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Doesn't really make sense to me. For one, it's not silent, just quieter than you'd normally expect from a supersonic aircraft. It's not stealthy; radar will s
by lupusreal 2y ago
Doesn't really make sense to me. For one, it's not silent, just quieter than you'd normally expect from a supersonic aircraft. It's not stealthy; radar will see it. It can't fly low and still be fast, so it can't hide from radar behind terrain. It's much slower than ballistic missiles, hypersonic glide vehicles, etc.
- ceejayoz 2y agoQuiet is good. The B-2 is engineered to be low observability not just in radar cross section, but in infrared, visual, and auditory. https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a24484/b-2-stealth-bomber-flyby/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a24484/b-... A high-flying stealth subsonic cruise missile can be as silent as the airliners you see everyday flying silently overhead at 30k feet. Sonic booms are dramatically less stealthy.
- lupusreal 2y agoIf it had a very small radar cross section then it could be an interesting cruise missile, and if it had a robust pressure hull it could be a submarine. It doesn't. This conversation is stupid.