Buy This Stealth Ship Moored In Suisun Bay!

www.defensetech.org reports the U.S. Navy's original stealth ship -- you heard that right -- is being auctioned off to the highest bidder from its new home in the Suisun Bay ghost fleet. The winning bidder has to dismantle the ship, though, as part of the deal. The price is reported to be more than $100,000 already.

A big shout out to one of our loyal readers in Las Vegas, NV -- yup, you heard me right again -- for giving us the scoop on this story.

So what do you do with the spare parts of a stealth ship? Well, one reader on slashdot.org, which carried the link to the story, suggested: Hey, it's a stealth ship. Tell the government that you've dismantled it, then sail it away right in front of the coast guard. They won't suspect a thing.

The ship is housed in its floating dry dock, called the Hughes Mining Barge.

According to Wikipedia:

The Hughes Mining Barge, or HMB-1, is a submersible barge about 99 m (324 ft) long, 32 m (106 ft) wide, and more than 27 m (90 ft) tall. The HMB-1 was originally developed as part of Project Azorian (more widely, but erroneously, known as "Project Jennifer"), the top-secret effort mounted by the Central Intelligence Agency to salvage the remains of the Soviet submarine K-129 from the ocean floor. The HMB-1 was designed to be submerged under the Glomar Explorer to conceal any salvaged remains from Soviet observers.[1]

So who's doing the auction you might ask? It's the scandal-plagued GSA.