Stealth Technology

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this entirely new family of aircraft has recently been
announced to the public but the United States Department of Defence. These
aircraft are virtually undetectable to radar, these new aircraft are the
first examples of '' law observable, or stealth technology. Because radar
in the primary means by wich aircraft are detected and tracked, it has
become very important to the military service to make aircraft as invisible
to radar as possible. By building aircraft in certain ways or out or out of
certain materials like exotic plastics, it is possible to control the
direction or deduce the amount of radar energy they reflect. This prevents
energy radar systems from spotting or tracking '' stealth'' aircraft and
from using weapons like anti-aircraft missiles to destroy them.

There were attempts to build an aircraft that was ''stealthy ''with
a low observables '' pair to the revelation of the new ''stealth'' aircraft
family. Among these aircraft was a special lockhead U-2 ...

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radar absorbent coating (RAM). From the engines, that are buried
inside the structure of the aircraft. Which are put there to reduce the
amount of heat they generate and from exotic and sophisticated engine
exhaust nozzles that also help reduce heat generation. Finally a full
complement of heavy and space-consuming electronic countermeasures
equipment which is a part of the aircraft's defenses adds to it's weight.
All of these add weight that otherwise would not be an encumbrance, and
weight equates to penalties in speed, range, and altitude performance.

Another problem with incorporating "stealth" technology into an
aircraft is a wing shape that does not provide the optimum ...

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