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   djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 12:28:48 JST djsumdog

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   The F-117A was a fully working stealth craft. That's why all the sides were flat. The software written in the 80s could only handle predicting radar deflection for flat surfaces. That limitation had been overcome with the B-2 design by the 90s. Does it actually work? Who knows, but none of them were ever shot at (officially).
   
   The SR-71 had zero stealth capabilities, it could just literally fly faster than any missile while also not killing the pilots. It was shot at a lot, but the pilots just pushed the throttle and outran everything.
   
   No one "figured out" stealth as far as what's publicly known. The U2 got shot down because it was designed to go stupid high but not fast, which was overcome by the soviets.
   
   With the tariff disaster, it's clear Trump is either doing what's he's told in order to intentionally destroy a massive chunk of American mid-sized business by all the groups that want to benefit, or he's really just fucking retarded. Either way, supports are all still "trust the plan" as we're about to see the end of affordable PC hardware and car parts in six months, that will likely last a year or more.
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     of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 12:28:50 JST of nothing
     Trump:
     >Sometimes, you know, stealth, they do stealth.
     >I'm not a huge believer in stealth because stealth is basically a lot of it's the design and the shape.
     >So you're going to design an ugly plane for stealth reasons, and then six months later they're going to figure it out and then you're stuck with a plane.
     This got quoted without his two references to "they're going to figure it out". Yes, it's funnier to say that Trump has TERRIBLE TASTE and thinks that our VERY COOLEST LOOKING PLANES are UGLY
     but the more important thing that he's saying is that stealth doesn't work and that as a feature it's pointless. That's kind of a surprising thing for a US President to say.
     Because if stealth doesn't work then the planes are, besides being really cool-looking, also just worse at their intended roles.