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Balancing stealth and electronic warfare in the Baltic

A Baltic corvette benefits from reduced signatures, but electronic countermeasures offer more flexibility than treating stealth as the whole defensive system.

Question

Should a Baltic corvette prioritise stealth?

Short answer

Use some stealth, but pair it with substantial electronic countermeasures rather than relying on low observability alone.

Notes

Ship stealth becomes a one-trick answer when designers rely on it alone. A Baltic combatant still benefits from lowering signatures in crowded littoral waters, combined with a stronger electronic-countermeasures suite. The mixed approach lets the ship complicate detection while also deceiving, disrupting, or degrading the systems trying to target it.