Originally Posted by
itsnotthatbloodyhard
Just looks like the fantasy of one of those people who always has to write ‘BBRRRTTT!’ in the comments section of any A-10 video/article.
LMAO, thanks.
As much fun as it is to doodle, giving a system stealth is a relatively well established concept, which is breached in the wishful thinking image at least 16 times, which begs the question as to what is it supposed to be, as it isn't stealthy or stealth like. Luke Skywalker's X fighter was probably more stealth like, and more likely to see the light of day. RCSR by shaping alone scrubs out most of the fun stuff in the pikky. RCSR by RAM is frequency specific, so that gets workarounds.... AMC and FSS methods are equally tuned, so don't like any agility in the signal. Shaping remains one of the best methods but not only method to reduce RCS, by reducing incident ray backscatter. All well n' good, but not altering optical detection. We are still removed from turbulence and wake/efflux thermal detection as far as I am aware but that could be out of date, in other areas they are used effectively for tracking. Down in the weeds where there is a need to be, the other team gets to see the wagon and can plink away with optional aimed stuff, like an AK or star-streak style welcoming mats, which can be very effective in spoiling social calendars.
If the intent is to drop stuff from mid levels, then use a reduced RCS MQ-x, "with internal load". Some smart messing about with props can give purty nice RCS reduction along with occasional variation of RPM... or change the MQ design to be a bit smarter with the prop set up than it has been. ( back in the 90's there was this design... had some stability issues, but dang, if in retrospect Charles had some good ideas, pity it all stopped with a nosedive into the planet from said stability issues, but... we worked later with the thrust system and that would be interesting to put in the chamber down Eglin way... a stealth MQ would be "summit grand, eh!"