A Raving Lunatic wrote this. It would be polite to call it "fiction". It would more accurate to call it deranged fantasy of an oxygen starved mind.
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Want to know some fascinating facts about Canadian Military Secrets? Things you never knew, but thought you did? That, for one thing Canada had military secrets and yes, they actually originated in Canada. And we are not talking about the fact that the prime minister has a girlfriend who works in a Brasserie in Chaudiere, or that he calls his dog F***stick, we are talking about actual military equipment designed right here in Canada. We know you are shocked, not merely surprised, so here goes. Of course you are aware of the Canadarm satellite shover and plucker, and the Alouette/Telestar Weather and communications satellites, but you are probably less aware that Alex Treu or True, a genuine Canuckistanian, actually invented satellite surveillance technology that was state of the art. He was later denied security clearance for freelancing this technology to the Red Chinese, in order to get Rice Krispies on the table. Naughty, naughty Alex. You are also probably aware of Gerald Bull, a U of T physics guy who invented a long range gun that could launch satellites and sold that project called HARP to the US army. He also ran out of dough to develop weaponry from a not too generous Federal government, so he took it to South Africa, and then to Iraq. The idea was to launch surveillance, navigation satellites for the Iraq army, but his career was cut short by Israeli intelligence. (An Oxymoron, no doubt).
Stealth Bomber
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There are stranger things that have emanated from bad old Canader. One fascinating rumour we heard was that the Stealth Bomber, that old reliable radar evading aircraft, designated the F-117, was actually designed in Northern Ontario at a Norad Air Defense Command headquarters, or nearby. A super secret think tank, called Project Alpha, later penetrated by a KGB mole working for a disaffected ethnic terrorist group, had worked out plans for a Snell's law reflecting/absorbing flying wing platform and they were passed on to K. Johnson who was vacationing fishing there. He carried the plans back to Boeing in 1963 and work was begun on the penetrator bomber that later overflew Hungary 450 times. The design incorporated several concepts of reduced cross section. It was made from flat facets like a diamond, rather than rounded sections that reflected from at least one angle from anywhere. The coating was successive differently spaced layers of magnetite crystals suspended in resorscinal resin glue about 3/4 of an inch thick. This screen absorbed the radar waves effectively. It also presented a weight problem for the aircraft.
The perfectly rigid, flat bottom bounced whatever wave was left away from the sending station. In order to enhance the effect of random reflection, a flight computer introduced an unpredictable varying motion to the planes attitude, that jiggled any return wave so locks were hard to obtain. Sections of joins and edges that would have large cross sections were hatched to allow the edge to shorten to a radar wave. Engines were put above the plane and bypass air cooled to lessen infrared detection from below. Inlets were screened with baffles whose reflection path weakened and trapped any return wave hyperbolically. Tail sections were doubled and angled as were front sections in fixed patterns to lessen the chance of ground stations finding a direct reflection path from the craft.
The craft, because of weight, inlet disturbance and desire to avoid other forms of detection was made subsonic.
Some design features were incorporated into the SR71 which was starting to fly around that time. The SR71 had some stealth coating, but its wing edges were turned up to avoid being seen from ground stations, and they were made very sharp. Despite this, the SR71 was not very stealthy. It evaded missiles by having a flight computer do stochastics on its evasion patterns, when missiles were fired at it. At some point the climbing missile was too close, too fast, to bend its flight path sufficiently to follow the diving aircraft. G-forces were just too great for the high flying missile's speed, when manoeuvering closed to the short strokes. An 8 G turn for the aircraft was equal to a 45 G turn for the missile. The old U2 was very unmanoeuverable at its near stall speeds at high altitudes, and was a sitting duck. The SR71 could "deke".
The Navy had a special mission design that cloned small aircraft in the vicinity of the radar station and sent out a barrage of active, confusing signals. Later, more sophisticated radar was able to distinguish the false offspring and the "confusion craft" was scrapped.
Technically this F-117 idea broke several treaties related to aggressive weapons, and tended to create an imbalance between the Soviets and the States. In order to offset the effect of the pentrator bomber, a deal was cut to augment the strength of Warsaw pact ground forces. A great deal of stand off co-operation was required to get the Soviets to trust this arrangement. Neither side could use the other's advantages or it would cause a conflict to arise. So the Soviets agreed not to pursue Stealth Technology, and the US agreed not to use special armour tanks. The Soviet tanks were given active radar operated armour that could resist standard Shaped HEAT charges by aiming themselves at the incoming charge and just in time, hitting it before it could get too close to the tank. This armour was applied sparingly by the Soviets, as they did not want an invincible tank. What if one got stolen? The active armour, introduced around 1968, was very effective and made the Warsaw tanks a formidable threat to ground forces. This spurred the development of anti-tank ground attack airforces and the Wild-Weasel and Cobra Attack Helicopters were put on the drawing board. Where did this active armour come from? The same think tank in Canada, project Alpha..
Next.. IBM rips off project Alpha...
Gromyko stirs up ethnic terrorists to trash project Alpha, as they smell a rat in the detente arrangment.. The US is way ahead in the missile race.. |
