If I had $100,000 handy, I would bid for the Sea Shadow, the stealth address that DARPA congenital for the US Navy in 1983. It's now for auction at GSA Auctions. The aboriginal amount tag: the US Government paid $195 actor to Lockheed Martin to body it. And you get a HMB-1 Mining Barge too in the amalgamation too.
THE EX-SEA SHADOW (IX-529)
YEAR BUILT: 1983
BUILDER: LOCKHEED MARTIN
OVERALL LENGTH: 164 FEET
WATERLINE LENGTH: 118 FEET
EXTREME BEAM 68 FEET
WATERLINE BEAM: 58 FEET
MAXIMUM NAVIGATIONAL DRAFT: 15 FEET
DRAFT LIMIT: 15 FEET
LIGHT DISPLACEMENT: 499 TONS
HULL MATERIAL: STEEL HULL AND SUPERSTRUCTURE
DIESEL ELECTRIC PROPULSION SYSTEM
NUMBER OF PROPELLERS: TWO
Needless to say, this address would be absolute is you wish to be a superhero or a supervillain.
The amount will accumulate traveling up, for sure. It started at $50,000. But it will not get anywhere its aboriginal amount tag. The reason: the US Government doesn't wish you to accumulate it in its aboriginal form. If you wish to buy it, you will accept to abort it! It has to be adapted into scrap:
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.
Bah. Hey Pentagon! You are not fun. [Government Auctions via News.com.au]
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