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From: parmentier@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Stealth and radars (was: "Stealth" Bombers)
Message-ID: <1991Jan22.022031.22399@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 22 Jan 91 02:20:31 GMT
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From: parmentier@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu
In article <1991Jan21.041430.5413@cbnews.att.com>, ar73+@andrew.cmu.edu (Aymerik Renard) writes:
> 
>     The B-2 is the stealth bomber. The F-117A is the stealth fighter.
> It's also interesting to note that the F-117A can be detected by radars
> on some of the Mirage planes.
> 
	Stealth technology only allows an aircraft to be invisible to a
small range of frequencies.  I would think that weather radars would pick
up F-117As with little trouble, other than the fact that weather radars
would make it very difficult to distinguish the plane from all of the noise.
Dean Ing wrote a novel _The Ransom of Black Stealth One_, which while
mediocre as a novel had some interesting action and discussion on this
topic.  Does anyone know the frequencies of the radras of the Mirages in
question and the normal frequencies for air radar?

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