Countering Stealth Systems in Airborne Operations

This essay deals with objectives and various methods and techniques of operational concealment orstealth. Factors affecting detection of objects (airplanes, ships) including radar, heat and visual signatures are introduced and reviewed. Radar cross section reduction methods which are of main factors making an aircraft invisible or undetected to radar sensors including radar absorption material and shaping are also discussed. Ways of reducing heat signature are analyzed as well. In this essay efforts have been made to bring about and analyze solutions and ways of detecting stealth airplanes in a brief manner. Finally, it is concluded that if we could employ measures such as bistatic and multi-static radars with low frequency with multiple receivers, detecting the stealth airplane when deploying its weapons, sensing the airplane heat trail, using high resolution Doppler radars and detecting disturbances the aircraft creates in the magnetic field of the earth with magnetometers, stealth airplanes can be detected and be approximately pinpointed.