Does
the b-2 have a "cloak" that helps its passive stealth qualities? It supposedly uses electromagnetic wave around
the plane, sounds like plasma stealth principle minus the heat and easy visibility. Apparantely the B-2 cannot use its sensors
at all while its on, so it is only used in a combat setting.
Magnetoaerodynamics includes some groundbreaking computational
and experimental work with plasmas. The nature of the work ranges from today's practical applications to physics research
and tool development that will be used tomorrow. Magnetoaerodynamics(Magnetic control of gas flow and combustion). Any questions or comments about magnetoaerodynamics or this website Email Me,
let's talk about it....
Many aviation enthusiasts have heard about the so-called "plasma
stealth": using ionized gas to reduce the radar cross section of an aircraft. Some consider this to be science fiction - a
Romulan cloaking shield. However, sarcastic remarks aside, "plasma stealth" is quite real. At least in theory. Interactions
between EM radiation and ionized gas have been extensively studied for a variety of purposes ranging from radio communications
to astrophysics. Plasma stealth technology.
An artist's concept of a space probe inside a magnetic
bubble (or "plasma sail"). Charged particles in the solar wind hit the bubble, apply pressure, and propel the spacecraft. space probe inside a magnetic bubble or plasma
sail.
In one experiment, at Mach 1.4, the shock wave COMPLETELY
DISAPPEARED FROM VIEW (emphasis added by me)".
So there you have it, complete disappearance of a shock in a supersonic
flow!
Quite interesting!
However, before you all go out and go crazy, these AIAA papers weren't classified,
or even held as proprietary by Northrop. Which indicates to me that research is as far as it went, at the time.
Also
from the halls of the WIERD (but very interesting). There is another field, called Magnetoaerodynamics, that was oriented
around the same application. supersonic
flow and magnetoaerodynamics.
magnetoaerodynamics [PLASMA PHYSICS] Study of the properties
and characteristics of, and the forces exerted by, highly ionized air and other gases; applied principally to study of reentering
ballistic missiles and spacecraft. - McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.
Studies done several years
ago at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory showed that trips to the stars in reasonable times are feasible with the knowledge we
have today using staged fission or fusion propulsion systems both of which are under development. A tremendously large body
of data connected with magnetoaerodynamics even suggests we might be able to build something very much like the reported UFO's
-- and also solve many of the problems of high speed flight and produce the electromagnetic effects so frequently associated
with UFO sightings. "It's impossible" is said instead of "We don't know how." BY STANTON T. FRIEDMAN, NUCLEAR PHYSICIST
