True. The primary reason the F-117 was all angular is that, at the time,
they didn't have the software available to design a stealth airplane using
curved surface. All next-gen stealth airplanes (B-2, F-22, YF-23), have
lots of rounded contours in addition to the stealth-calculated angles.
At 01:36 AM 7/29/99 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In a message dated 99-07-28 16:19:18 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
><< Curved surfaces produce large radar
> reflections which are not desirable for a stealth aircraft. >>
>
>Not so! And without getting into any technicalities, check out the primo
2nd
>generation stealth aircraft, the B-2 - which has some very curved surfaces!
>Consider which type target will reflect the most radar energy back toward
its
>source - a flat disk normal to the radar beam, or a sphere of the same
>diameter?
>Good Lift!
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