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To: RusIvan
In the meter bandwidth any airplane is unstealthy. The most of russian anti-aitcraft radars are in meter bandwidth.

Do what? Your statement implies that low observable technology can be obviated by a simple change in amplitude and phasing?

So, when a B2 flies over Iraq, all the soviet era-radars light it up?

Somebody better tell the USAF they spent $500B or so for nothing.

12 posted on 01/24/2007 9:43:17 AM PST by xsrdx (Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
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To: xsrdx

So, when a B2 flies over Iraq, all the soviet era-radars light it up? ==

Iraq do not have such radars. But if B-52 flies somewhere near russian border it will be easily targeted.

Somebody better tell the USAF they spent $500B or so for nothing.==

It is the fact that Ufimtsev' stealth theory works only for millimeter band. That is the reason why Soviet Union didn't build the stealth based on his theory. Ufimtsev is the russian mathematitian and developed that theory in 1950th. That theory wasn't even classified in USSR so United States got it easily.


14 posted on 01/24/2007 9:55:13 AM PST by RusIvan (The western MSM zombies the western publics.)
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To: xsrdx
There were some concerns about the B-2 early on. But with millimeter or meter, the cross section of the B2 is still pretty low. So it might show up, but as a much smaller thing that it really is.
25 posted on 01/24/2007 2:08:28 PM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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