Stealth Technology

ABSTRACT

Stealth refers to the act of trying to hide or evade detection. Stealthtechnology
is ever increasingly becoming a paramount tool in battle especially “high
technology wars” if one may occur in the future where invincibility means
invincibility. Able to strike with impunity, stealth aircraft,missiles and warships
are virtually invisible to most types of military sensors. The experience gained at
the warfront emphasizes the need to incorporate stealth features at the design stage
itself. According to conventional military wisdom, surprise is the best form of
attack. With evermore
sophisticated methods of detection, however, catching the
enemy unawares has becoming increasingly difficult. Thus paving way to the
development of increasingly sophisticated technologies that help in evading the
enemy's ever vigilant “eyes”.
Stealth Technology essentially deals with designs and materials
engineered for the military purpose of avoiding detection by radar or any other
electronic system. Stealth, or antidetection,
technology is applied to vehicles (e.g.,
tanks), missiles, ships, and aircraft with the goal of making the object more
difficult to detect at closer and closer ranges thus providing an element of surprise
in the attacks. Attacking with surprise gives the attacker more time to perform its
mission and exit before the defending force can counterattack.
For example,If a
surfacetoair
missilea
type of antiaircraft
battery defending a target observes a
bomb falling and surmises that there must be a stealth aircraft in the vicinity it is
still unable to respond if it cannot get a lock on the aircraft in order to feed
guidance.
As stated earlier stealth technology can be looked upon as a perfect
blend between the engineering skills of "designing" and "technology". And for
attaining stealth various dectection techniques have to be surpassed.