Stealth Technology

This book provides a solid foundation for understanding radar energy warfare and stealth technology. The book covers the fundamentals of radar before moving on to more advanced topics, including electronic counter and electronic counter-counter measures, radar absorbing materials, radar cross section, and the science of stealth technology. A final section provides an introduction to Luneberg lens reflectors. The book will provide scientists, engineers, and students with valuable guidance on the fundamentals needed to understand state-of-the-art radar energy warfare and stealth technology research and applications.

What Is Stealth Technology Stealth technology is a sub-discipline of military tactics and passive and active electronic countermeasures. It covers a range of methods used to make personnel, aircraft, ships, submarines, missiles, satellites, and ground vehicles less visible to radar, infrared, sonar, and other detection methods. Another name for stealth technology is low observable technology. It is the equivalent of camouflage worn by the military with regard to certain portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Stealth technology Chapter 2: Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit Chapter 3: Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk Chapter 4: Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor Chapter 5: Fourth-generation fighter Chapter 6: Stealth aircraft Chapter 7: Northrop YF-23 Chapter 8: Radar cross-section Chapter 9: Lockheed Have Blue Chapter 10: Plasma stealth Chapter 11: Infrared search and track Chapter 12: Stealth ship Chapter 13: BAE Systems Replica Chapter 14: Radiation-absorbent material Chapter 15: Lockheed Senior Prom Chapter 16: Stealth helicopter Chapter 17: Electro-optical MASINT Chapter 18: Infrared signature Chapter 19: Aircraft camouflage Chapter 20: Stealth ground vehicle Chapter 21: Cooperative Engagement Capability (II) Answering the public top questions about stealth technology. (III) Real world examples for the usage of stealth technology in many fields. (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of stealth technology' technologies. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of stealth technology.

First book to give an insight into a growing area of interest - stealth warship technology - which is crucial for future developments in warship construction. It demonstrates the importance of materials used in warship construction and how this influences all of a naval platform's design parameters. Stealth technology is now considered a critical component within warship design, with interest in the concept of stealth increasing around the globe as naval forces adapt to new challenges. Many new developing nations are now implementing their first generation of stealth technology military hardware. This exciting book explores the full extent of threats to warships and thus the transformational change in naval architecture to incorporate these modern stealth technologies. Discussing the history of stealth technology, with references to well-known aircraft, ships and events in military history, the book also provides readers with a unique opportunity to develop an understanding of the specialist skills required in this naval sector. This is an essential read for anyone interested in stealth design and the issues involved in this evolving technology.

The story behind the technology that revolutionized both aeronautics, and the course of history.On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen airplanes appeared in the skies over Baghdad. Or, rather, didn't appear. They arrived in the dark, their black outlines cloaking them from sight. More importantly, their odd, angular shapes, which made them look like flying origami, rendered themundetectable to Iraq's formidable air defenses. Stealth technology, developed during the decades before Desert Storm, had arrived. To American planners and strategists at the outset of the Cold War, this seemingly ultimate way to gain ascendance over the USSR was only a question. What if the UnitedStates could defend its airspace while at the same time send a plane through Soviet skies undetected? A craft with such capacity would have to be essentially invisible to radar - an apparently miraculous feat of physics and engineering. In Stealth, Peter Westwick unveils the process by which theimpossible was achieved.At heart, Stealth is a tale of two aerospace companies, Lockheed and Northrop, and their fierce competition - with each other and with themselves - to obtain what was estimated one of the largest procurement contracts in history. Westwick's book fully explores the individual and collective ingenuityand determination required to make these planes and in the process provides a fresh view of the period leading up to the end of the Soviet Union. Taking into account the role of technology, as well as the art and science of physics and engineering, Westwick offers an engaging narrative, one thatimmerses readers in the race to produce a weapon that some thought might save the world, and which certainly changed it.

Discusses the U.S. development of aircraft that can avoid detection by radar, describes materials and design considerations, and looks at stealth aircraft and missiles

How do military machines hide in plain sight? In this informative title, reluctant readers will find out! An engaging opening narrative sets the stage for readers to explore the uses, science behind, and future of military stealth technology. A timeline shows off the history of stealth, profiles explore current and future examples, and a diagram explains how stealth technology works. The book closes with a feature that explores other possible uses for this important military technology!

The book reviews developments in the following fields: stealth systems; interceptability parameters and analysis; intercept receivers; stealth waveforms; stealth antennas and radomes; and signal processing.

Stealth aircraft are designed to avoid detection using a variety of stealth technologies that reduce reflection/emission of radar, infrared, visible light, radio-frequency (RF) spectrum, and audio, collectively known as stealth technology.