Talk:Plasma stealth

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http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/plasma/

That's nice. And who are you, and why should we be interested in that? Dan100 16:05, Jan 26, 2005 (UTC)

He just posted that here because I originally listed the article as a copyvio before he confirmed that he had written it himself. silsor 18:28, Jan 26, 2005 (UTC)

It seems like the "glow discharge" section is largely a discussion of electrohydrodynamic thrust, and is not relevant to this article, except perhaps in passing, in the introduction, as another application of plasma technology to aircraft. Maybe someone can start a new page, or merge it into another existing article? --Dashpool 20:29, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm always reading this page before but where is that article wich pertains a Su 27 using a plasma stealth generator, why was it removed?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.14.194.33 (talk) 03:31, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

B-2 Bomber == Am I the only one who sees a link between this article and the B-2 bomber? Janes Defense weekly revealed a long time ago that the leading and trailing edges of the aircraft are charged to a high electrical potential difference. This is highly likely to be the combined system of electrostatic propulsion and "plasma stealth". Anyone else have any input? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leeveraction (talk • contribs) 23:35, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

• Sources please. Not just random speculation. Rmhermen (talk) 00:22, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

I've seen this before, just need to locate the reference in Janes. Makes a lot of sense and it is NOT "anti grav" propulsion. Leeveraction (talk) 17:53, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

The high voltage applied between the leading edge and trailing edge of the flying wing may be part of the system to add electrical charges to the surface airflow layers, which forms a weak plasma layer, help reduce turbulence and may assist the "Smoothing" of the surface morphology, just as a pilot cockpit glass coated with conducting transparent metal thin film "cloak" the inside of the cockpit and reduce strong reflections from that area. But the real "Plasma Stealth" of B-2 seems to be the dielectric barrier discharge devices installed before the engine intake and after the engine exhaust. If you ever come across a photo of a B-2 bomber during in-air refueling, you can see strong plasma generated in these dielectric barrier discharge areas. The turbine blade has been one of the major sources of strong radar reflections in an airplane (the other is the slotted antenna of Doppler airborne radar). Some fighter design like F-22 uses curved intake duct coated with radar absorption material to reduce reflection from engine blades, but in the case of B-2, such design is not suitable because there is not enough length in its flying wing design, therefore the "Plasma Stealth" design may have been applied. By putting the Plasma Stealth on top of the flying wing, the glow generated by the plasma is invisible to ground observers or FLIR on other fighters, but it is visible to DSP satellites, which US currently dominates, so the glow does not matter. The Plasma Stealth on Su-27 or later models seems to apply a different plasma generating principle. If you have chance to see the picture of a late Su series fighters, in front of the engine intake on the side of the fuselage, there is a small "window" of different material. This window could be a microwave window, just as the microwave window in your microwave oven. A strong magnetron placed inside the window could generate plasma in front of the engine, and this plasma will flow into the engine, which will reduce the reflections from the engine blade, and may also help combustion because plasma is a high temperature substance.

Can we trim this down?

Unless there's some objection, I'll just trim out all the uncited sections. That should get it down to a paragraph. Hcobb (talk) 01:14, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

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== This, is complete nonsense.