Have Glass: Making the F-16 less observable

  • F-16 Fighting Falcon
  • USAF
  • United States
  • Lockheed Martin
  • Have Glass
  • Multi-Role Fighter
  • Livery
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Stealth is widely hyped, but rarely well understood. Stealth, or low observability (LO), does not make an aircraft invisible to radar. However, if an aircraft’s radar cross section (RCS) can be reduced, it will appear ‘smaller’ on radar and may be detected later, at shorter range.

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Originally published in Combat Aircraft Journal

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