The question above, I always wondered how that tech actually works, in a layman words of course. How does the signal absorbing paint work?
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Imagine a guy with a tennis racket standing in front of a machine that shoots a bunch of tennis balls at him. In random places around him.
A regular player would hit the balls in a way that most would go back in the regular direction of the machine. From the regularity of the balls coming back, one could even calculate how tall the player is (more reach etc) if you expect that all players have s roughly equal skill. So a tall person with long arms might hit more balls back than a short person.
Now, imagine there is a tall person that does whatever he can to NOT shoot any ball back to the machine. For example by catching the balls or shooting them far away.
So even if he „messes up“ a ball and it goes back, the size calculator would calculate that there is something the size of a bird that was there by chance.
Same with radar.
Radar waves get sent out and hit an object. The waves get reflected and from the amount of what comes back, you can calculate the size of the object. The more comes back, the larger whatever you detected. That can range from a bird to… anything, really.
So with fancy engineering (materials and angles to name a few) you can absorb the waves or deflect them to anywhere but back to the radar station. So even if it gets messed up and an angle is bad, the radar station might just see something the size of a bird instead of the B2 bomber that’s inbound.
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