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I'm sure you wrote this in jest, but in case people aren't aware: The "Stealth" in "Stealth bomber" refer to hiding the plane from anti-aircraft defenses like
by capableweb 5y ago
I'm sure you wrote this in jest, but in case people aren't aware: The "Stealth" in "Stealth bomber" refer to hiding the plane from anti-aircraft defenses like radar, infrared, acoustics and some optical visibility, but the anti-reflective paint that is used for hiding it optically is only on the underside, not on the top.
- bee_rider 5y agoI wonder if imaging from above could actually be a threat for these planes. I mean -- stick cameras on all the SpaceX satellites and you've got an awful lot of eyeballs in LEO, right? Might at least be able to tell a ground based radar where to focus their search...
- t0mas88 5y agoThey fly in the dark and IR imaging doesn't work very well due to coatings and trying to hide the engine heath signature.
- andrelaszlo 5y agoWhen each signature refers to the previous one, it forms a Heath Ledger?
- tener 5y agoPretty sure you need powerful lenses to do useful things though, but who knows, maybe this is workable with some image processing of multiple satellite feeds?
- bee_rider 5y agoYeah, I'm sure somebody is already doing good work on whatever the photographic equivalent of Synthetic Aperture Radar is. They should call it Synthetic Lens Aperture Photography, so they could use SLAP as the acronym (the most important property of a research topic is of course the ability to come up with good titles). For example: SLAP BASS: a Synthetic Lens Aperture Photography, Bandwidth Augmenting Sensor Suite Does it make technical sense? I have no idea. But it sounds cool!
- cooljacob204 5y agoThey often fly their missions at night time, so this would mitigate that.