Reducing a merchant ship's signature is judged useful in the Pacific. The preferred alternative is to attack the sensors that find and track shipping. These approaches address different parts of the detection problem: one makes the vessel harder to see, while the other removes the observer's means of seeing. The preference remains a tactical judgment, with no particular sensor network or detailed campaign plan specified.
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Low-observable shipping and suppressing the sensors that find it
A tactical preference for Pacific shipping weighs reducing a vessel's visibility against destroying the sensors that could detect it.