I know they’re made to go off the radar but im still here wondering if they’re anywhere close to the Helicarriers in Avengers
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Radar is light, and it bounces like light does. Radar detection works by shining radar at the sky and waiting for it to bounce off stuff. If it bounces off and comes back to your detector you can detect the presence of *something* in a particular location, and you can be reasonably confident that something is something you should take a closer look at.
Light bounces in very predictable ways, which is how radar works. Most things will bounce the radar off in a predictable direction and can therefore be detected. Stealth planes are designed to reflect radar light at weird angles, so instead of going back to the detector, they fly off somewhere else. Since the plane is never getting detected, no one knows its there. [Here’s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5cR6EA2jGY) a mouldy video that contains practical demonstrations and more detail.
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