In a message dated 7/29/99 12:37:56 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> 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!
But a curved surface would become normal to the beam at more than one angle,
whereas the flat surface would be perpendicular to it in only one position.
Bill Wingstedt
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