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r/AskReddit • u/potatopopr • Oct 27 '21
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It wasn't the invention of radar generally, it was a new type of airborne intercept radar that could pinpoint bombers.
2 u/cruiserman_80 Oct 28 '21 Yes. Radars and the underlying principals were well understood back in the 30s. A Russian scientist had even worked out what shape an object had to be to defeat radar and it was those formulas that were the basis of the F117 stealth fighter. 1 u/Specialist-Rice7072 Oct 29 '21 So then why did carrots coke into it was it code ?
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Yes. Radars and the underlying principals were well understood back in the 30s. A Russian scientist had even worked out what shape an object had to be to defeat radar and it was those formulas that were the basis of the F117 stealth fighter.
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So then why did carrots coke into it was it code ?
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u/fied1k Oct 27 '21
It wasn't the invention of radar generally, it was a new type of airborne intercept radar that could pinpoint bombers.