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i know country vs country videos created this channel, but these documentaries on real-life technologies are what's keeping us old fans coming back (at least that's my opinion).
I would disagree, i get very excited when i see a new binkov video and then very disappointed when it isn't country vs country and thus end up skipping it entirely. Each to their own though.
This has been one of THEE best videos on stealth I have seen yet. I learned something new like how the radar waves can actually travel along the skin almost like water can run along the underside of a flat surface, in small quantities and that's why the F-35's nose looks the way it does. Fascinating.
I really enjoy these more in depth videos discussing aspects of warfare not well understood by many. You should produce more of these type of videos going forward. I really love the war scenario videos but you can only do so many scenarios before they start becoming gratuitous and less interesting.
This golf ball analogy is a popular misconception. The plane won't reflect the same radar return from every angle cause its shape is diffirent than a ball. In fact from some angles the reflections of the same plane could go from this "golf ball" to a house size.
Yup, mission planning and managing your emissions returns is key. Gotta wonder if the stealth jets have their own sensors that will give the pilot cues on how to position their plane vs real time threats. Sure they have something just never heard of or looked into it really.
@@Kman31ca Penetration missions are planned ahead with recon and intelligence gathering about all potential threats and their location to determin the optimal flight path. But after all in combat everything is possible, unexpected shit can occur then the pilot asses the situation and decide.
@@Kman31ca The F-35 has extremely comprehensive sensors and data sharing across many platforms, as well as a streamlined pilot VR interface to keep the pilot as well informed as possible. Avoiding giving radar stations (and possibly angles between split radar emiters/recievers) a broadside view of your flat surfaces is key. Plus avoiding giving IR platforms an up-skirt view as well. Low level flight helps immensely though, which is why the F-35 has such a high wing loading, it's very resistant to vertical wind sheer, making treetop level flight safer than most planes.
I expected to have to correct 1001 things in this video. But I don't. Only thing I'd add is that the proliferation of IRST as a detection method puts a kind of range limit on stealth (at least for jet planes). As such, the F-35 is designed with a moderately weaker focus on RCS than the F-22. Only other possible additions being that stealth influence on designs in the US actually date back to the 1950's. The F-106 for example, has a shockingly small and well managed RCS. And the F-117's angular surface is actually kinda terrible, since triangular edges are much worse than bi-angular edges at re-radiation, and it's about as aerodynamically sound as a flying brick.
appreciate the level of detail and the accommodating imagery. Great job as usual comrade! One aspect to consider is only technology advanced countries with large budgets can afford stealth. These being Nato countries, Russia, and China. Other countries will in the future focus on defeating stealth given the large expenses with plane design and production.
The entire surface of the F-35 is designed to serve as a transmitter/receiver. They are also meant to fly 3-4 at a time in order to enhance their ability. The plane is in an entirely different class and function even to the F-22.
B-2 bomber is simply cool. If you aren't paying attention and you look up and see one flying over all of a sudden you likely to go, "What the heck is that!?" Before realizing what it is a few seconds later. lol
Basically you are discussing High PRF vs Low PRF if I remember my military training. PRF is what we called it anyway.. for example High PRF is fire control Radar, Low PRF is Surveillance Radar... For those that don't know PRF is Pulse Repetition Factor...
Great job Binkov. One of the most ineresting foreign channels about weapons. Although im able to uderstand only 80%, what are you talking about, because of the language (im russian), i love your channel for your almost perfect diction. I learn english, watching your videos. Благодарю за труд! Отличный голос и дикция.
Hi ! This video is one of the best I've seen on this subjet and I'm really interested in stealth tech. For an oral exam next year I'm planning to talk about stealth technologies and your video is a good source for me. Could you give some of your sources so I can expand my knowledge on the subject ? Thanks, also keep on with the good work (am French, so I'm sorry if I made mistakes)
@@Julle399 I wanna go in engineering newt year but I have to finish high school (French here ) and I need to find the litterature you are talking about. That's why I am asking for a wee bit of help
Low-frequency bands are effective against stealth, and works in less desirable weathers and is long-ranged, but it have limitations: mobility of the radar platform, resolution (accuracy and precision). Extremely high-frequency bands, even higher than the X-Band are also effective against stealth, but it also have limitations: short-range, power consumption, susceptibility to weathers, and modern stealth planes can deal with it. That's why air defense is no substitute for a good air force. Modern stealth planes carry standoff weapons, and use its advanced ESM to stay away from the radar. So you have to invest a lot in the radar placement, which will eventually add up and become just as expensive as procuring a lot of stealth planes. Early warning radars can detect stealth planes at longer ranged, but it doesn't have the accuracy to guide missiles, so even if it cue its findings to the engagement radar, it may still not be able to shoot the stealth plane down since engagement/fire control radars use X and C-Bands, which stealth planes optimized against, it simply doesn't have the range to get a lock even if surveillance and early warning radars knew the general direction of the plane. Basically, you can see the stealth plane, but unless it fly close to you, you won't be able to do anything about it. That's why it's important to also invest in procuring interceptor aircraft, because any competent pilot of the stealth plane will stay outside the range of the engagement/fire control radars. If your early warning/surveillance radar detected a stealth plane, but enemy's stealth plane is too far away for your engagement/fire control radar and missiles to reach, you have to send your interceptor aircraft.
Stealth aircraft also lose a lot in different aspects, because of their construction. First of all, with their price (and in particular the total monopoly of Lockheed Martin in the west, that drives the price through the roof) most air forces are unable to replace 4th generation fighters with nearly the same numbers of F-35. Quantity has a quality of it's own, and that means every loss is a powerful blow to their user. Secondly, weapon bays. They not only impact aerodynamic performance, relying on them means that your total missile load is less than half of a F-15 or Su-27. Opponent's planes can go turn around when shot at, waste your ammo (they are able to escape thanks to their overall better energy perfomance), and simultainously return fire with a bigger quantity of missiles. After one exchange, the side employing stealth fighters can be already out of ammunition. The impact of construction on the energy and maneuvrability can be mitigated in different ways, and 2-engined fighters will be vastly superior here. So flying like a brick is more of a problem of a single plane (single engine F-35), than the whole concept.
@@bogdanbogdanoff5164 Fair point, but the F-35 has a similar thrust-to-weight ratio to the F-16 when adjusted for the fuel capacity, it's no flying brick, many pilots pointed out that the F-35's kinematic performance is very similar to the F/A-18, allowing it to perform a certain post-stall maneuver that F-15 and F-16 can't, thanks to its all-moving horizontal tails. And at least from a rough calculation, it seems to be able to out-accelerate the SU-27 in subsonic region. Stealth planes' overall design is not as aerodynamic as non-stealth planes of a similar capability, but it's somewhat offset by a lack of parasitic drag from external load. The F-22 can carry as much air-to-air missiles as a Eurofighter, and the F-35 will have the Sidekick installed sometimes in early-to-mind 2020s, allowing it carry up to 6 AMRAAM equivalent internally in total. Non-stealth fighters will have to carry weapons externally, creating drag and higher radar return, and the increased drag and weight will reduce the range of the aircraft. That's why F-18, F-16, and F-15 never actually filled their hardpoints in combat because they can't get a meaningful range out of it. There's no point carrying 10 guns if you can only hobble it for a short distance. Also, the stealth plane can get into the range of its missile's no-escape zone against opponent's non-stealth aircraft, allowing a high probability of hit. BVR is mostly useful against large aircraft, such as bombers, AWACS, and tankers. Against fighter-sized targets, it must get closer, and to reduce the chance of your enemy employing the same tactic, having a stealth plane is a good idea.
@@mickeyg7219 Stealth aircrafts should be used as intercepters, i agree. But they are too expensive to be a front-line fighter. If it's all up to WVR, stealthiness has no mean. Their duty should be intercepting by getting close before being detected and supporting agile, cheap (that's why many) fighters to start their close combat. Fighter mafia members once simulated a close combat between F-15's and F-5's that are worth the same price in total. For example 1 F-15 vs 10 F-5. And F-5 was the winner. Higher quality and price is defeat in this incident. So there must be diversity among aircrafts. If a stealth aircraft is requested to carry more weapon by compromising stealthines why is this aircraft exist in the first place? There are so many aircraft can carry tons of weapons without stealth feature. In future combat rules may change. Laser weapons may chance everything we think about WVR. But fundamental rules will remain same, if the aircraft is more agile it's ability to survive a missile is more. A fronline fighter also doesn't need to much weapons because in combat with 200 fighters launching missiles each other, probably aircrafts won't be flying for long. They should face the enemy with agile characteristics and get support from the interceptors with their long-range missiles. Surviving fighters can get fuel from a tanker, this isn't a big deal after managing a combat.
@@mickeyg7219 By brick I meant excessive energy bleed during maneuvers. If the lightning 2 has to turn tail and dodge a BVR missile, it likely won't climb back into the fight because of how inferior it is in this department. Comparing it to a viper really doesn't help your case, as it is also not an energy fighter, but a one engine multirole. It is a one trick pony, and the expensive trick it does is under a threat of multiple technical ways to detect it, which can be perfected at any time of it's service. And they project it to serve for 30 years?? Thanks lockheed, my greatest ally
@@bogdanbogdanoff5164 wanna know how i can tell you didn't read the post you replied to jk you obviously walked in with the clueless notion that f35s are one-trick ponies so it's not like explaining anything to you a second time would matter
Well what we're seeing is passive stealth. There's also the concept of active stealth, with wave cancellation techniques being used to defeat enemy radar by emitting an out-of-phase signal back at the emitter. But I think that would require a very powerful and very fast computer onboard the aircraft to analyze the incoming wave and quickly emit the cancelling wave back at the emitter. Probably not feasible at this moment. Perhaps when quantum computer become more widely available, and in more compact form factors. But if this could be done, we would not have to deal with performance or aerodynamic compromises. You could put this equipment into something like a Su-35 or F-15 and make it invisible. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050919302170
That's exactly US stealth tech had adopted,, Active STEALTH is a RADAR JAMMING capability.. only SUPER COMPUTER/ AVIONIC and powerful RADAR can do that's TASK..
@@riorazzer1090 Not radar jamming. That's been around for a long time. ECM. Broadcast signals and white noise over the radar's frequency to produce false returns. But everybody knows you're around once you've flipped on the ECM. And missiles such as the HARM can be designed to home-on-jam. I'm talking about real-time analysis and processing of an incoming radar signal, and then emitting back an out-of-phase signal to cancel out the returns. No one knows you're there.
Pretty decent video on stealth without diving too deep into technicalities. Reminds me of some parts from the 3 parts stealth article I read on AW&ST a while back. Could have used a little explanation on "Full aspect Vs partial aspect" stealth... or another video on it 🤔
@@freedomvanguard8185 don't understand the jargon used. But yeah, frontally and sometimes that is all that matters for a drone, S 70 , especially 4 S 70's with a Su 57 looks good. Well, ofc the US has something better, mebbe yes. But still more than good enough.
@@rigormortis6481 Aahah, okay, nevermind that ;) They may look good, but please, don't forget that basically, Su 57 is made around an old soviet-era tech, such as mig 29 or similar. Also, those birds will never get into mass production because russia is a 3rd world country (huge? duh) with resource-based economy, incapable of a modern manufacturing. It's a miracle that it somehow managed to copicat chinese j20 and a us drone
@@freedomvanguard8185 umm..wot ? I wuldn't really say who copied what. That much is pretty apparent and known. Regardless, continue to underestimate whatever whoever. Yeah, looks good; and in a couple of years will carry, say around 3000 kg of ordinance. Looks REAL good then yeah !
F-22 uses both special foam, radar absolution coating, and high carbon composite materials. F-35 Lot 4 uses both special CNT (carbon-nanotube) meta-materials and radar absolution coating.
@DarkAgit Backup No one has made that claim. It just gives stealth planes the advantage of being able to see the enemy far further away than they see you.
One interesting question is whether networked planes could stand far apart so that one could listen for diffuse returns while the other broadcasts radar. This would seem to defeat most techniques shown here.
Since a radar wave is detected by reflecting back perpendicular to the source radar emitting the signal, by linking several radars to a computer system to be able to receive data from each other could you not increase visibility of aircraft, even stealthy? They could triangulate from their various locations to obtain fairly accurate position surely? With the right software surely you could perform 'machine learning' and learn various radar signatures and be able to get a sufficient position and trajectory for even targeting, by linking all the various radar and different bandwidths of available radar. All you need is a significant network of radar stations. So good for national air defences, but even in foreign territory have several dispersed radar units. Am I missing something critical here? Wouldn't this make stealth almost useless?
The cost of actually saturating an area with radar coverage to the degree you're proposing might see through stealth most of the time, but then an enemy will just start building $15million drones that can be economically sacrificed by throwing them into the grinder. So long as they destroy some of the radar coverage then the stealth is suddenly applicable again and the enemy spent less to destroy the radars than you spent building them. Also, because you are firing missiles at the drones, you are telling the enemy where your missile launchers are located. In reality these radars are used to help defend key positions.
motmontheinternet Yes not an unreasonable point you make! Whatever technology exists there'll always be ways to try and counter it. And then there's a way to counter the counter. And so it goes, ad infinitum....
Yes. Except for the targeting part. Not sure how much is wise to say on that topic. But your comment kinda defines much of the escalation process in this arena. Ultimately it's a measures & countermeasures spending arms race. If you have more money to work with, or you deploy a measure who's countermeasure is more costly than the measure, you're playing to win.
Please do UK vs Japan! Their spending is similar, but the British forces are much more geared to offence than Japan. British can use regional bases to balance manpower.
LOL 1000 But they are still far behind the US in terms of technology. China steals most of their technology, but reverse engineering doesn’t mean they’ve truly understand and mastered the techniques needed to perfect it. Russia has fantastic engineering capabilities (My money would be on a Pak-FA over a J-20 any day) but because of economic issues they aren’t able to put the resources needed to mass produce their aircraft. A J-20 was detected by an Indian (Russian designed) Su-30 in 2018.
J-20 was detected but India fighters and ground radar, the SU-57 has also been detected by Israeli radars, I wouldn’t say China and Russia are close to a stealth fighter
modern deceptive jammers can copy an incoming pulse then emit a distorted version to the seeker-head on the missile to confuse it...move...counter-move [laser seekers could change the game]
You are talking about track-breaking radar jammers, and the technology for that is at LEAST 50 years old. It was used in Vietnam as the ALQ-51 and ALQ-100, and later as the ALQ-126.
VHF will get many false positives from weather conditions (e.g. the Davis VHF radar). And even if you do detect a plane, because of the poor resolution you do not know how many planes, what type, or what heading or velocity. You still need a more accurate fire control radar as you cannot fire a missile at where a plane is, but rather you must fire the missile where it's likely to be in order to make a successful intercept. VHF radars are also big and relatively immobile - easy targets. If the Gulf Wars any indication of US operation, early warning radars didn't help the Iraqis. They were blinded or disabled before the air campaign even began. Not that it really mattered as all it could tell the Iraqis were they were stuffed; the skies were full of wild weasles, decoy drones, cruise missiles, jamming aircraft / munitions, and anti-radar munitions that float in the air and destroy any active radars. Meanwhile, the Nighthawks were very successful evading defenses and hitting the heavily defended Republican Guard positions around Baghdad.
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The big problem with lowering the radar cross section by only an order of magnitude using special materials is that diffuse return of a signal is proportional to distance to the fourth power, which increases very rapidly as distance decreases. So that's only really a 44% reduction in detection range. Significant, yes, but not really decisive as an advantage. Roughly the same advantage that wearing dark clothing would give you against an adversary with a flashlight.
hmm, this gets me a thinking, perhaps it might be possible to make a machine that creates false radar signatures so that it looks like in one direction you are being attacked by legions of aircraft that aren't there leaving other areas open to attack
The allies did something similar to this with chaff and balloons during the d day invasion. They dropped tons of chaff and had reflective balloons far up the coast from normandy to make it look like the main invasion force was coming across there. Here is a link about it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day_naval_deceptions#Glimmer_and_Taxable
Yeah, but you must know exactly what signals to return, because the enemy surely knows what a true radar return looks like. In fact, chaff is becoming less and less effective to confuse missiles, because the missile guidance system takes into account things like the speed of the wave and the Doppler effect. Chaff doesn't move at the same speed as an aircraft, and with that parameter alone, it can be easily filtered out. You can, however, just saturate the everloving fuck of the electromagnetic spectrum, and hope that the enemy is out of anti-radiation missiles.
In the final part of the video it is stated that the stealth technology would be composed by shape + shape + material + material but I would reduce the shape to just one and three materials. I found an article about a Soviet mathematician named Pyotr Yakovlevich Ufimtsev, who in 1960s began developing equations for predicting the reflection of electromagnetic waves from simple two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects. Much of Ufimtsev's work was translated into English, and in the 1970s American Lockheed engineers began to expand upon some of his theories to create the concept of aircraft with reduced radar signatures. A stealth engineer at Lockheed, Denys Overholser, had read the publication and realized that Ufimtsev had created the mathematical theory and tools to do finite analysis of radar reflection. This discovery inspired and had a role in the design of the first true stealth aircraft, the Lockheed F-117. Northrop also used Ufimtsev's work to program super computers to predict the radar reflection of the B-2 bomber. So the anterior gives us the idea of how the " shape " into the stealth technology is mature enough, the next is the RAM (Radar Absorbing Materials).
You're absolutely right . In fact , Pyotr Ufimtsev is the father of stealth technology . He was , actually , the chief designer of both the F-117A and the B-2 . He defected to the west when his designs ( principals for F-117 , back then Project Have Blue ) were rejected by the Soviet MoD . Back in his time all his equations and research was focused on how to make the aircraft's aerodynamical design to reflect waves .
@@sovietunion8158 You are full of crap and you know it as well as most that read your pathetic attempt of propaganda. While he did "develop equations for predicting the reflection of electromagnetic waves from simple two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects", he was in no way affiliated with the design of actual aircraft, and was living in the USSR when the F117 & B2 were designed by Lockheed and Northrop respectively. The fact that the USSR did not realize the possible implications of his work, and allowed his writings to be publicized internationally, was a colossal fuck-up of major proportions." Much of Ufimtsev's work was translated into English, and in the 1970s American Lockheed engineers began to expand upon some of his theories to create the concept of aircraft with reduced radar signatures." Thanks to the SOVIET UNION's blunder, the US has the most stealthy aircraft on the planet.
@@etech2xwon59 Stealth is old tech now . Dis you know back in 2017 a Russian Air Force Su-35S had an F-22A Block 40 Raptor on its IRST screen for 11 minutes without the Raptor even being aware of its presence ? And you can read Ufimtsev's biography and watch his documentaries .
@@sovietunion8158 The Raptor was definitely aware of the Su-35S's presence. There was simply no reason to react because we are not at war with each other and it is *never* a 1vs1 situation.
@@dumdumbinks274 It was not aware of its presence because the Su-35S had turned of its radar . It detected the Raptor using passive measures ( IRST ) which are undetectable .
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You asked at the beginning shape or materials as far as stealth working it's a bit of both but if you can ionize the air around the craft you will go invisible.
Little addition, the F-117 was only faceted because of limitations of then current computer simulations. Only a few years later Northrop had Tacit Blue flying.
China outnumbered ASEAN 2-1 in warships and nearly 5-1 in fighter jets. The only nation in ASEAN with dedicated attack aircraft is Myanmar who is more likely to side with China than fight China. Unfortunately for ASEAN, without Indian or American/Japanese intervention, it’s pretty hopeless.
Stealth is for virgins. If it was me, I'd make an aircraft that would amplify its radar cross section to the point where the enemy would think they are being invaded by the alien saucer from Independence Day.
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If early detection of stealth jets with radar is hard, why not switch over to satellites? Maybe even satellites seeming stationary over a territory? With cameras good enough to measure the length of a person via a shadow a long time ago they should be able to identify what aircraft is flying where. Would heat detection be possible too at near vacuum and what is the range of a heat detector like FLIR? As far as I know there are no stealth jets that don't produce heat while burning through that jet fuel.
Andy Hage nope not good, radar waves interact with few objects in the air so that when an airplane comes in their range it's presence is unique, while visible light interacts with too much stuff making the identification of desired objects hard.
the solution to having trouble locking onto something from a hundred kilometers away is probably not to rely on a platform that's more than thirty thousand kilometers away
@@wowfmomf6126 but detection is the main purpose of long wavelength radars right? And 10 centimeter per pixel should be enough to identify the jet. Locking on is something i didn't think about. Maybe laser guided could help that but that probably doesn't really exist yet on satellites.. so that wouldn't be viable anyways. But it may be a solution?
@@AndyHage you need an extremely powerful radar and the means to power it to compensate for the ridiculous increase in distance just so you can get stuck with the task of filtering out even more clutter since instead of pointing a radar up at the sky where you have to figure out what isn't a cloud, you're pointing it down at the ground where you have to filter out approximately everything including the clouds satellite imagery won't help even if it's good enough to see the pilot flip the bird at you. early warning means you want to know what's happening right away, not what happened above the clouds while the sun was up after analyzing all the images heat doesn't give you decent range unless you already know exactly where to look beyond 'somewhere over there', hence why longer-ranged missiles don't rely on heat. laser guidance is the same deal but harsher since you want the laser right on target. both of these are further degraded by crossing approximately the entire atmosphere, so good luck if you're somewhere humid. to add insult to injury, the f35 does things like sink heat with fuel and use nozzles that air-cool the exhaust while it's coming out
what about variable geometry? would it be practical for a fighter to fold canards/tail into a flying wing config to infiltrate and mask it's RCS and then switch to a mnouverable config to evade missiles, drop bombs, etc?
Variable geometry in planes/bombers needs technical parts that have gaps in order to move or extract during heating/flying fast. Gaps are spots for radars to detect.
okay odd question - why not add a Phalanx CIWS defense for planes? Like a M134 minigun that is stored in a retractable pod or turret or enclosure, to shoot down incoming missiles?? Like a Trophy or Iron Fist APS system for tanks, but for planes?
I m no expert but i think it's a weight issue. Considering the volume of ammo used by those things when functioning knowing the ballistic accuracy would be decreased shooting from a flying plane.
I invented a very high performance heat emitting anti missile system on planes. It puts out a lot of heat, so incoming missiles will melt and fail to hit your airplane. GENIUS!
Good video. In air and naval war in the modern age, it's all about sensor ranges and detectability, since the weapons systems have such high probability of kill.
@@hrvojemikulcic7074 At a close distance, it probably would be equal since the returning radar waves haven't cross enough volume of space to disperse sufficiently. But at a long-range, helicopters should have a higher return due to the spinning blades and other irregularities on the surface.
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i know country vs country videos created this channel, but these documentaries on real-life technologies are what's keeping us old fans coming back (at least that's my opinion).
I would disagree, i get very excited when i see a new binkov video and then very disappointed when it isn't country vs country and thus end up skipping it entirely. Each to their own though.
This is by far the most informative video regarding Stealth technology ever.
This has been one of THEE best videos on stealth I have seen yet. I learned something new like how the radar waves can actually travel along the skin almost like water can run along the underside of a flat surface, in small quantities and that's why the F-35's nose looks the way it does. Fascinating.
I really enjoy these more in depth videos discussing aspects of warfare not well understood by many. You should produce more of these type of videos going forward.
I really love the war scenario videos but you can only do so many scenarios before they start becoming gratuitous and less interesting.
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This golf ball analogy is a popular misconception. The plane won't reflect the same radar return from every angle cause its shape is diffirent than a ball. In fact from some angles the reflections of the same plane could go from this "golf ball" to a house size.
Yup, mission planning and managing your emissions returns is key. Gotta wonder if the stealth jets have their own sensors that will give the pilot cues on how to position their plane vs real time threats. Sure they have something just never heard of or looked into it really.
@@Kman31ca Penetration missions are planned ahead with recon and intelligence gathering about all potential threats and their location to determin the optimal flight path. But after all in combat everything is possible, unexpected shit can occur then the pilot asses the situation and decide.
@@Kman31ca The F-35 has extremely comprehensive sensors and data sharing across many platforms, as well as a streamlined pilot VR interface to keep the pilot as well informed as possible. Avoiding giving radar stations (and possibly angles between split radar emiters/recievers) a broadside view of your flat surfaces is key. Plus avoiding giving IR platforms an up-skirt view as well. Low level flight helps immensely though, which is why the F-35 has such a high wing loading, it's very resistant to vertical wind sheer, making treetop level flight safer than most planes.
I expected to have to correct 1001 things in this video. But I don't.
Only thing I'd add is that the proliferation of IRST as a detection method puts a kind of range limit on stealth (at least for jet planes). As such, the F-35 is designed with a moderately weaker focus on RCS than the F-22. Only other possible additions being that stealth influence on designs in the US actually date back to the 1950's. The F-106 for example, has a shockingly small and well managed RCS. And the F-117's angular surface is actually kinda terrible, since triangular edges are much worse than bi-angular edges at re-radiation, and it's about as aerodynamically sound as a flying brick.
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appreciate the level of detail and the accommodating imagery. Great job as usual comrade! One aspect to consider is only technology advanced countries with large budgets can afford stealth. These being Nato countries, Russia, and China. Other countries will in the future focus on defeating stealth given the large expenses with plane design and production.
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Hands down the best video I have seen on the subject. Excellent work!
Please could you do some African conflicts. I keep asking, surely I'm not the only one?
@War Wolf I mean , Egypt ( an African country) is among the top 10 strongest militaries soooo
Thanks for this, people really needed to know what stealth actually means and not the movies 😂
I think the next Challenge in the Fighter Jet design is how to get rid of the Loud noise it generates in the sky.
The entire surface of the F-35 is designed to serve as a transmitter/receiver. They are also meant to fly 3-4 at a time in order to enhance their ability. The plane is in an entirely different class and function even to the F-22.
B-2 bomber is simply cool. If you aren't paying attention and you look up and see one flying over all of a sudden you likely to go, "What the heck is that!?" Before realizing what it is a few seconds later. lol
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Basically you are discussing High PRF vs Low PRF if I remember my military training. PRF is what we called it anyway.. for example High PRF is fire control Radar, Low PRF is Surveillance Radar... For those that don't know PRF is Pulse Repetition Factor...
that was the greatest segway into the sponsor. how long were were you planning this for? its perfect!
You did a ton of research on this! Great job dude !
Great job Binkov. One of the most ineresting foreign channels about weapons. Although im able to uderstand only 80%, what are you talking about, because of the language (im russian), i love your channel for your almost perfect diction. I learn english, watching your videos.
Благодарю за труд! Отличный голос и дикция.
funny how Binkov may speak your language but for the sake of international appeal we're all using English (i'm not a native English speaker).
Hi ! This video is one of the best I've seen on this subjet and I'm really interested in stealth tech. For an oral exam next year I'm planning to talk about stealth technologies and your video is a good source for me. Could you give some of your sources so I can expand my knowledge on the subject ? Thanks, also keep on with the good work (am French, so I'm sorry if I made mistakes)
Go into the literature and learn physics
@@Julle399 I wanna go in engineering newt year but I have to finish high school (French here ) and I need to find the litterature you are talking about. That's why I am asking for a wee bit of help
One of the best explanations so far
Low-frequency bands are effective against stealth, and works in less desirable weathers and is long-ranged, but it have limitations: mobility of the radar platform, resolution (accuracy and precision). Extremely high-frequency bands, even higher than the X-Band are also effective against stealth, but it also have limitations: short-range, power consumption, susceptibility to weathers, and modern stealth planes can deal with it.
That's why air defense is no substitute for a good air force. Modern stealth planes carry standoff weapons, and use its advanced ESM to stay away from the radar. So you have to invest a lot in the radar placement, which will eventually add up and become just as expensive as procuring a lot of stealth planes. Early warning radars can detect stealth planes at longer ranged, but it doesn't have the accuracy to guide missiles, so even if it cue its findings to the engagement radar, it may still not be able to shoot the stealth plane down since engagement/fire control radars use X and C-Bands, which stealth planes optimized against, it simply doesn't have the range to get a lock even if surveillance and early warning radars knew the general direction of the plane. Basically, you can see the stealth plane, but unless it fly close to you, you won't be able to do anything about it. That's why it's important to also invest in procuring interceptor aircraft, because any competent pilot of the stealth plane will stay outside the range of the engagement/fire control radars. If your early warning/surveillance radar detected a stealth plane, but enemy's stealth plane is too far away for your engagement/fire control radar and missiles to reach, you have to send your interceptor aircraft.
Stealth aircraft also lose a lot in different aspects, because of their construction. First of all, with their price (and in particular the total monopoly of Lockheed Martin in the west, that drives the price through the roof) most air forces are unable to replace 4th generation fighters with nearly the same numbers of F-35. Quantity has a quality of it's own, and that means every loss is a powerful blow to their user.
Secondly, weapon bays. They not only impact aerodynamic performance, relying on them means that your total missile load is less than half of a F-15 or Su-27. Opponent's planes can go turn around when shot at, waste your ammo (they are able to escape thanks to their overall better energy perfomance), and simultainously return fire with a bigger quantity of missiles. After one exchange, the side employing stealth fighters can be already out of ammunition.
The impact of construction on the energy and maneuvrability can be mitigated in different ways, and 2-engined fighters will be vastly superior here. So flying like a brick is more of a problem of a single plane (single engine F-35), than the whole concept.
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Fair point, but the F-35 has a similar thrust-to-weight ratio to the F-16 when adjusted for the fuel capacity, it's no flying brick, many pilots pointed out that the F-35's kinematic performance is very similar to the F/A-18, allowing it to perform a certain post-stall maneuver that F-15 and F-16 can't, thanks to its all-moving horizontal tails. And at least from a rough calculation, it seems to be able to out-accelerate the SU-27 in subsonic region. Stealth planes' overall design is not as aerodynamic as non-stealth planes of a similar capability, but it's somewhat offset by a lack of parasitic drag from external load. The F-22 can carry as much air-to-air missiles as a Eurofighter, and the F-35 will have the Sidekick installed sometimes in early-to-mind 2020s, allowing it carry up to 6 AMRAAM equivalent internally in total. Non-stealth fighters will have to carry weapons externally, creating drag and higher radar return, and the increased drag and weight will reduce the range of the aircraft. That's why F-18, F-16, and F-15 never actually filled their hardpoints in combat because they can't get a meaningful range out of it. There's no point carrying 10 guns if you can only hobble it for a short distance.
Also, the stealth plane can get into the range of its missile's no-escape zone against opponent's non-stealth aircraft, allowing a high probability of hit. BVR is mostly useful against large aircraft, such as bombers, AWACS, and tankers. Against fighter-sized targets, it must get closer, and to reduce the chance of your enemy employing the same tactic, having a stealth plane is a good idea.
@@mickeyg7219 Stealth aircrafts should be used as intercepters, i agree. But they are too expensive to be a front-line fighter. If it's all up to WVR, stealthiness has no mean. Their duty should be intercepting by getting close before being detected and supporting agile, cheap (that's why many) fighters to start their close combat.
Fighter mafia members once simulated a close combat between F-15's and F-5's that are worth the same price in total. For example 1 F-15 vs 10 F-5. And F-5 was the winner. Higher quality and price is defeat in this incident. So there must be diversity among aircrafts. If a stealth aircraft is requested to carry more weapon by compromising stealthines
why is this aircraft exist in the first place? There are so many aircraft can carry tons of weapons without stealth feature.
In future combat rules may change. Laser weapons may chance everything we think about WVR. But fundamental rules will remain same, if the aircraft is more agile it's ability to survive a missile is more. A fronline fighter also doesn't need to much weapons because in combat with 200 fighters launching missiles each other, probably aircrafts won't be flying for long. They should face the enemy with agile characteristics and get support from the interceptors with their long-range missiles. Surviving fighters can get fuel from a tanker, this isn't a big deal after managing a combat.
@@mickeyg7219 By brick I meant excessive energy bleed during maneuvers. If the lightning 2 has to turn tail and dodge a BVR missile, it likely won't climb back into the fight because of how inferior it is in this department. Comparing it to a viper really doesn't help your case, as it is also not an energy fighter, but a one engine multirole. It is a one trick pony, and the expensive trick it does is under a threat of multiple technical ways to detect it, which can be perfected at any time of it's service. And they project it to serve for 30 years?? Thanks lockheed, my greatest ally
@@bogdanbogdanoff5164 wanna know how i can tell you didn't read the post you replied to
jk you obviously walked in with the clueless notion that f35s are one-trick ponies so it's not like explaining anything to you a second time would matter
Dear lord, your content is absolute gold
Hey man, you seem to have not colored the Isle of Man blue during the intro of the video.
That was a great analysis on stealth tech. Bravo!
Well what we're seeing is passive stealth. There's also the concept of active stealth, with wave cancellation techniques being used to defeat enemy radar by emitting an out-of-phase signal back at the emitter. But I think that would require a very powerful and very fast computer onboard the aircraft to analyze the incoming wave and quickly emit the cancelling wave back at the emitter. Probably not feasible at this moment. Perhaps when quantum computer become more widely available, and in more compact form factors.
But if this could be done, we would not have to deal with performance or aerodynamic compromises. You could put this equipment into something like a Su-35 or F-15 and make it invisible.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050919302170
That's exactly US stealth tech had adopted,,
Active STEALTH is a RADAR JAMMING capability..
only SUPER COMPUTER/ AVIONIC and powerful RADAR can do that's TASK..
@@riorazzer1090 Not radar jamming. That's been around for a long time. ECM.
Broadcast signals and white noise over the radar's frequency to produce false returns.
But everybody knows you're around once you've flipped on the ECM. And missiles such as the HARM can be designed to home-on-jam.
I'm talking about real-time analysis and processing of an incoming radar signal, and then emitting back an out-of-phase signal to cancel out the returns.
No one knows you're there.
Pretty decent video on stealth without diving too deep into technicalities. Reminds me of some parts from the 3 parts stealth article I read on AW&ST a while back. Could have used a little explanation on "Full aspect Vs partial aspect" stealth... or another video on it 🤔
Surprised much of this wasn't classified! Great video!
When I google RAM, all I get is goat videos and when I google stealth, all I get is some fucking skyrim videos.
Instead of RAM use Radar Absorbing Material. Instead of Stealth, use Low-observable. Of course, I believe the original comment to be a joke.
S-70 Okhotnik: exists
US fighter pilot: it's a free real -estate- practice target
Mebbe from the rear aspect ?
@@rigormortis6481 do you mean that s70 is like a flying dee1-doh and a us pilot would like to stick that in their bum or what?
@@freedomvanguard8185 don't understand the jargon used. But yeah, frontally and sometimes that is all that matters for a drone, S 70 , especially 4 S 70's with a Su 57 looks good. Well, ofc the US has something better, mebbe yes. But still more than good enough.
@@rigormortis6481 Aahah, okay, nevermind that ;)
They may look good, but please, don't forget that basically, Su 57 is made around an old soviet-era tech, such as mig 29 or similar. Also, those birds will never get into mass production because russia is a 3rd world country (huge? duh) with resource-based economy, incapable of a modern manufacturing. It's a miracle that it somehow managed to copicat chinese j20 and a us drone
@@freedomvanguard8185 umm..wot ? I wuldn't really say who copied what. That much is pretty apparent and known. Regardless, continue to underestimate whatever whoever.
Yeah, looks good; and in a couple of years will carry, say around 3000 kg of ordinance. Looks REAL good then yeah !
F-22 uses both special foam, radar absolution coating, and high carbon composite materials.
F-35 Lot 4 uses both special CNT (carbon-nanotube) meta-materials and radar absolution coating.
@DarkAgit Backup No one has made that claim. It just gives stealth planes the advantage of being able to see the enemy far further away than they see you.
@@Kman31ca "immortal to radars" is particularly amusing because it looks like it's saying that f35s can now be cooked by radar
Amazing as usual Comissar. Thumbs up!
One interesting question is whether networked planes could stand far apart so that one could listen for diffuse returns while the other broadcasts radar. This would seem to defeat most techniques shown here.
Since a radar wave is detected by reflecting back perpendicular to the source radar emitting the signal, by linking several radars to a computer system to be able to receive data from each other could you not increase visibility of aircraft, even stealthy? They could triangulate from their various locations to obtain fairly accurate position surely? With the right software surely you could perform 'machine learning' and learn various radar signatures and be able to get a sufficient position and trajectory for even targeting, by linking all the various radar and different bandwidths of available radar. All you need is a significant network of radar stations. So good for national air defences, but even in foreign territory have several dispersed radar units. Am I missing something critical here? Wouldn't this make stealth almost useless?
The cost of actually saturating an area with radar coverage to the degree you're proposing might see through stealth most of the time, but then an enemy will just start building $15million drones that can be economically sacrificed by throwing them into the grinder. So long as they destroy some of the radar coverage then the stealth is suddenly applicable again and the enemy spent less to destroy the radars than you spent building them. Also, because you are firing missiles at the drones, you are telling the enemy where your missile launchers are located.
In reality these radars are used to help defend key positions.
motmontheinternet Yes not an unreasonable point you make! Whatever technology exists there'll always be ways to try and counter it. And then there's a way to counter the counter. And so it goes, ad infinitum....
Yes. Except for the targeting part. Not sure how much is wise to say on that topic. But your comment kinda defines much of the escalation process in this arena. Ultimately it's a measures & countermeasures spending arms race. If you have more money to work with, or you deploy a measure who's countermeasure is more costly than the measure, you're playing to win.
,,Very, very good, very impressive." -Vovochen
I have been working on a 6th gen concept and this is somewhat useful
Turque vs Syria
Nice, now I want to see stealth capability analysis of the current stealth fighter based on open saurce data.
Video about 6th generation fighters
Please do UK vs Japan! Their spending is similar, but the British forces are much more geared to offence than Japan. British can use regional bases to balance manpower.
Second Korean War(USA+Japan+ROK vs DPRK+Russia+China)
CELAC(Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) vs USA
i want to design my own stealth jet now...
US: F-22’s F-35’s, B-2’s, B-21’s and all of the US Stealth Drones!!!!
Russian/Chinese/Iran/North Korea: Oh my!
Michael Estala stealth drones are used for refueling only so far. China and Russia both has stealth technology.
Chengdu J 20/ sukhoi pak fa // shenyang J31 coff coff
LOL 1000 But they are still far behind the US in terms of technology. China steals most of their technology, but reverse engineering doesn’t mean they’ve truly understand and mastered the techniques needed to perfect it. Russia has fantastic engineering capabilities (My money would be on a Pak-FA over a J-20 any day) but because of economic issues they aren’t able to put the resources needed to mass produce their aircraft. A J-20 was detected by an Indian (Russian designed) Su-30 in 2018.
Dallin Shepherd i know f35 is invencible even there are some black stealth hawks around there. B2 is also one of the best in its kind.
J-20 was detected but India fighters and ground radar, the SU-57 has also been detected by Israeli radars, I wouldn’t say China and Russia are close to a stealth fighter
modern deceptive jammers can copy an incoming pulse then emit a distorted version to the seeker-head on the missile to confuse it...move...counter-move [laser seekers could change the game]
You are talking about track-breaking radar jammers, and the technology for that is at LEAST 50 years old. It was used in Vietnam as the ALQ-51 and ALQ-100, and later as the ALQ-126.
Apprently VHF frequnicies can detect stealth aircraft at longer ranges
VHF will get many false positives from weather conditions (e.g. the Davis VHF radar). And even if you do detect a plane, because of the poor resolution you do not know how many planes, what type, or what heading or velocity. You still need a more accurate fire control radar as you cannot fire a missile at where a plane is, but rather you must fire the missile where it's likely to be in order to make a successful intercept. VHF radars are also big and relatively immobile - easy targets. If the Gulf Wars any indication of US operation, early warning radars didn't help the Iraqis. They were blinded or disabled before the air campaign even began. Not that it really mattered as all it could tell the Iraqis were they were stuffed; the skies were full of wild weasles, decoy drones, cruise missiles, jamming aircraft / munitions, and anti-radar munitions that float in the air and destroy any active radars. Meanwhile, the Nighthawks were very successful evading defenses and hitting the heavily defended Republican Guard positions around Baghdad.
Do Liechtenstein vs the rest of the world
Rest of the world declares war on Liechtenstein. Switzerland uses blackmail, Power of Money ability activates, turning it into Global Revolution
It's Super Effective.
Rest of the World faints.
Great video! Very informative.. thank you!
So when will we see the deployment of the next generation radar?
The big problem with lowering the radar cross section by only an order of magnitude using special materials is that diffuse return of a signal is proportional to distance to the fourth power, which increases very rapidly as distance decreases. So that's only really a 44% reduction in detection range. Significant, yes, but not really decisive as an advantage. Roughly the same advantage that wearing dark clothing would give you against an adversary with a flashlight.
Peter Smythe Interesting
44% is a lot when you are flying at mach 1.5
hmm, this gets me a thinking, perhaps it might be possible to make a machine that creates false radar signatures so that it looks like in one direction you are being attacked by legions of aircraft that aren't there leaving other areas open to attack
The allies did something similar to this with chaff and balloons during the d day invasion. They dropped tons of chaff and had reflective balloons far up the coast from normandy to make it look like the main invasion force was coming across there. Here is a link about it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day_naval_deceptions#Glimmer_and_Taxable
Yea that's what decoys mean
I think that is also what jamming aircrafts do, the basically send false radar returns
Yeah, but you must know exactly what signals to return, because the enemy surely knows what a true radar return looks like.
In fact, chaff is becoming less and less effective to confuse missiles, because the missile guidance system takes into account things like the speed of the wave and the Doppler effect. Chaff doesn't move at the same speed as an aircraft, and with that parameter alone, it can be easily filtered out.
You can, however, just saturate the everloving fuck of the electromagnetic spectrum, and hope that the enemy is out of anti-radiation missiles.
Can you make video about russian army strenghts and weaknesses?
In the final part of the video it is stated that the stealth technology would be composed by shape + shape + material + material but I would reduce the shape to just one and three materials. I found an article about a Soviet mathematician named Pyotr Yakovlevich Ufimtsev, who in 1960s began developing equations for predicting the reflection of electromagnetic waves from simple two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects. Much of Ufimtsev's work was translated into English, and in the 1970s American Lockheed engineers began to expand upon some of his theories to create the concept of aircraft with reduced radar signatures. A stealth engineer at Lockheed, Denys Overholser, had read the publication and realized that Ufimtsev had created the mathematical theory and tools to do finite analysis of radar reflection. This discovery inspired and had a role in the design of the first true stealth aircraft, the Lockheed F-117. Northrop also used Ufimtsev's work to program super computers to predict the radar reflection of the B-2 bomber. So the anterior gives us the idea of how the " shape " into the stealth technology is mature enough, the next is the RAM (Radar Absorbing Materials).
You're absolutely right . In fact , Pyotr Ufimtsev is the father of stealth technology . He was , actually , the chief designer of both the F-117A and the B-2 . He defected to the west when his designs ( principals for F-117 , back then Project Have Blue ) were rejected by the Soviet MoD . Back in his time all his equations and research was focused on how to make the aircraft's aerodynamical design to reflect waves .
@@sovietunion8158 You are full of crap and you know it as well as most that read your pathetic attempt of propaganda. While he did "develop equations for predicting the reflection of electromagnetic waves from simple two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects", he was in no way affiliated with the design of actual aircraft, and was living in the USSR when the F117 & B2 were designed by Lockheed and Northrop respectively. The fact that the USSR did not realize the possible implications of his work, and allowed his writings to be publicized internationally, was a colossal fuck-up of major proportions." Much of Ufimtsev's work was translated into English, and in the 1970s American Lockheed engineers began to expand upon some of his theories to create the concept of aircraft with reduced radar signatures." Thanks to the SOVIET UNION's blunder, the US has the most stealthy aircraft on the planet.
@@etech2xwon59 Stealth is old tech now . Dis you know back in 2017 a Russian Air Force Su-35S had an F-22A Block 40 Raptor on its IRST screen for 11 minutes without the Raptor even being aware of its presence ?
And you can read Ufimtsev's biography and watch his documentaries .
@@sovietunion8158 The Raptor was definitely aware of the Su-35S's presence. There was simply no reason to react because we are not at war with each other and it is *never* a 1vs1 situation.
@@dumdumbinks274 It was not aware of its presence because the Su-35S had turned of its radar . It detected the Raptor using passive measures ( IRST ) which are undetectable .
Do a video or Series of time wars like medeaval vs modern or ww2 vs medeaval or germany vs rome or modern US vs 1800 British empire or something like that
The University of vmanchester developed a graphne coating that can absoeb radar signals.
Wow superb! And fascinating...
The f-35 is lower rcs than f-22 you are correct binko.
Wait, really??? You sure???
You asked at the beginning shape or materials as far as stealth working it's a bit of both but if you can ionize the air around the craft you will go invisible.
Yeah but if ionize the air around you (plasma) you also staets lighting in some spectrums
Thank You, Binkov
Make a video with SU-70.
Little addition, the F-117 was only faceted because of limitations of then current computer simulations. Only a few years later Northrop had Tacit Blue flying.
Please do Asean VS China
China outnumbered ASEAN 2-1 in warships and nearly 5-1 in fighter jets. The only nation in ASEAN with dedicated attack aircraft is Myanmar who is more likely to side with China than fight China.
Unfortunately for ASEAN, without Indian or American/Japanese intervention, it’s pretty hopeless.
Can you do more country vs country battles?
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Stealth is for virgins. If it was me, I'd make an aircraft that would amplify its radar cross section to the point where the enemy would think they are being invaded by the alien saucer from Independence Day.
You made me laugh
They'll just think you're AWACS.
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I want video that korean and Japanese Military Science technology, thier whats plannings and thier capability
ex) radar, aegis ships, missiles, F-3,KFX,KDDX,30FFM program and so on
Korean and Japanese military technology... As far as planes are concerned... Bought U.S. planes. Especially the fighters. lol.
Both derive their fighter jet project heavily from US, copy/reverse engineer
Do propellers show up a lot on the radar?
yes
Hello! , this was uploading yesterday
Do Brazil vs Argentina
Brazil would win? Argentina has horrible readiness rates.
@@kurousagi8155 true. And Arg is sabotating their own military, while Brazil bought fighters from Sweden and developing cruise missiles
Can you maybe ever do US and China vs the rest of the World?
If early detection of stealth jets with radar is hard, why not switch over to satellites? Maybe even satellites seeming stationary over a territory?
With cameras good enough to measure the length of a person via a shadow a long time ago they should be able to identify what aircraft is flying where.
Would heat detection be possible too at near vacuum and what is the range of a heat detector like FLIR? As far as I know there are no stealth jets that don't produce heat while burning through that jet fuel.
Andy Hage nope not good, radar waves interact with few objects in the air so that when an airplane comes in their range it's presence is unique, while visible light interacts with too much stuff making the identification of desired objects hard.
the solution to having trouble locking onto something from a hundred kilometers away is probably not to rely on a platform that's more than thirty thousand kilometers away
@@wowfmomf6126 but detection is the main purpose of long wavelength radars right? And 10 centimeter per pixel should be enough to identify the jet. Locking on is something i didn't think about. Maybe laser guided could help that but that probably doesn't really exist yet on satellites.. so that wouldn't be viable anyways. But it may be a solution?
Thanks both for replying to my question!
@@AndyHage you need an extremely powerful radar and the means to power it to compensate for the ridiculous increase in distance just so you can get stuck with the task of filtering out even more clutter since instead of pointing a radar up at the sky where you have to figure out what isn't a cloud, you're pointing it down at the ground where you have to filter out approximately everything including the clouds
satellite imagery won't help even if it's good enough to see the pilot flip the bird at you. early warning means you want to know what's happening right away, not what happened above the clouds while the sun was up after analyzing all the images
heat doesn't give you decent range unless you already know exactly where to look beyond 'somewhere over there', hence why longer-ranged missiles don't rely on heat. laser guidance is the same deal but harsher since you want the laser right on target. both of these are further degraded by crossing approximately the entire atmosphere, so good luck if you're somewhere humid. to add insult to injury, the f35 does things like sink heat with fuel and use nozzles that air-cool the exhaust while it's coming out
Yep, "shape, shape, shape..." Eurofighter = LOL!
Thanks!
Do some southeast Asia episodes
ASEAN VS CHINA
Stealthy is not only radar absorbation.
what about variable geometry? would it be practical for a fighter to fold canards/tail into a flying wing config to infiltrate and mask it's RCS and then switch to a mnouverable config to evade missiles, drop bombs, etc?
Variable geometry in planes/bombers needs technical parts that have gaps in order to move or extract during heating/flying fast. Gaps are spots for radars to detect.
Please make video about Turkey Vs Syria hypothetical war. Who would win ?
okay odd question - why not add a Phalanx CIWS defense for planes? Like a M134 minigun that is stored in a retractable pod or turret or enclosure, to shoot down incoming missiles?? Like a Trophy or Iron Fist APS system for tanks, but for planes?
I m no expert but i think it's a weight issue. Considering the volume of ammo used by those things when functioning knowing the ballistic accuracy would be decreased shooting from a flying plane.
due to weight, aero-drag, structural and internal volume considerations
Maybe for bomber it may work.
I invented a very high performance heat emitting anti missile system on planes. It puts out a lot of heat, so incoming missiles will melt and fail to hit your airplane. GENIUS!
The F-35 has an active radar cancellation system. that is why it is more stealthy than the F-22.
Good video. In air and naval war in the modern age, it's all about sensor ranges and detectability, since the weapons systems have such high probability of kill.
Simple, just ask Gijain to program it
12:36 I just noticed that the SR-71 has its tail elements pointing inwards, reflecting any radar way uprwards. Though this thing fly very high.
That, or downwards directly into more of the plane
Can be installed a FLIR camera (range of FLIR camera will be around 20 km-more or less) on radar to measure temperature in the cold air!?
20 km is close enough for your normal radar to see the stealth plane. Further than this, you probably need something else.
@Ace of Spades Thanks.
@@mickeyg7219 Can one question? Does helicopter has same stealth radar signature like F 35 or equal signature on radar screen?
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At a close distance, it probably would be equal since the returning radar waves haven't cross enough volume of space to disperse sufficiently. But at a long-range, helicopters should have a higher return due to the spinning blades and other irregularities on the surface.
Great video. This 2 video series is excellent - thanks for all of your work.
RIP speakers.. also, awesome segway :D
Do world war one scenario plz!
Usa vs China and Eu(with Uk)
Nice video bro
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A really well researched video, thanks russian kermit