](#):
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> I imagine future technology will render stealth technology obsolete. Whether it be advanced real time spy recon satellites, sound, magnetic or exhaust sensing technology, my guess is that stealth will be overcome before long.

Wouldn’t it just be an arms race between new detection technologies and new stealth technologies?

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Submarines carrying aircraft have been around a long time. Some were even built.

> **[Submarine aircraft carrier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_aircraft_carrier)**
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> A submarine aircraft carrier is a submarine equipped with aircraft for observation or attack missions. These submarines saw their most extensive use during World War II, although their operational significance remained rather small. The most famous of them were the Japanese I-400-class submarines and the French submarine Surcouf, although small numbers of similar craft were built for other nations' navies as well.
> Most operational submarine aircraft carriers, with the exception of the I-400 and ...

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**Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-a-stealth-air-craft-carrier-look-like/573758/23 "2011-03-08T20:06:36Z")

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> [@Whack-a-Mole](#):
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> Submarines carrying aircraft have been around a long time. Some were even built.
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> [Submarine aircraft carrier - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_aircraft_carrier)

At that point you might as well go with this: [Flying submarine - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_submarine)

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