At 06:05 PM 7/23/2001 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: >On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Steve Schear wrote: > > > >It's the one they use primarily. > > > > Only because the rocket exterior has not been "stealthed" via high > > reflectivity and faceting. > >Maybe. But even mirrors can be burned through by a laser. And then we've >got weight issues that this would entail. It's not like they've got a lot >of overhead for the job. I suspect that faceting wouldn't be any more >effective than a smoothly round body form, it could have aerodynamic >effects as well (ie sharp corners at the facet edges - and yes they could >be rounded - now you're moving back toward a round rocket planform). Ahhh but faceted exterior would deny the adversary less a visual or radar cross section to acquire and track (yeah I know about the tail plume). steve
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