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Stealth could have a lot of meaning. But as long as the enemy cannot detect the airplane beyond visual range and direct its defence against it, the airplane is stealth. For example, because the Japanese didn't have radars in battle of Midway, Douglas SBD Dauntless serve as a role of a stealth plane vs the imperial carrier fleet. Conversely, if all the countries in the world can come up with a simple radar that can somehow sees F-22, F-22 is no long a "stealth" airplane.
I think what you mean is converted to be more "stealthy" than before. But this kind of effort is useless unless the "stealthy" conversion make the plane becomes "invisible" to enemy radar.
The planes still apear on radar, just that the signiture is so minor that , radar analyst might consider it a bird or other non aircraft flying object , but once its launches a weapons it gives off a pretty big signiture ... stealth is only maintained untill the surface , integrity holds, curve, and ability of surface to deflect light away from incoming direction.
The ability to cool down the out going airflow , is interesting engineering achivemet but if Americans can run the heat flows thru the vents , internally in craft , and make it cold enough whe it comes out to avoid heat seeking missiles I am sure other nations can research in that area.
In theroy , if your plane has a diamon shape (surface properties) light will get reflected and radars will be deflected. As long as the xrays do not bounce on surface and come back
I am sure of 10-20 Pakistani engieers worked with a small scale prototype , they can come up with a shape that can deflect , any light / xray from a prototype surface.
After that it will challenge for Aeronutical engineers to test the prototype in wind tunnels for flyability
Stealth is not new , US had it since what 70's ? so now its pretty old techology almost absolete , probbly the russians already have it figured out - they just don't like to boast about their achivements
JF17 , can it be converted ? Yes just modify the surface of plance and hide the cannopy 100% so pilot runs the plane with no visuals or just make it UAV JF17 stealth.
Hide the weapons inside the frame of body ...
Stealth is determined by how well you deflect rays of radar , not size you can have plane size of titanic , but as log as it reflect radar beams - it will have signiture of a small bird or kite or ballon
No plane is 100% invisible -
Success rate of F22 is high only becasue , it is going up against , crows and eagles in air, their is no airforce, when it will be up against Russian fighters , 5-6 Russian planes can easily out manuver the F22 into submission as soon as they establish visuals
The momet the F22 opens fire , the ground Missiles will lock in under 1-2 second and launch a missile on to the target.
The radar absorbant chemicals that get painted on the plane are well just to further reduce its signiture - which routinely get painted on planes I think I read every time that plane flies every small section of plane is inspected to see if any paint got scrapped or came off during flight...
The samples may have already been bought off by Russians and Chinese - there were few stealth planes that went down in europe ...
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