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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Has China Just Made a Major Stealth Breakthrough?
2019-07-29
Yeah, but can you heat it up? Or maybe if you fly slow enough, it won't so who cares?
Chinese scientists announced they’ve invented a new kind of coating for aircraft and other weapons that’s virtually undetectable by radar.

This new, lab-made "metamaterial," in essence a very fine mesh with microscopic etchings, could shrink the radar signature of a fighter jet, warship, or missile by a thousand times, claimed the scientists at the Chengdu-based Institute of Optics and Electronics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Posted by:gorb

#6  Pakistan made an entire wing of fighters disappear by getting everyone on the base to close their eyes.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2019-07-29 22:56  

#5  Rumours the Iranians are able to make a plane invisible by photoshopping it in mid-flight.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-07-29 19:57  

#4  It's a breakthrough technology in stealth. They strap a ninja to the front of, whatever, and nobody can see it because, well, ninjas.
And they have a big supply of potential ninjas.
Posted by: ed in texas   2019-07-29 19:23  

#3  If China ever races ahead of the US in defense tech, it will only be because of differences in objectives of oversight on research budgets.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-07-29 19:22  

#2  BTW, have they finally perfected making high performance jet engines yet?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-07-29 19:20  

#1  Yes, a follower. Endless tasks they pursue. They really stand alone in their attempt at being a superpower. They waste as much as 50% of their GDP on so many programs internally and externally. They can not suffer the least bit of disruption internally or externally. Pakistan and North Korea are really the only two they can count on but obviously that isn't much. They have a controlled economy. So in my opinion they will never be a true super power with their internal problems and international alliances being so week. Trump has shown the way to grow a country. Britain will soon do the same. I see great things to come. These are exciting times. "Which shall it be". Seize the day.
Posted by: Dale   2019-07-29 17:16  

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