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China-Japan-Koreas
China tests fighter jets equipped with 'invisibility cloaks' that make them IMPOSSIBLE to detect on radar
2018-04-25
[DailyMail]
  • South China Morning Post reports.the technology will boost the combat power of the non-stealth military jets

  • It uses a 'metamaterial' that changes how radio waves bounce off the surface

  • China said last month a lab successfully produced invisibility material in bulk
    Define bulk for this situation, please. How long does it take to produce enough material to cover one military jet?
  • Critics say the technology is difficult to mass produce and are limited to a small range of radar bandwidths
Posted by:Skidmark

#9  So they stick it a warehouse and can never locate it again?

"It was right here. I swear"
Posted by: Frank G   2018-04-25 20:11  

#8  Impossible?
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2018-04-25 18:00  

#7  Invisibility already cloaks the massive Chinese carfentanil imports to the USA.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2018-04-25 17:32  

#6  China said last month a lab successfully produced invisibility material in bulk
So they stick it a warehouse and can never locate it again?
Posted by: Classer   2018-04-25 17:10  

#5  China tests fighter jets equipped with 'invisibility cloaks' that make them IMPOSSIBLE to detect on radar

Must be true. We haven't detected a single one of them yet!
Posted by: gorb   2018-04-25 15:12  

#4  Consider it part of the PSYOPs against Taiwan and their other neighbors and it makes sense... Also internal propaganda, of course.
Posted by: magpie   2018-04-25 10:56  

#3  If you have an advantage, you don't publicize it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-04-25 03:56  

#2  We lost that F-117 over Serbia in 1999, cyber-espionage and the ye olde 'cloak & dagger' so they surely have samples. Getting multiple planes that you don't have to laboriously repaint with multiple layers of different RAM coatings every time before it takes off -- now that is difficult.
Posted by: magpie   2018-04-25 02:21  

#1  radar systems work over a pretty broad range, say 0.5 Giga Hertz to 50 Giga Hertz and there are other detection systems that work outside this range

so it takes multiple techniques to really do the job of creating stealth

Posted by: lord garth   2018-04-25 00:32  

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