How the usa got stealth tech from russia..

[thestringshredder]

 

[DeathInvader]

This section really needs a Stupid and Funny thread

 

[BeyondHeretic]

Of course the USA invents everything on its own , the own technology it imports are from israel

 

[anant_s]

Actually Lockheed Martin while designing F-117, The Skunkworks made use of a definitive text by Petr Ufimtsev Method of Edge Waves in the Physical Theory of Diffraction.

If you look at the shadow cast by an object, you will see, if you look closely enough, variations in brightness in the shadow. These variations of light and dark cannot be explained by assuming a straight line propagation of light rays. This phenomenon of "diffractio", or diffraction of light, as we now call it, was first mentioned by Francesco Grimaldi in the 17th century. (Here is a beautiful example of such a diffraction pattern.)

The basic equations that describe diffraction, while easy to write down, are notoriously difficult to solve exactly, and exact closed form solutions are rare. In the late 1950s, the Russian scientist Ufimtsev developed and expanded the earlier work of H.M. MacDonald (cf. Electric Waves and also here where MacDonald's Physical Optics was first introduced), and developed a powerful asymptotic method for solving high-frequency diffraction problems.

This new method was particularly suited to stealth design, since it enabled the far field diffraction pattern of radar waves from airplanes to be calculated. In particular, it was now possible to calculate what shapes would NOT reflect the radar waves back to their source, and hence would be undectable by radar.

Surprisingly, Ufimstev's work was all but ignored in the Soviet Union, but not so in the US. After the US Air Force had translated his work from the original Russian, it was read by Denys Overholser, a radar specialist who realized its practical implications...and in fact, in a matter of months after he had read the paper, he had translated it into a computer program, ready for stealth design at the fabled "Skunk Works" shop. Both the Lockheed F-117 Stealth Fighter and the Northrop B-2 Stealth Bomber were designed with the aid of Ufimtsev's approach.

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But the fact that the mathematics was available to Soviets also, US beat them owing to better Computing resources available.
However there is a Soviet connection to Stealth, how we percieve it now, is a different matter though.

 

[faithfulguy]

This guy came up with the concept, but USA didn't steal anything from Russia. Come on, Russia didn't see the value of research by its own researchers. America did.

 

[vostok]

When the U.S. realized that the F117 - no not stealth, some have thought that all the work of Ufimtsev - diversion of KGB.