Eli5: What makes a stealth fighter harder to detect than a regular plane?
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They’re shaped in a way (and made of certain materials) that help deflect radar beams. A normal plane will reflect back a radar signal and be a nice big obvious plane on the radar screen. A stealth place redirects and also absorbs some of the beam, so that only a small amount is returned. From what I remember stealth planes are either invisible or a lot of times looks like the size of a bird on a radar.
Combine that with modern radar/detection/camera systems of its own, so that it can stay way far away from its targets anyways…. I think that’s basically what makes them stealthy!
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