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China's latest stealth tech promises invisible fighter jets, says report
(interestingengineering.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2024
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Bet they shine like the noon sun in IR though
Knowing the Chinese tendency to ~~lie~~ massage the truth this thing is probably only radar transparent in one frequency and lit up like a beacon in all other frequencies.
Well yeah, that was my first thought. They coat a part of the plane with a radioactive isotope. It would have to be a lot of the stuff to ionize enough air around the part to hide it from radar. Considering that the plane is flying, and the air around it doesn't sit still I would guess that in certain frequencies it would be bright as the sun. If this thing works as stated I wouldn't get close to that thing without a decent amount of concrete between us.
Who wants to volunteer to pilot the cancer plane?
It's like the Voyager episode, when the plane stops two lizards crawl out and mate in a nearby pond
Then abandon their offspring, complying with the One Child Policy.