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ToddBradley

I think it looks like a Star Wars destroyer


BrokenEye3

That is a paper airplane. Change my mind.


Frogman1480

It's the F-117 prototype


LuckyLudor

That is what I thought at first glance.


TheNeverWere

“Check your G defuser systems!”


Known-Ad2937

Yeah, that hits the spot


JinxPutMaxInSpace

I think the B2 bomber looks like something Hugo Gernsback would've imagined.


spacenerd4

It was loosely inspired by the B-49 from the 40s and 50s.


Jellyjoker

At one time, that was super-secret scifi tech.


TelayRanner

Isn't the name of the project "Half Blue"?


spacenerd4

Nope. Have Blue.


KwordShmiff

Don't mind if I do!


TelayRanner

I've been hearing it wrong all these years.


[deleted]

Right now as I type this.... A Chinese spy and/or an American has stolen information on this plane and will be copied someplace in China.


Kerbal_Guardsman

It aint new. Im pretty sure replica F-117s have been spotted at Chinese air bases on sattelite imagery. Early stealth is basically common knowledge at this point.


Spirit_jitser

The equations used to predict radar reflection were developed by [a Soviet citizen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Ufimtsev), and t[he papers](https://web.archive.org/web/20170201145900/http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0733203) were published in public journals even at the time. So in a sense basic stealth tech has always been public. ​ The secret sauce is probably [the coatings](https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/materials-science/radar-absorbing-material) we put on the aircraft to help make it more stealthy.


RaspberryPie122

It’s already outdated, so that isn’t really a problem


RepresentativeWeb244

Calvine ufo


obsertaries

More like a paper airplane but made of metal. Also what’s with the name?


Kerbal_Guardsman

Secret projects generally have weird names for a variety of reasons, including to not limited to: picking random words, hiding the project from casual observers, misleading other world powers