Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

Electromagnetic waves can not only be reflected but also absorbed. Of course, finding a suitable stealth coating is not easy. The Americans also spent a long time finding a ferrite coating. This coating has the highest efficiency in absorbing electromagnetic waves and can also adapt to the needs of aircraft.

Not just any coating can be used on airplanes. After all, airplanes face very special conditions. For example, on the ground, normal temperature is fine, but at high altitudes, the temperature will drop to tens of degrees below zero. And the friction between the front of the plane and the air will generate frictional heat of one or two hundred degrees. Even ordinary paint cannot adapt to this change, let alone meet the needs of stealth.

Therefore, the development of stealth coatings is not easy. The first stealth coating developed by the Americans was black. This was for the F117. This type of aircraft was originally flown at night, so there was no problem. But if a fighter jet is painted black, it would be a bit awkward.

Change? A slight change may lead to other problems. Meeting the requirements for high-temperature use may not meet the requirements for low temperatures. Meeting the requirements for both high and low temperatures may significantly reduce stealth performance. It's like moving one part affects the whole body.

Therefore, the development of stealth coatings is very difficult.

"Stealth coating? We don't have any experience with that," Old Lin frowned.

Not to mention stealth coatings, even stealth shapes are lacking in experience. This is not something Qin Yang can solve with a few words. It requires calculation. In fact, the first person to propose this stealth shape algorithm was the old Russian, but unfortunately, they didn't value it. Later, the Americans learned about it and considered it a treasure, developing the F117 according to these algorithms. The shape of this aircraft is angular because the computer power at the time was insufficient, and the calculation ability was limited. They could only use several faces to combine, resulting in that shape, which made many people frown: Can this thing fly? In their eyes, this thing is simply a hoax.

Later, with the advancement of computers, the shape of the F22 became much more attractive. Just stretching the skin of an ordinary airplane could improve it.

At this time, hearing Old Lin's words, Qin Yang smiled: "Yes, we have no experience, so we still need to wait. When we get someone else's stealth aircraft from the battlefield, we can copy it."

Someone else's stealth aircraft! These words surprised countless people even more.

"President Qin, someone else has a stealth aircraft? The United States or the Soviet Union?"

Don't even think about other countries. The top-tier countries are the United States and the Soviet Union. Do they have it?

Plasma?

The usual states of matter are solid, liquid, or gas, but these are just the common ones. There are also some special states, and plasma is one of them. This state can prevent electromagnetic waves from passing through, so electromagnetic waves won't know what they've encountered.

"Put a special plasma generator on the nose of the fighter jet. When needed, turn it on. This way, the fighter jet can cover the entire layer of plasma during flight, wrapping the fighter jet, and the outside won't be able to see the fighter jet."

Although the old Russian first proposed the electromagnetic wave reflection formula, providing the technical theory for stealth aircraft, they didn't use it. Because they felt that it was unnecessary to modify the shape for stealth. They had their own means to solve this problem, which is plasma stealth technology.

Now, Qin Yang has said this method.

"Not good." Old Lin immediately shook his head. "If we use this method, wouldn't it mean that our own electromagnetic waves can't get out either?"

Sure enough, Old Lin had unique insight and saw the problem at a glance.

The plasma stealth technology proposed by the old Russian has never been realized. In addition to the collapse of the Red Empire, there are many other problems. For example, this technology is not useful at all!

While the outside world can't see you, you can't see the outside world either! This is the same as the invisibility cloaks mentioned in many science fiction novels, which can distort light, thus bypassing yourself.

What's the use of bypassing? If the light is bypassed, how can you see the outside world? Plasma stealth technology also has this embarrassment. If electromagnetic waves can't pass through, then the aircraft inside still doesn't know what's happening outside. The aircraft inside can't use its own radar to detect the outside situation, and it can't receive radio calls or data link information.

Such technology is meaningless.

Then why did the old Russian still want this technology?

That depends on the old Russian's thinking. In the eyes of the old Russian, stealth aircraft are simply nonsense. This type of aircraft should not exist at all. Therefore, they don't need to cater to an ethereal stealth feature.

The fourth-generation aircraft is a huge project. The Americans may be able to compete with several companies. For the old Russian, concentrating the power of the whole country is only enough to support the Mikoyan Design Bureau to develop the MiG 1.42 project. It's difficult for them to develop a normal fourth-generation aircraft, let alone consider any stealth features.

Therefore, they simply don't care. If it's really needed, they'll use plasma stealth technology to cover up their shame.

Not to mention this era, even in later generations, when stealth aircraft fill the sky, the old Russian still doesn't believe in those ridiculously high indicators, such as the equivalent radar cross-section area being only 0.001 square meters, smaller than the pilot's helmet. Nonsense!

Our Su-57's equivalent radar cross-section area has been reduced to 0.5 square meters, which is already good enough. It's enough to use. We don't need to cater to your designs. We have to take our own route.

Now, Qin Yang was still planning to brag, but Old Lin saw the limitations of this technology at a glance, so he could only smile helplessly: "Okay, the technical route I mentioned won't work. Everyone, we've been talking for so long, we're all hungry."

They had been drinking the cold wind here for long enough, and now it was time to drink something hot.

Old Lin nodded: "That's right, next we'll go eat. President Qin, let's go to the cafeteria, and we'll talk while we eat!"

This is a military base, so of course there is a cafeteria, and there is also a special cafeteria for pilots. Since they were going to entertain Qin Yang, they couldn't be too shabby. Old Lin led everyone to the pilot's cafeteria.