Like the Sea Shadow, Carver's stealth ship uses the Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull, or SWATH, design. The design of the ship was partly based on the Sea Shadow (IX-529) - an experimental stealth ship built by Lockheed for the United States Navy. The Sea Shadow is an experimental stealth ship built by Lockheed for the US Navy. They were monitored from a security station on the bridge. Security cameras - The ship's sea-level pontoon entrance hatches were watched over by five concealed closed-circuit television cameras. Sabotaged by 007, the weapon's premature detonation destroyed the vessel. To reduce its radar signature, the launchers were concealed behind sliding hatches when not in use.Ĭruise missile gantry - A missile gantry was rigged in the centre of the ship for launching a stolen British cruise missile into the Chinese capital, Beijing. Surface-to-air missiles - The stealth ship was armed with a pair of internally-mounted SAM launchers on its port and starboard sides, each with two missiles.
Lowered between the ship's pontoons by crane, the weapon was launched and remotely controlled from a station on the bridge by crewman Timblin. Sea drill - The sea drill or "sea-vac" was a wire-guided torpedo drill with rotary cutters capable of cutting through a ship's hull. Bond traps Stamper using the missile firing mechanism and dives to save Wai Lin as the missile explodes, destroying the ship and killing Stamper. As Bond attempts to sabotage the missile, Stamper appears and fights him. While Wai Lin disables the engines, Bond goes after the missile. During the battle, 007 detonates an improvised explosive device, damaging the ship's hull, rendering it visible to radar and vulnerable to a subsequent Royal Navy attack. Several days later, Bond and his Chinese counterpart, Wai Lin, find Carver's stealth ship in Ha Long Bay and board it to prevent him firing the stolen British cruise missile at Beijing. Afterwards, Stamper's men shot down a Chinese J-7 fighter jet sent to investigate the British presence, and killed the Devonshire survivors with Chinese weaponry. Stamper, sank the frigate with a sea drill and stole one of its cruise missiles.
The Stealth Ship is spotted on night vision.Īfter sending the British frigate HMS Devonshire off-course into Chinese-held waters in the South China Sea, the stealth ship, commanded by Captain Scott under Carver's right-hand man Mr. With an assumed cruising speed of around 30 knots, the stealth ship was capable of 48 knots. Sliding bay doors on the ship's port, starboard and underside - normally flush with its streamlined profile - are opened to expose the craft's weapons systems, which are concealed inside the ship when not in use. The craft's angular design and radar-absorbent materials were designed to significantly reduce its radar signature. The vessel was constructed from stealth materials stolen from a Chinese military base by Carver's Chinese co-conspirator, General Chang and was secretly docked (and presumably constructed) in Ha Long Bay in northeast Vietnam, at the most isolated of thirty six harbors and inlets under Chang's control. Built prior to the events of the film, Elliot Carver's almost undetectable stealth ship was created with the sole purpose of provoking conflict between the United Kingdom and China.