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That is questionable at best.But PAKFA will have better maneuverability & indeed better avionic and situation awareness compare to Raptor.
There are a lot of speculations about 'plasma stealth'. Most of them nonsensical and practically defy the laws of physics. The most popular one is that the aircraft would be enveloped in a cloud/shield of plasma. Kinda funny on how this could be maintained in flight.Well I read somewhere that PAKFA will use plasma stealth, is ti true & can anyone exlain.
The most technically plausible explanation is that of the plasma antenna...
Plasma antenna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An array of conformal plasma antenna throughout the aircraft's outer surface would absorb any impinging radar signals of any freq, amplitude, and pulse characteristics -- COMPLETELY. The aircraft does not have to be covered in antennas. They just need to be formed and arrayed at strategic locations on the body and with no less precision than 'stealth' body shaping itself. If one antenna received a portion of the impinging radar signal at any spot, two or more plasma antennas in the local area will be needed to receive the rest of the beam and whatever leftover will be too weak to be of any value to the seeking radar. That is the design of 'plasma stealth'.A plasma antenna is a type of radio antenna currently in development in which plasma is used instead of the metal elements of a traditional antenna. A plasma antenna can be used for both transmission and reception. Although plasma antennas have only become practical in recent years, the idea is not new; a patent for an antenna using the concept was granted to J Hettinger in 1919.
Keep in mind that if this kind of information is publicly available, what do you think we are working on?
Yes...
http://www.acc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123041725
So according to personal testimonies, even within visual range, the Raptor can still present an extremely difficult radar lock target."The thing denies your ability to put a weapons system on it, even when I can see it through the canopy," said RAAF Squadron Leader Stephen Chappell, F-15 exchange pilot in the 65th AS. "It's the most frustrated I've ever been."
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