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Considering that F-117 was based on thrown out Soviet paper (which was declared to be publishable in the open by Soviets), they migh have at most taken a look a
by p_l 5y ago
Considering that F-117 was based on thrown out Soviet paper (which was declared to be publishable in the open by Soviets), they migh have at most taken a look at materials used for coating, but the materials weren't that great as F-117 based itself on the shape not absorbing capability of materials...
- JacobiX 5y agoThe paper is mentioned also in the book "Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed". The Skunk Works' design team used the equations published by Soviet physicist and mathematician Petr Ufimtsev on electromagnetic wave reflection to create the plane.
- nickdothutton 5y agoAny links?
- djmips 5y agoThis is the 'paper' / monograph I think people refer to when they make this claim. https://archive.org/details/ufintsev-method-of-edge-waves-in-the-physical-theory-of-diffraction/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/ufintsev-method-of-edge-waves-in... Wiki link about 117 development that mentions the work by Pyotr Ufimtsev. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-117_Nighthawk#Development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-117_Nighthawk#Devel...
- formerly_proven 5y agoAdditional data point: the US made no attempt at salvaging or destroying the wreckage... but then bombed an embassy to make a point? Oh and it's not like that was the only time poor recon resulted in bombs dropped in another place during the intervention. The execution of it is certainly not a high in NATO's history.