You Could Own the Sea Shadow Stealth Ship and Historic CIA Barge for a Mere $100,420
Warm up your credit cards because Uncle Sam is having a garage sale! For the low, low price of $100,420, you could be the proud owner of the Sea Shadow prototype stealth ship! And that’s not all — by ponying up all that cash, you’ll also be agreeing to take possession of the Hughes Mining Barge (HMB-1), which was reportedly built to hide the CIA’s recovery of the downed Soviet submarine K-129. Two great pieces of outdated top secret history for the price of one!
http://www.geekosystem.com/sea-shadow-for-sale/
That's the real shocker here, man, they're kidding us. I'm disappoint.THE EX-SEA SHADOW SHALL BE DISPOSED OF BY COMPLETELY DISMANTLING AND SCRAPPING WITHIN THE U.S.A. DISMANTILING IS DEFINED AS REDUCING THE PROPERTY SUCH AS IT HAS NO VALUE EXCEPT FOR ITS BASIC MATERIAL CONTENT.
The Sea Shadow and HMB are keeping historic company. The USS Iowa is moored in the same group.
Whyyyyy? Why cannot we buy it and keep it intact?
Well, for that price the shelter could be put into commercial service as a small floating dry-dock. It would need some conversion (take the roof off for starters) and apparently a lot of repairs, but that purchase price leaves a lot of room to invest in those things and still expect a good profit.
As for the Sea Shadow, I have several ideas;
1- Finish out the interior as a small yacht (I believe it is just a hollow shell)
2- Leave it as is and paint a COBRA symbol on the side (ie: G.I. Joe)
3- Call it a SEAL Insertion Vehicle (SIV) and lease it back to the Navy for a million bucks a month.
4- Leave it as is and paint a Galactic Empire symbol on the side (ie: Star Wars)
5- Paint it gray, add gun ports and cannons down the sides. Install a smoke stack on the roof and hoist the Stars-n-Bars over her to be the coolest Civil War re-enactor in the country with your own ironclad.
Hell with that Shadow, I want the Battleship.
That battleship would be the best party ship ever, you could sail up to Somalia and taunt the **** out of some mo****ers
The Iowa is now gone
Yeah the Iowa is in Richmond, Ca right now, just went and checked it out the other day actually.Originally Posted by jtv3062
So that's how Iran are going to get within 3 miles of NY.
Someone, out bid them, quick!
surely they would leave it intact for a museum piece etc...
She will be 90 day battle ready. So she will not be dismantled in any way. She will be getting a new teak deck also with donated money.
Another floating "casino" to be purchased by an unnamed Chinese "businessman"?
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