From:	Oyler Chris D <cdo6143@***.EDU>
Subject:	active stealth...
Date:	Fri, 1 Oct 1993 11:33:19 -0500

> Ok, correct me if am wrong.
> Broadcast the signal thing back won't to fool the radar per-say.
> It will fool the radar - into thinking your something bigger than you really
> are. Sure the craft might emit the signature of something else, but it is also
> still reflecting the old one.
>
> Daniel Waisley
>

You are wrong. :-) The way passive stealth tech. works is by absorbing any
incoming radar signals so that the Radar Site gets no reflection, hence you don't
exist to them. The downside of this is that the absorbing of reflections leaves
a "hole" on the radar screen that could conceivably be noticed. You see, radar
can pick up all sorts of ground clutter etc., that shows as garbage on the
screen, and having a blank space in that garbage can be as bad as having a big
radar signature.The Active stealth corrects that problem by not only absorbing
incoming radar, but by absorbing and then sending out it's own radar in a patternthat
fills in the gap on the radar set. Got it? Good. :)

-Twitch