stealth technology

1. The use of advanced design and specialized materials to make an aircraft difficult or even impossible to detect by radar.

The term is now used to refer more generally to something that remains hidden or unknown: “This is a stealth proposal: no one knows what it means.”

Stealth aircraft were used for the first time in the Persian Gulf War, where they were highly successful.

Example Sentences

Although the B-21’s flying-wing shape looks similar to that of the B-2, it has improved stealth technology and will be more supportable and maintainable than its predecessor, which has notoriously high maintenance costs.

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The Air Force is planning to build 100 of the warplanes, which have a flying wing shape much like their predecessor the B-2 Spirit but will incorporate advanced materials, propulsion and stealth technology to make them more survivable in a future conflict.

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It features stealth technology and is capable of conventional takeoffs as well as launching from modules such as shipping containers and semitrailer trucks.

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The B-2 Spirit is a heavy strategic bomber featuring stealth technology designed to help it penetrate a dense anti-aircraft network.

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Maybe so, but 32 years after the first stealth fighter saw action in the Gulf War, stealth technology is in its own race against technology.

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