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Right...So here is where the speculation that the J-20's canards WILL be made out of some super exotic materials that will absorb 100% of impacting signals to render them effectively invisible to radar comes into play. What you asked is nothing more than a rehash of previous Chinese declarations from speculations and baseless speculations at that.Since you don't know the materials composition and minute differences regarding size and shape of various structures on the J-20, how can you tell whether the reflected waves are in phase or out of phase with regard to the canards and main wings/fuselage?
Here is where you are wrong...
On a complex body with many individual structures in many complex arrays, the phase of any reflected wave can be compared against the original wave and against nearby structures. Do you understand?...reflected waves are in phase or out of phase with regard to the canards and main wings/fuselage?
You continues to be wrong. This is what is called a 'false dichotomy' or false choices. It is not either 'constructive' or 'destructive'.If the J-20's canards in relation to the fuselage and wings are insufficient in creating destructive interference, how can constructive interference happen either?
Constructive and destructive interference are two sides of the same coin.
If one can happen, so can the other under slightly different conditions.
On a finite body with many complex structures, not every structures will return to the seeking radar at the same time.
If an impacting pulse can have a leading edge and a trailing edge...
...The reflected pulse will also have the same characteristic: a leading edge and a trailing edge.
Anyway...The structure that is closest to the seeking radar will have its reflected signals arrive before the structure that is further.
On a finite body with many complex structures with diverse radar views, especially if the body is under constant motion, there can be constructive interference in one instance, destructive the next, and neither on the next. This is why the RCS value is an average and NEVER fixed. The more the diversity of radar views, the greater the accuracy of that average.
I am not the one making declarations here. You guys are the ones saying the J-20's canards are 'irrelevant', so tell us how can you make them just from eyeballing Internet pictures? All I have been saying so far is that based upon known methodologies, the ones that China is just learning how to use, ALL structures are suspect until dismissed by credible measurement data, of which we most likely will never know.How in the world are you able to know that both reflected signals are in phase with each other by eyeballing some J-20 pictures on the internet?
Now please explain how you're able to determine whether radar waves are in phase or out of phase by eyeballing J-20 pictures online.
These are the rules of RCS control:
- Quantity of radiators.
- Modes of radiation.
- Array of radiators.
Everything else, including absorbers, falls under those rules. The reduction of all three items is the goal and unless the fighter is a perfect sphere, each item will be compromised in some ways. Any radar engineer, including civilian ones, can vouch for those rules. I have yet to see any of you guys, here or over your other playgrounds, provide the lay readers the foundational principles like these. The J-20's canards are not excluded from these rules, except in Chinese minds.
This is your typical deception. You make BASELESS declarations and demand everyone accepts them. When challenged to support your arguments, you divert by demanding others support theirs.