Radar gave a force the power to find and hit targets, whereas stealth seeks to preserve the ability to strike by avoiding detection. Both technologies belong to a longer cycle in which ships reduce their visible profile while sensors improve the enemy's capacity to locate them. Late-nineteenth-century low-freeboard warships provide an earlier attempt to reduce visibility, although machinery smoke could betray their position. Good coal and clean machinery could reduce that smoke, but concealing emissions remained difficult. Burke's ten-second maxim raises an unresolved question about training: how much immediate judgment can reasonably be demanded when new systems overturn the visual identification habits on which officers were taught to rely?
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Radar and stealth both change the time available to decide
Radar, stealth, and earlier attempts at concealment change who sees first, while officers must adapt habits formed under different identification systems.