FriedRiceNSpice
Captain
Possibly due to the high maintenance costs associated with RAM paint. Does anyone know if it is feasible to apply RAM paint on a pre existing aircraft that originally did not have RAM treatment?
J-10 Thread IV
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Possibly due to the high maintenance costs associated with RAM paint. Does anyone know if it is feasible to apply RAM paint on a pre existing aircraft that originally did not have RAM treatment?
RAM does not necessarily mean its paint. RAM is Radar Absorbent Material, so that's broadly speaking. It can also mean that parts of the aircraft may be substituted with metamaterials built with matrices underneath or in between sandwich that could be absorbing and cancelling out radio waves.
duncanidaho
Junior Member
Are you sure that it is a J-10C and not a J-10B?
Because the vertical stabilizer indicates it is a J-10B.
But the interessting part is the serial number on the refueling probe.
Is there any context between the serial number on the probe and on the aircraft?
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TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
Google “HAVE GLASS” it’s F16 of the USAF retrofit with some RAM coatings and a canopy with tin iridium oxide coating.
However that doesn’t make it a Stealth just as doing the same to J10C wouldn’t.
Exactly, my old man flew the Combat Talon I when he was assigned to MACVSOG, the MC-130E had 400 lbs of radar absorbing "paint", the Fulton recovery system, and a slew of highly classified electronics...
It did NOT make the C-130E a fifth gen fighter in terms of RCS, but it did make it much less likely to "paint" a huge target as it went about its very classified and clandestine business.
That black radar absorbing coating turned the beautiful C-130 into a frumpy looking lump, but it did the job...
By the way, the MC-130E made many trips into China, most at very low altitude, some at very high altitude, it had terrain following radar to allow those trips to be made in the dead, dark of night....
So yes, those coatings do indeed reduce RCS, how much depends on the aircraft they are being applied to...
it is feasible, but how effective it might be would be highly dependant on the aircraft you started with.
