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originally posted by: BASSPLYR
In regards to mhd on submarines. I was lead to understand that the ohio class subs did experiment with mhd. They Had a sleeve over the propulsor that had a the mhd in it. It worked and was relatively quiet but it could only get up to 5 knotts. So it was intended to be used once at the assigned or chosen stations location to creep abput silently. But when actually underway they just used the screw or possibly on some a jacuzzi type propulsor. The inside of the sleeve had a envelop filled with ferrous material. eM rings would pulse in sequence contracting the ferrous material or gel creating wave like ripples on the inside of the sleeve squirting water out the back. Much like how the esophagus pushes water and food down your throat.
As for the b2. Im into exotic propulsion but its more likely the charhed leading edge and flame jet generator rig was to create a tunable dielectric field. Not to be used for electrogravetics. The field cpyld be tunable to match impedance with large wavelength radar frequencies coming back in vogue by some adversaries to detect stealth aircraft.
Which are mostly designed to cpunter small wavelength radar frequencies which are more prevelant and modern.
Metamaterial skins and shaping usually counter that but not the large wavelengths.
Also since you can mitigate things like radar. People build optical tracking missiles to shoot down stealth. A tunable dielectric field can possibly alter the refraction index of the b2 effectuvely casting its light elsewhere away from the craft like a mirage. The missile will be tracking the b2 but just not where the plane actually is and hits the mirage instead.
Then again some say and believe that the vacuum of space is not a vacuum but a dielectric too. Those same folks also believe that once tuned properly the dielectric can match impedance with the vacuum and eliminate inertial mass. They propose that gravity is a second order manifestation that arises from inertial mass which arises essentially as a type of drag created bu the dispartity of the mass travelling through the vacuums dielectric.
To Arbitrageur Strings are real ! so are 11 Dimensions ... Again i Reference CERN, Brooksville LI, and a lot of smarter younger people then myself, at several Institutions around the world working on these things, etc.
To Arbitrageur I feel IMHO, Bob Lazar did NOT Confabulate things he could not have known, With the accuracy and detail he espoused. Please just leave him alone he paid for his ill-advised actions. You did not meet the man.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: playswithmachines
There are many long wavelength radars in use today, and more being developed.
There are no more F-117s to detect, but you, and everyone else, assume that stealth is the same as it was when the F-117 first flew. It's developed a lot since then.
A longer wave radar will still see an intermittent return from a stealth aircraft, not not well enough to do more than give a general area to find it in. The shorter wavelengths are used to target aircraft. You need a shorter wavelength to guide a missile top a target. That means that for a long time stealth was optimized against X Band radar. Now it is still optimized against X Band, but works against other bands, including VHF/UHF radars.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Hermit777
That doesn't mean it has anything to do with the element 115 Lazar claimed. Of course there was going to be a 115, since the Table is in numeric order.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: playswithmachines
No. Long wavelength radar goes through the early paint and skin like it isn't there, and sees the internal structure, which is how it sees stealth aircraft. The radar absorbant paint and skin works against X Band and similar wavelength radars.