168 hull is angeled somewhat but no to the extent of lafayette also the sheet metal for the superstructure just seem to pop up and doesnt seem to smoothly incoporated into design.

It reduces the RCS somewhat making it somewhat easiar to decoy missiles away with EW/ECM . Clean design helps for the crew to operate = efficency, it also helps with damage control.

question should what is definition of stealth feature? because there is lot more to stealth than just design with small rcs, u also need to worry bout heat and noise. These days every single navy seem to be building vessels with small rcs even many coast gaurd cutters have angeled superstructure and everthing but the question is how many vessels out there are indeed stealthy in all aspects.

well your question on what is the defination of stealth features seems to sum up all the differences we have. all the points you make about the 168’s design not being stealthy is based on you thinking that it is not as stealthy as the lafayette, but since when has the lafayette because the benchmark to stealth?

in my view, if a ship’s design can help to reduce its RCS more then purely symbolic in that it can give the ship an advantage in real life situations, then i would class the design as stealth/stealthy.