Re:Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon ...
by implements on Friday February 03, 2023 @12:12PM
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That’s a bit emphatic, surely?
If you can make a B2 bomber stealthy then perhaps you can do the same with a balloon - the bags are thin polythene [1] and I assume you could combine geometry and radar absorbing material to make a payload disappear.
If it were that obviously visible why wasn’t it intercepted when it crossed into America’s air defence identification zone?
[1] https://www.nasa.gov/scientific-balloons/types-of-balloons
Re:Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon ...
by Oxidation on Friday February 03, 2023 @06:09PM
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It's very clearly not stealthy, it's got solar panels hanging from it. I'm sure you could make a stealthy box, but this is not that.
Re:Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon ...
by MichaelZuo on Sunday February 05, 2023 @12:52PM
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If you don't know what your talking about it's usually more polite to admit it, instead of trying to double down.
There's simply no way one could ever be hidden from radar. So 'stealthy balloons' do not exist.