BEIJING: A group of scientists from China have claimed to have developed stealth material that could make future fighter jets very difficult to detect by some of today’s most cutting-edge anti-stealth radar.
According to media reports, a team of researchers from China’s Huazhong University of Science and Technology claimed to have developed a new material they say can defeat microwave radar at ultrahigh frequencies, or UHF.
Such material is usually too thick to be applied to aircraft like fighter jets, but this new material is thin enough for military aircraft, ships, and other equipment, said Wenhua Xu, one of the team members.
With radar absorbent material not all of the signal bounces back to the receiver. A plane can look like a bird. “Our proposed absorber is almost ten times thinner than conventional ones,” he said in a statement.
