Re: [Fwd: flanker New China Radar technology threatens US Stealth Aircraft!]

It doesn't surprise me at all.	The theory behind multi-faceted stealth
design (aka stealth fighter, F 117) was developed by a Russian
mathematician.	The Soviet military rejected it because it would be easy
to develop ways to detect it.  One of the methods suggested was by the
difference in background clutter from where the stealth aircraft is. 
The latest method developed by the Chinese is a quite believable
extension.

The purpose of Stealth is to be able to fly attack aircraft without
escorts.  Well, after one F 117 was shot down in Serbia, all stealth
aircraft
(F 117 and B 2) were escorted.	Stealth is a multi-trillion dollar
failure.

IAS