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Originally posted by cyberdude78
ultrasonic radar
Originally posted by devilwasp
not really. a seawolf would be found by a kilo long before the kilo would be found.
although the only kilo's in service are not, how to say this , the best equiped if they were it would make them almost undetectable.
Originally posted by FredT
If I recall, the Russians tried to use Kilo class ships to break the CUban blockade during the missile crisis and all were found and forced to surface before they reached Cuba. However, I may have gotten the class mixed up
Originally posted by cyberdude78
Well I'm not to sure about the radar for detecting stealths but I think they operated with a much higher frequency or something than normal radar. I should look this up sometime. I just saw some quick section on it in some book. BTW wasn't the flying wing concept of our precious B-2s thought up by Germany during WWII. I have also heard that for a while Russia used wooden biplanes for short range stealth ops. Because they were wooden the Germans had no idea they were there in WWII. Primitive but effective.
Originally posted by Starwars50
An interesting note is that the inital research showing that radar could be deflected (and the source of the calculations used in both the F-117 and B-2) is a russian scientific paper (from the 60's I think
Originally posted by FredT
Jack Northrop also had a few flying wing designs.