BAE Systems test pilot Peter Wilson makes history as he conducts the
first ever shipborne rolling vertical landing (SRVL) on board HMS Queen
Elizabeth.
"Stealth" makes me wonder. Advocates say stealth jets are virtually invisible - they have the radar signature of a bird, not an airplane. Right. A bird flying at 700 MPH. Naw, that's not an American fighter - it's just a really fast … bird. Tweet-tweet! WHOOOOOSH goes the Russian S-400 AA missile, aimed right for that … really fast … bird. …………….BOOM!
Suposedly because the radar return is the size of a bird the computer software edits it out of the radar display. Of course I suppose it would be possible to tell the computer to flag any "birds" doing in excess of 200 knts.
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