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August 5th, 2013, 05:16 PM
what is the latest stealth technology currently in development?
The very latest one is probably classified.
Most stealth techs all work about the same, though. Just build the aircraft out of flat surfaces instead of rounded surfaces.
Beyond any doubt, making solid objects, even great big ones, "invisible" to the eye. It's been done with a tank! The process being worked on involves, as I understand it, placing an enormous number of forward-facing LED-like devices which are illuminated by rearward-looking sensors, tiny CMOS devices, which "paint" a view on the front of the object of the actual view behind it.Originally Posted by knowsci
Crazy? Tax dollars being effectively used, as usual! jocular
Oh, just to be picky...Beyond any doubt, making solid objects, even great big ones, "invisible" to the eye. It's been done with a tank! The process being worked on involves, as I understand it, placing an enormous number of forward-facing LED-like devices which are illuminated by rearward-looking sensors, tiny CMOS devices, which "paint" a view on the front of the object of the actual view behind it.
Crazy? Tax dollars being effectively used, as usual! jocular
When you say "without doubt" I'd say you're wrong.
Since knowledge of that particular piece of stealth tech has been released to the public it's hardly going to be cutting edge black research.
Kojax was correct: whatever is currently being worked on in that field - by definition then the "latest" - will still be at the classified stage.
And I'm fairly sure that it wasn't tax dollars being spent on making tanks invisible since it, or at least the publicly-shown version (and it was unveiled at least 6 years ago!), is a BAe project 1. The B standing for British...
Tax pounds, therefore.
1 They've gone further - there's now a infra-red system "available" to mask vehicles in a rather more important spectrum.
remember the missile gap
good thing it's the brits who are ahead of us in the invisible tank race
If it were the chinks or the rooskeys, we'd have a real fun time of it.
I'd give a buck to be a fly on the wall in the skunk works anyday
If you could get hold of faa aproved flight plans and find the gaps
you'd likely know where to look
Isn't BAe a company (rather than a government department)?
So, neither 'tax' nor 'dollars' - simply 'pounds'?
...just to be even more picky.
I, for one, certainly appreciate the broad-minded acceptance by the Forum's Membership of the "non-politically correct". In my hometown forum, Berwyntalk.com, I was most severely reprimanded for quoting a remark made by our old family doctor when I was 14 years old, in which he used the word "Chinaman". The membership there consider use that word to be degrading and disgusting. jocremember the missile gap
good thing it's the brits who are ahead of us in the invisible tank race
If it were the chinks or the rooskeys, we'd have a real fun time of it.
I'd give a buck to be a fly on the wall in the skunk works anyday
If you could get hold of faa aproved flight plans and find the gaps
you'd likely know where to look
I was trying to link an image of this new U.S military stealth tank, but can't find any pictures of it.
Here it is:
Well yes, but they sell to the government.Isn't BAe a company (rather than a government department)?
So, neither 'tax' nor 'dollars' - simply 'pounds'?
...just to be even more picky.
(And they do receive some government funding).
If you could get hold of faa aproved flight plans and find the gaps
you'd likely know where to look
before your time duck
missile gap:
us gvmt thought(or claimed) that the ussr was ahead of us in missile technology
sputnik kinda made the shit hit the fan(so to speak) and the country geared up to beat the "rooskies"
replace the bombers with icbms , etc...
see:
Missile gap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
FAA = Federal Aviation Administration,
see:
Federal Aviation Administration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
they route traffic around military test flights("gaps")Regulating civil aviation to promote safety, especially through local offices called Flight Standards District Offices
Developing and operating a system of air traffic control and navigation for both civil and military aircraft
Did not exist.
Right... because new test aircraft would declare flights paths (which would be well above civilian corridors anyway and, when temporarily at conflicting altitudes would be over military territory).they route traffic around military test flights("gaps")
Regardless, do said gaps tell you what type of aircraft the airliners are avoiding?
IOW IF there's a gap is it a stealth type, a UAV, a hypersonic test vehicle or simply some guy enjoying a flight to maintain his currency on type?
(And before you think to mention it - civilian radars generally do NOT detect aircraft, or lack of - they work on the transponder, so a gap with zero "radar return" is not indicative of a non-reflecting aircraft, merely one that hasn't turned on the transponder).
If someone stole Wonder Woman's airplane, how the hell would they find it?
It's next to the Invisble Man's underpants.
nuttin gets by you duckDid not exist. .
Cloaking is the latest stealth research.
Metamaterial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Metamaterial cloaking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Metamaterials breakthrough could lead to the first wide-spectrum optical invisibility cloak
On The Quest To Invisibility - Metamaterials and Cloaking: Andrea Alu at TEDxAustin - YouTube
‘Invisibility cloak’ hides cats and fish : Nature News & Comment
A lot of folks have added good information but just to add a bit more, we use different stealth technologies in different applications so there is no single stealth technology better than all others in all given classes, but there are several that are cross-platform compatible.
Skunk Works, DARPA, and Phantom Works, are three of the larger companies and government agencies dedicated to highly classified innovation, a lot of which is focused on stealth technology. Arguably, most innovation comes from universities such as Cal-Berkley, MIT, Brown, and many others.
Some important notes to make is that stealth can be focused on not only materials that help provide radar-absorbent material or camouflage, but also in size, shape, and technology that goes into minimizing sound like in the case of submarines.
The latest stealth technology is of course classified but a great source of information is found in Wiki here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_technology
Here are some interesting links: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130909172215.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrofluid
Nanoparticles are likely the next and upcoming stealth technology but I'd guess we won't be seeing them applied to anything of mass-industry anytime soon.
Cheers!
Light-bending cloth, capable of making any object it covers completely invisible to the human eye-and cameras. Could be very fun if this ever becomes commercially available.
More effective in practice is "smokescreen" of one form or another. In electronic warfare that means bewildering the enemy with a lot of false signals. At its best it tricks the enemy into attacking nonexistent targets.
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