From: "Venik" <venik@snip.not>
Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
Subject: Russian Plasma Stealth?
Organization: FASTNET(tm) PA/NJ/DE Internet


An interesting article appeared recently in Russian press. It's an interview
with the head of Keldysh Research Center (Russian Acad. of Sciences), Acad.
A. Korteyev.

Dr. Korteyev says that his research center created a portable (100 kg)
device that can generate a cloud of plasma around a moving aircraft,
reducing its radar signature by as much as 100 times. He also says that such
a device was actually built and tested on a real aircraft and is
production-ready.

Here is a link to a translation of this article:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~kapl0040/infos/rusLO_ENG.html

I am curious if anyone can explain how this device may possibly work - not
only how a cloud of plasma may be created around an aircraft in flight, but
also how is it supposed to affect a radar signal. This topic is hotly
debated on rec.aviation.military but people over there got stuck on the very
definition of plasma :-)

Thanks,
Venik