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China Claims a Major Stealth Breakthrough, but Is It True?
We find out.
Key point: China may have invented something, but that doesn’t make it a military and technological earthquake.
- David Axe
- The National Interest
Chinese scientists claim they have developed a new kind of material for making aircraft less detectable by radar.
But the development probably is not the breakthrough that some observers claim it is.
Prof. Luo Xiangang and colleagues at the Institute of Optics and Electronics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Chengdu, said they had created the first-ever mathematical model to precisely describe the behavior of electromagnetic waves when they “strike a…