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235 F-117 Stealth Fighter Designer Alan Brown + GA News

Aviation News Talk – Pilot Stories, Safety Tips & General Aviation News

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Radar Cross Section Reduction

The size of the b 52 cross section is its several football fields, because we measure these things in square meters. The biggest issue is that as you reduce the range, then the radar cross section has to go down by a fourth power. So typically, if i want to reduce the range of detection by a factor of two, i've got to reduce the radar crosssection by a factorof 16. And what about f 15, for example? What does that look like?

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