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Did we though? The triangle design for the stealth plane (I'm not arguing the merits of the design or the plane) to come out Skunkworks came from a radar paper
by sillyfluke 1y ago
Did we though?
The triangle design for the stealth plane (I'm not arguing the merits of the design or the plane) to come out Skunkworks came from a radar paper from a Soviet journal -- at least according to book on the topic. As I recall from the book, the Soviet author of the paper, who emigrated to the States in the 90s (?), said he wasn't too surprised that it was the States and not the Soviets who took his paper seriously.
And here we are revoking visas of international students.
This tells me that in a couple iterations down the road the MAGA admin is not going to take its own government journals seriously either.
- philistine 1y agoYou cannot actually believe that a triangle shape for a stealth plane is a novel idea that warrants reducing the work of the cold war era US? What other shape would it have had? Square?
- sillyfluke 1y agoI'll quote the story, since you don't want to google it: >> While Overholser himself described Ufimtsev’s work as, “so obtuse and impenetrable that only a nerd’s nerd would have waded through it,” he quickly recognized that a creative interpretation of the book could offer a means by which one could calculate how electromagnetic energy would reflect off of a two-dimensional shape. Overholser then reasoned that if they could break down the design of an aircraft into a collection of two-dimensional triangles, it could be possible to calculate an aircraft’s complete radar return without having to actually build it and stick it in front of a radar array for testing like Boeing’s Quiet Bird. << It was a book, not a journal paper apparently.