Eli5- WW84: Wouldn’t radar still be able to detect an invisible jet

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Spoiler for WW84! In the movie, WW turns a jet invisible which causes the radar to lose its signal. I’m no scientist, but I would think radar would still pick up an invisible aircraft. Since the aircraft is only invisible to the naked eye, radar would still bounce off the aircraft revealing its position. I’m perfectly fine accepting the explanation that this was done just for a good scene. I just want to make sure I’m not an idiot.

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Radar works by bouncing electromagnetic radiation off of solid objects and recording the resulting signals. If Wonder Woman can render a material transparent to visible light, that is to say electromagnetic radiation in the range of 400 to 700 nm, there’s no reason in pricinciple why she shouldn’t be able to allow radar signals of a different wavelength to pass through it as well.

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