A stealth ship is a ship that employs stealth technology construction techniques in an effort to make it harder to detect by one or more of radar, visual, sonar, and infrared methods.
The Type 45 Royal Navy destroyer. Examples of stealthy ships.
Detail of Forbin, a modern frigate of the French navy. The faceted appearance reduces radar cross-section for stealth.
US Navy Sea Shadow (IX-529) uses both a tumblehome hull and SWATH to reduce its radar return. But fully stealth ship designs are rare.
French frigate Surcouf of the La Fayette class
Stealth technology, also termed low observable technology, is a sub-discipline of military tactics and passive and active electronic countermeasures, which covers a range of methods used to make personnel, aircraft, ships, submarines, missiles, satellites, and ground vehicles less visible to radar, infrared, sonar and other detection methods. It corresponds to military camouflage for these parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
F-117 stealth aircraft
PL-01 stealth tank
Surcouf French stealth frigate
The F-35 Lightning II offers better stealthy features (such as this landing gear door) than prior American multi-role fighters, such as the F-16 Fighting Falcon