How To Take Down an F-117

Re:How To Take Down an F-117 by runjake on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @09:11PM (#1936228)

You'd need an awful lot of "metal" to cover a moving "volume" of space for an aircraft doing 500-600 mph.

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Re:How To Take Down an F-117 by poi98u7y6tryuio on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @10:24PM (#1936371)

Actually you need less. If you have a piece of metal occupying the cross section area of an aircraft for a certain time interval - the faster the target the more chance it has of passing through the same space as the metal.

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Re:How To Take Down an F-117 by runjake on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @11:30AM (#1937756)

I'm not sure your math works out in the context of the velocities we're talking about. Unless you're talking about quantum stealth... oops, I've said too much! ;)

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