Eli5: What makes a stealth fighter harder to detect than a regular plane?

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Eli5: What makes a stealth fighter harder to detect than a regular plane?

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Stealth aircraft are covered in Radar Absorbent Materials (RAM) that absorbs most radar waves, and the shapes of the aircraft also help deflect radar waves away from the direction they came from, preventing the radar from seeing any waves bouncing back to it. The RAM does most of the work, but not all of it.