Why not the four stripes below the rotating part?
Why not the four stripes below the rotating part?
If you look at the superstructure, you can see that it is tilted at an angle. It looks pretty far from the shape needed for excessive optical scattering, and the edges are sloped away gently enough to probably avoid edge scattering.It seems strange to me why they kept these right angles in the design instead of using the approach that the 054A has at this location. Right angles are generally a big no-no in stealth design since they are major radar reflectors, so whatever radar hits that location is going to get a big fat radar return for the price of on the house.