22nd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Harrogate, UK, 28 August - 1st September, 2000
Paper ICAS 2000-7.5.3

THE INFLUENCE OF STEALTH TECHNOLOGY ON FLIGHT PERFORMANCE AND MANEUVERING CHARACTERISTICS OF FIGHTER AIRCRAFT

I. I. Ikryanov
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia

Keywords: low observable technology, flight-performance

Low Observable technology offers significant benefits for fighter aircraft in terms of aircraft survivability [1]. Different approaches to reduce aircraft radar crossection (RCS) are proposed and investigated [1], [2]. The requirement for aircraft to be stealthy in some case results in performance penalties to be paid [3]. Thus, at designing of an advanced fighter the search of tradeoff between low signature and high performance is possible. The article presents results of appreciation of “Stealth” technology influence on fighter aircraft flight-performance and maneuvering characteristics.

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