Skunkworks stealth carrier images?

[ouroboros]

Ben Rich of the Skunkworks said something to the effect of that while working on Sea Shadow stealth ship demonstrator, they also worked up a design for a stealthy carrier, that looked like a "New age pyramid" that looked so odd, the Navy dismissed it out of hand. Have any concept art drawings or design pictures ever surfaced regarding that work?

 

[XP67_Moonbat]

Something like this?

 

[TomS]

That one was much later, part of CVX in the late 1990s. The concept Rich was talking about would have been a decade earlier.

I take Rich's naval concepts with a grain of salt. It's clear that the Skunkworks guys didn't always understand naval operations very well (see their ideas for faceted subs to counter active sonar.)

 

[Abraham Gubler]

There's this ship that appears in the background of a illustration of a Lockheed VTOL UAV.

 

[Moose]

Ben Rich of the Skunkworks said something to the effect of that while working on Sea Shadow stealth ship demonstrator, they also worked up a design for a stealthy carrier, that looked like a "New age pyramid" that looked so odd, the Navy dismissed it out of hand. Have any concept art drawings or design pictures ever surfaced regarding that work?

No beef with Ben Rich, but the Navy didn't dismiss the carrier and sub concepts LM designed with Echo because of their looks.