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Wouldn't air friction on a flying stealth airplane cause it to be detected due to the heat generated? It must obviously be more complicated than that but that
by topicseed 5y ago
Wouldn't air friction on a flying stealth airplane cause it to be detected due to the heat generated?
It must obviously be more complicated than that but that should be doable nowadays?
- graderjs 5y agoThey ionize the hull in some way to reduce friction I guess that reduces the thermal signature.
- dotancohen 5y agoWhat do you think "ionize" means in this context? Or, for that matter, hull? These aircraft have many layers of material between the traditional tensioned skin of the aircraft and the outside air.
- ranger207 5y agoYes, there's a lot of work in infrared search-and-track (IRST) for detecting stealth aircraft. But the atmosphere is a great absorber of IR so it's not a panacea.
- baybal2 5y ago> Wouldn't air friction on a flying stealth airplane cause it to be detected due to the heat generated? Stealth coated airplanes are supposedly flying very slow on missions to avoid infrared detection. It will probably still not do anything against astronomy grade infrared sensors.
- the__alchemist 5y agoThe frequency of emitted IR isn't what radars look for. (Microwave range generally)