China's latest stealth tech promises invisible fighter jets, says report

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/chinas-latest-stealth-tech-promises-invisible-fighter-jets-says-report

New plasma stealth device targets specific areas, not entire aircraft.

According to a recent report from the South China Morning Post, Chinese scientists and engineers claim to have developed a plasma stealth device for military aircraft that is capable of rendering nearly any such aircraft undetectable by radar.

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TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 2y (1 reply)

For those wondering, that is a american F-35A in the picture.

Edit: Also why do people assume stealth means invisable, there not the same thing.

surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y

Invisible*

*To specific detection systems within specific distances at specific times

SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Bet they shine like the noon sun in IR though

teft@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Knowing the Chinese tendency to lie massage the truth this thing is probably only radar transparent in one frequency and lit up like a beacon in all other frequencies.

subverted_per@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Well yeah, that was my first thought. They coat a part of the plane with a radioactive isotope. It would have to be a lot of the stuff to ionize enough air around the part to hide it from radar. Considering that the plane is flying, and the air around it doesn't sit still I would guess that in certain frequencies it would be bright as the sun. If this thing works as stated I wouldn't get close to that thing without a decent amount of concrete between us.

SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Who wants to volunteer to pilot the cancer plane?

MaggiWuerze@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It's like the Voyager episode, when the plane stops two lizards crawl out and mate in a nearby pond

verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y

Then abandon their offspring, complying with the One Child Policy.

TubeTalkerX@kbin.social · 19 pts · 2y (2 replies)

[USA]
Chinese Invisible fighter jet? At this time of year! At this time of day! In this part of the world! Localized entirely within your Country?!?

[China]
Yes.

[USA]
May I see it?

[China]
No.

TheFriar@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

This is vaguely ringing a bell. What’s the reference?

Snowpix@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y

Steamed Hams! That's what I call hamburgers. It's a regional dialect.

TubeTalkerX@kbin.social · 9 pts · 2y

Big woop, the Amazonian Women have had this technology for Decades!

Thcdenton@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Like the kings clothes