THre ain't no stealth in space

[AvatarIII]

well yeah, but something that absorbed all detectable radiation WOULD be ultra-black

[Xzyl]

That would require the capability to not only detect the engine exhaustm but to estimate the resulting speed and change of direction based on it fast enough. I suppose it's not impossible, but with present-day technology it's pretty tricky.

Tricky to do with today’s technology? We have been doing it for decades. It is the exact same principle of how early warning satellites work. They detect and track the heat of the exhaust of ballistic missiles from launch (until they are high enough for radar to take over).

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9001523/Midas
http://spaceflightnow.com/titan/b39/040210dsp.html
http://www.stratcom.mil/fact_sheets/fact_tbmw.html
http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=96

They succeed at doing this while fighting an atmosphere and background clutter. To give you an idea what you can do with today’s thermal tech when you are not fighting an atmosphere and background clutter look at the Spitzer Space Telescope. Back in May it mapped the surface temperature of HD 189733 B, a planet 63 light-years away from us.

I said the energy would be stored, not redirected outwards, and later used as a supplemental power source for powering combat systems.

The following thread explains the problems with that better than I can and has good links explaining why.

http://forum.spacebattles.com/showth...thermodynamics

Actually, it would. The missile still had to be given something to lock on to, and they weren't exactly shooting advanced LOAL stuff.

That point is that you do not need to see a target to hit it if it is going to move in a predictable manner at predictable times.

I didn't mean old-fashioned radio interference, but rather about cyberwarfare, something like the US-made "Suter" system used by the Israelis in the Syria raid (an airborne network attack system that "hacks" into the enemy communications network and basically takes over as a system administrator; it can then feed the system false data or even turn the sensors away from the real target).

Interesting, I will have to take a look into that. Thanks for the info.


Sine this thread is the same as one I have read on another so I am going to post a link to it as it not only covers all the points we have covers it goes more into depths as to the pros and cons of each point and counter point.

http://forum.spacebattles.com/showth...=stealth+space

This last link goes to a huge, 244 posts, thread and it gets pretty hard core on the math and physics.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...31f6b0b15b863/

[IcyNeko]

well yeah, but something that absorbed all detectable radiation WOULD be ultra-black

.... uh, no. There's no scientific basis that black absorbs all forms of radiation. Ass-u-mption.

[AvatarIII]

i'm not saying that black things absorb all radiation, just that if something did, it must absorb all light radiation, and therefore be black. silly boy. in this universe effect FOLLOWS cause!