Boeing Phantom Ray

[Dr Mordrid]

Boeing plans to have Phantom Ray, a new unmanned platform based on the X-45C, in the air by December 2010. The project will be internally funded and build on the X-45 project, which completed 64 flights between 2002 and 2005.

The Phantom Ray will demonstrate surveillance and reconnaissance, electronic attack and hunter/killer capabilities. Autonomous aerial refueling, which was developed for the X-45C, will also be incorporated.

[Technoid]

looks like a B2 spirit spawned......

[Elie]

They should paint it sky blue! very hard to see let alone detect by radar.

[Dr Mordrid]

No need to 'paint' it blue, and besides there are other sky colors besides blue and shades of each. There are better ways

1) we do a lot of our raids at nightk which is why F-117 was black.

2) since the Boeing Bird of Prey, which is where it was beta'ed, there has existed a electroluminescent coating that could be changed electronically to match the planes surfaces to the background.

Something similar was tried during WW-II with "Yehudi lights" on a B-24 and later using a tech called "Compass Ghost" on an F4 during VietNam, but they've moved far beyond that now. During WW-II a Grumman Avenger equipped with Yehudi lights got within 3,000 yards of a Japanese ship before it was sighted, impressive for the day. Back then they put lights on the wing leading edges and along its sides, today it's the whole thing that gets a coating of EL materials.

Yehudi tech lost its attraction when radar became commonplace, but now with radar and thermal stealth it has had a resurgence.

Boeing Bird of Prey


Example: plane is at center. Left is EL off. Right is EL on.

[Elie]

Thanks Doc, exactly what I am talking about. The EL examples shows clearly what true stealth is all about, not hidden just from radar, but also visually as well.

Cheers!

[Dr Mordrid]

Wait until you see adaptive camouflage using cams on one side and display tech on the other. You could miss a tank at 50 meters on a sunny day. Predator style invisibility, and there are credible reports that the US and UK have been working on a Challenger II tank so equipped. Parallel project is working on radar stealth for land vehicles too. Now add what the US will be fielding in a few years: serial hybrid trucks and light armor. They will be able to approach under electric power - nearly silently.

[Elie]

Truly amazing tech there....Tech that should be also made for the masses I can imagine my next Halloween cosutme would be using predator style camouflage...

Knock knock...

door opens, engage camouflage.

Yell out ...Trick or treat!!!!!!!!!

Home owner scared half to death.... Hehe