stealthed adj.

rendered invisible or undetectable, esp. by technological means; cf. cloaking device n.

1983 ‘L. Correy’ Manna in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact June 135/2 page image G. Harry Stine bibliography
The United States Aerospace Force has a number of stealthed objects in a sixty-degree-inclination geosynch orbit.
1989 J. Haldeman Buying Time 64 page image Joe Haldeman bibliography
Their craft is completely stealthed; no one can track them to the rock by radar. [Ibid. 116] Our Midnight Special is a fully stealthed, radarproof nuclear submarine.
1994 K. S. Robinson Martian Childhood in Asimov’s Science Fiction Feb. 150 page image Kim Stanley Robinson bibliography
The boulder car was stealthed, covered by a hollowed-out rock shell that was thermally regulated to stay the same temperature as its surroundings.
2004 R. Reed Plague of Life in Asimov’s Science Fiction Mar. 30 page image Robert Reed bibliography
Our friends with the police are already setting up watchers, waiting for a stealthed multirotor.
2014 S. Erikson Willful Child xii. 171 Steven Erikson bibliography
Head down to Deck Twenty and rig up a stealthed antimatter bomb and put it inside a cargo crate.
2021 C. Stross Invisible Sun 369 Charles Stross bibliography
It’s a really big bomb in a stealthed re-entry capsule.

antedating 1983

suggested by Bee Ostrowsky

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