Sea Shadow – Digital Tour

2023-01-15 04:05:43

TOUR OF SEA SHADOW (IX-529)

Sea Shadow inside HMB-1, 2011

Sea Shadow was a take a look at craft developed beneath a mixed program by the Protection Superior Analysis Initiatives Company (DARPA), the U.S. Navy, and Lockheed Missiles and Area Firm (LMSC). Its objective was to discover a wide range of new applied sciences for army floor ships, these included automated ship management, Small Waterplane Space Twin Hull (SWATH) benefits, automation for diminished manning, tough climate seakeeping enhancements with stabilizer and canard, and radar and sonar signature management. She was later used as a take a look at platform for superior fight programs prototypes that emphasised passive (no energetic radar) identification and focusing on. She was at all times a take a look at platform and by no means armed as a combatant.

To maintain Sea Shadow out of the general public eye, she was constructed inside HMB-1 and delivered in March of 1985. Evening checks had been carried out in 1985 and 1986 off the Santa Cruz Islands in Southern California with the barge holding the ship beneath cowl for repairs and replenishment throughout daylight. The checks had been suspended in 1986 and never resumed till spring 1993 when the ship was unveiled for the primary time to the general public. In late 1994 the testing concluded within the San Francisco Bay, and the Sea Shadow and Hughes Mining Barge 1 had been moved to San Diego and had been docked on the thirty second Road pier. In Might of 1999 she was reactivated for added testing. She price roughly $50 million to construct and the overall take a look at program was roughly $195 million till she was stricken in 2006.

HMB-1, 2011

The Hughes Mining Barge 1, or HMB-1, is a uniquely designed submersible barge. She was initially in-built 1973 as a part of Challenge Azorian (a subset of Challenge Jennifer), the top-secret effort by the Central Intelligence Company to salvage the stays of Soviet submarine Ok-129 from the ocean ground. HMB-1 was designed to be submerged beneath the Glomar Explorer to secretly load the massive claw machine that grappled the submarine (seize automobile), and to hide the recovered submarine. In some ways her tank construction is extra just like a submarine than a traditional floating drydock.
More Information on Glomar Explorer and the way HMB-1 was designed to load Glomar Explorer.

Inside HMB-1 exhibiting Clementine, the submarine seize automobile throughout Challenge Jennifer.

After the conclusion of Challenge Azorian, HMB-1 was cleaned after which saved on the Todd Shipyard in San Francisco, CA till November, 1982. She was then towed to a LMSC facility in Redwood Metropolis, CA, the place she was considerably modified to turn into the floating drydock for the development and operations of the Sea Shadow.

Upon completion of Sea Shadow operations in 2006, HMB-1 and Sea Shadow had been moved to the Susuin Bay Reserve Fleet for storage. In 2012 HMB-1 with Sea Shadow nonetheless inside was offered to Bay Ship and Yacht in Alameda, CA. They dismantled Sea Shadow and are utilizing HMB-1 as a working ship restore drydock.

HMB-1, 2013

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