How stealthy Type 83 was likely to be

How much stealth would Type 83 have incorporated before the program changed?

It would have been shaped for appropriate low observability, while preserving the firepower and resilience required of a carrier-group air-defence ship.

Type 83 concepts are described as using low-observable shaping broadly comparable to Type 26 and Type 45. Its intended carrier-group air-defence task required firepower and the ability to keep fighting against threats arriving from several directions. Further signature reduction could consume money and capability needed for that role. Zumwalt's littoral design choices are compared with the oceanic Arleigh Burke role. Clarke still favours an adapted Zumwalt, despite explaining why a Burke-like ship could appear the more straightforward fit.