Where is all gambit cheerleaders? Dumbfounded after j20blackdragon explanation?
Now...Here is how you guys are going to be dumbfounded...By real physics and logical thinking...
First, we review what your simple minded friend tried to passed off to all of you who are equally simple minded about this subject...
Nothing you say will change the fact that a tilted flat plate is superior to a curved surface filled with lumps and bumps.
He has been trying to pass of the silly idea that on an aircraft that is actually flying, a tilted plate will remain tilted
WITH RESPECT TO ANGLE OF INCIDENCE.
This patently defy the laws of real physics.
News for all of the Chinese members here: Angle of incidence
IS NOT the same as direction of approach.
Angle of incidence is based upon the perspective of the target.
So if the plate rotate, the angle of incidence will change with respect to rotation...
The top illustration is if the plate does not rotate but the direction of approach changes. The lower illustration is if the plate rotate but the direction of approach remains the same. In both examples, angles of incidences are different with respect to the plate during its attitude changes (rotation).
What this mean is that as the aircraft 'spatially translate', fancy words for flying, even if the seeking radar is fixed like in a ground station, the aircraft will produce varying degrees of radar cross section (RCS) because a complex body will produce diverse surfaces to the seeking radar
AT THE SAME TIME. All of these many cross section values give us an average value that we produce for publication.
So what is the comparison between a plate and a diameter (sphere or cylinder) when facing a seeking radar?
Note paragraph 5 right from the beginning:
This means that the flat plate would produce a response some 12000 times greater than the sphere,...
Translation: A flat plate facing the radar is 12,000 times greater in reflection than the diameter (sphere or cylinder).
Translation: As the plate rotate, it will produce a predictable pulsating pattern of zero to a maximum whereas the diameter will produce a steady low level reflection (specular).
The creeping wave behavior will exist or not depending on the 10-lambda rule, but going into that rule will blow your mind. You guys are having difficulties with what I have been presenting all this time anyway.
So when it comes to the F-117...
Lockheed knew of this effect but because they did not have the computational power to predict/control curvatures, they have no choice but to use the angled faceting (plates) approach. As the -117 maneuvers inside the radar beam, its many angled facets produces varying cross sectional values but those values are too low inside the clutter rejection threshold for most radars. Hence, the -117 is 'stealthy'. That ought to show how good are Lockheed's engineers when they were in the age of slide rules.
But when comes sufficient computational power to predict/control curvatures, everyone, including China, moved away from the angled faceting method and into curvatures, and that is evident in China's products.
So for you ya-hoos to focus solely on the undersides means none of you have the necessary brains to comprehend complex relationships beyond the number 2.