Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen
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The Flanker airframe is not particularly stealthy. However, adjustments to the engine inlets and canopy, and the use of radar-absorbent material, supposedly halve the Su-35’s radar cross-section; one article claims it may be down to between one and three meters. This could reduce the range it can be detected and targeted, but the Su-35 is still not a “stealth fighter.”
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/t...stealth-fighter-the-plane-the-air-force-25565
Though not a stealth fighter, its fuselage has been shaped and coated with radar-absorbing material which would be supplemented by the plane's electronic warfare radar jammers.
https://www.upi.com/MiG-pushing-for-exports-of-the-MiG-35-fighter/9661498153646/
Anyway, the first application of radiation absorbing material was USSR's Soyuz manned spacecraft which applies RAM in solar panels to absorb radiation from Sun to make electricity.