Posted on 07/14/2010 10:48:52 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Some innovations in flight are huge; for instance, this week we've already seen concepts for a flying car and caught wind of the first fully-autonomous helicopter flight.
But other aviation innovations are as simple as a fresh coat of paint. An Israeli nanotech company is claiming that it has created a special paint that makes planes, missiles, drones, and other aircraft invisible to radar.
The company, called Nanoflight, says it has completed an initial test run and found that missiles painted with its proprietary nano-paint are very difficult to detect with radar. The paint doesn't make aircraft disappear completely from radar instruments, but it is disruptive enough that it is very hard for equipment to register their signatures as incoming war craft.
Radar works by sending out electromagnetic waves and seeing what comes back. If those waves strike a solid object -- like an incoming aircraft -- these waves are scattered. But some of them return to the radar receiver, and a regular, repetitive returning of those waves produces a positive ID of an object. The nano-paint simply absorbs these waves and dissipates them as heat that scatters into the atmosphere. The radar might still pick up a few returning waves, but the signal is weak and irregular and generally wouldn't register as an incoming object.
It's not perfect, but it's cheaper than buying a stealth aircraft and could produce a cost-effective means for entire fleets to add a layer or stealth to their tactical portfolios. Nanoflight officials also claims there are civilian uses for the stuff, like protecting buildings from radiation caused by nearby high-energy power lines.
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Why would an Israeli company go public with this information? Mossad putting fear into Israel’s enemies?
Your guess is better than mine.
I hope they don’t share the secret with America, our “leaders” would disclose it with our enemies in a heartbeat. sadly -/s
I could use this on my car, for those long-distance runs that inevitably end up well over the posted speed “suggestion”...
I wonder if this would work on my car.
These speeding tickets are getting expensive!
Doesn’t the new model F15E use a similar paint? I didn’t think this was a secret.
Prolly would. Lidar might not be deterred, though (any visual acquisition system).
The Russians have this stuff too. They also have plasma stealth.
According to a June 2002 article, the Russian plasma stealth device has been tested aboard a Sukhoi Su-27IB fighter-bomber.
ROFLMAO
Ahem! Comments?
WHatever happened to angles being a major part of the ‘stealth’ equation?
Iron Ball-2???
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