Stealth Aircraft

Stealth Aircraft.
The term “stealth” is commonly applied to aircraft or missile systems that have been designed to produce as small a radar signature as is practicable. In fact, stealth technology goes beyond this to include reducing as many “observables” of an aircraft or missile system as possible—for example, its visual, noise, and heat signatures, as well as its electromagnetic ones. Stealth technology is applicable to other systems as well, particularly to ship design. Overall, while the term “stealth” is convenient shorthand, a more precise and all‐encompassing term used in the military community is “low observables.”

Interest in reducing the observable characteristics of aircraft dates to World War I, when various of the warring powers experimented with both camouflage paint schemes and even see‐through fabric coatings applied to airplanes. Theoretical studies in [The entire page is 873 words long]

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