German inventor found magic hat

[Skybird]

By the description, this is the perfect radar-absorbing paint, "relevant for all militarily relevant frequencies".


http://www.spiegel.de/international/...551152,00.html

When a house, a ship or a car that would usually light up on a radar screen is coated with AR 1, it disappears almost completely into the darkness. Essen hasn't been able to figure out why this happens. It might be because the paint is a type of Jaumann absorber, which reflects incoming radar waves in such a way that they cancel each other out. Or it could have something to do with microscopically minute magnetic particles that absorb the radiation's energy.

For your own army having it, this is great news. If it is the opposite army having it, you think of it as a nightmare (just imagine how many weapon systems and missiles are Radar-dependant). just that the germans themselves were late to realise the potential, while China and Iraq and others tried to come to deals with the inventor since many years, is so typical for Germany's bureaucratic, narrow-minded perception. It was a German institute developing the mp3-standard as well - and assessing it as useless and non-profitable, making it availabvle to the international audience FOR FREE. Now look what useless non-profitable sh!t has become of it. Germany can be so ignorrant at times. Now think of this paint AR-1 being sold to the Chinese. Or Iran.

What is mnore expensive? Building a B2 from scratch - or painting a B52 with this paint?

[Jimbuna]

The British Government have been using it for years.....to paint a better employment picture.