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Aviation Week is reporting that Northrop Gruman has won a big contract to build the Next Generation Bomber
http://aviationweek.com/aw/generic/s...DTI-Bomber.xml
http://aviationweek.com/aw/generic/s...DTI-Bomber.xml
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This was interesting. "{An RCS} one tenth that of a mosquito." Just wait till the mosquito's develop stealth too to get back in the game.
Based on the development costs for this kind of technology, I wonder how many the U.S. will be able to afford. (B-2's cost well over $1B, so it's not an idle consideration.)How low can LO go? One paper, co-authored by a principal in DenMar Inc., the company founded by Stealth pioneer Denys Overholser, refers to the development of fasteners for a body with an RCS of -70 dB./sq. meter -- one-thousandth of the -40 dB. associated with the JSF, and one-tenth that of a mosquito. DTI queried RCS engineers who don't believe such numbers are possible; but then, when mention of a -30 dB. signature leaked out in a 1981 Northrop paper, nobody believed that either.
U.S. Air Force, here's your fleet of 1 (one) bomber. Use it wisely, and don't break it because you're not getting another one.
Terry
Lurking at JP since the BA 777 at Heathrow and AD lost responsiveness to the throttles.
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? Sherlock Holmes
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