Any other country which posses planes invisble on radar?
2006-12-12 02:26:56 · 4 answers · asked by Talha 4 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
Although stealth technology has since become less effective, the United States, Russia, China, India, and several other nations continue to develop stealth aircraft.
Manned
Fully stealth designs:
Have Blue - Lockheed (developed into F-117)
Tacit Blue - Northrop (technology demonstrator reconnaissance plane)
F-117 Nighthawk - Lockheed - fighter-bomber (in service)
B-2 Spirit - Northrop-Grumman - strategic bomber (in service)
A-12 Avenger II - McDonnell-Douglas / General Dynamics (cancelled)
MBB Lampyridae - West German stealth fighter prototype (cancelled during wind tunnel tests in 1988)
Bird of Prey - Boeing (technology demonstrator)
Reduced RCS designs:
Horten Ho 229 - a German design of 1944, and perhaps the first basic stealth design
Northrop YB-49 - like the Ho 229, this USAF bomber's stealthy characteristics were not the result of intentional design
De Havilland Mosquito - British light bomber and ground attack plane of wooden construction, low RCS against early radars.
Antonov An-2 - Wooden propellor and canvas wings give it a minimal radar signature.
SR-71 Blackbird - Lockheed Advanced Development Projects High-speed reconnaissance aircraft. RCS equal to or better than the B-1B
Eurofighter - EADS (in service)
F-22 Raptor - Lockheed-Martin / Boeing (in service)
YF-23 Black Widow II - Northrop / MDD (prototype built, lost competition to YF-22, almost full stealth, may resurrect as a fast bomber)
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter - Lockheed-Martin (under development)
Dassault Rafale - French air force and naval fighter bomber
Medium Combat Aircraft - Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (under development) Indian Air Force stealthy 5th generation combat aircraft optimised for strike missions.
MiG Project 1.44 "Flatpack" - Mikoyan-Gurevich (prototype), possibly full stealth with plasma shield
J-10 - Chengdu Aircraft Industry Corporation (projected twin engine design for stealth missions)
T-50 / PAK-FA - Sukhoi (under development, Russian-Indian counterpart of US F-22 Raptor, possibly plasma shielded)
F-16 C/D and E/F - from Block 30 has got reduced RCS to about 1 m2
F/A-18 C/D and E/F - both have reduced RCS, believed be to similar to F-16C's, but F/A-18 E/F is believed to have more advanced technology, but the aircraft is larger so the aircraft might (and might not) have the same RCS as F/A-18C/D
MiG-29 SMT - has got similar to F-16C/D reduced RCS
Unmanned (full stealth)
Boeing X-45 - Boeing - based on the manned Boeing Bird of Prey demonstrator (technology demonstrator)
RQ-3 Dark Star - Lockheed / Skunk Works (cancelled)
Dassault AVE-D Petit Duc - Dassault Aviation (tactical UAV)
Dassault nEUROn - Dassault / Saab / EAB / Alenia / EADS CASA / RUAG / Thales (technology demonstrator)
Future and current work into UAVs and UCAVs feature great focus into stealth technology.
2006-12-12 02:29:10 · answer #1 · answered by iliandraeq 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Russia has been using stealth tech upgrades on MIG 21s and MIG 31s with the US style radar absorbing coatings. They also are rumored to be developing stealth using plasma fields generated around the aircraft.
2006-12-12 02:35:35 · answer #2 · answered by boonietech 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The UK, Israel, Russia and China are all known to have stealth technology. NO plane is completely invisible to RADAR. It's all about minimizing the signature so it will be either mistaken for something else much smaller or discounted as noise by the equipment itself.
2006-12-12 02:30:24 · answer #3 · answered by Aegis 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We don't know because we can't detect them :O
2006-12-12 02:28:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋