rcrmj
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Your the last person that should be talking about educating people on 'stealth'. The angled fuselage is nothing more than a design feature that gullible people like you interpret as being 'stealthy'. There are many things that increase an aircraft's RCS, one of the biggest is right angle surfaces, the ZW-10 is full of them; for example, the vertical stabilizer, pylons, the fin on the tale, the two large antennas on the tail, the exhaust manifold, the cowl (right below engine), the gun, and the flir/optics housing are all right angled surfaces. But there is also the landing gears and countless protrusions sticking out from the fuselage.
On a related matter when an aircraft like an F-22 or B-2 opens it's weapons bays it is seen on radar, these are fully optimized for low observability and there is no sacrifice, so tell me if an F-22 is seen on radar with an opened weapons bay how is this ZW-10 with all it's right angled surfaces and protrusions--landing gear and all 'stealthy'? And what about those saw tooth patterns that you can't seem to get enough of, according to you without them this helicopter can not at all be 'stealthy'.
heli designers and developers wont put up a shape just to trick 'gulible' people like you said, they dont hv time to fool anyone but to satisfy buyers, all the shapes and design of WZ-10 has its own purpose, be it areodynamics or reduce overall RCS` accroding to the 'stealth' benchmarks you put on really rule out T-50 (with all those right angled bits and bobs) to be a stealth plane which is well known fact, unless you are gullible to believe whatever came out those hyped russian magzines, trying to convinece no body but to fool indians to put more money into the project.