Radar Cross Section and Stealth Technology

Author: Ruan Yingzheng
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Publish Date: 2000-02-02
Features: This book systematically discusses the basic theory, analysis methods, reduction techniques, and measurement techniques of radar cross-section. The book is divided into seven chapters. Chapter 1 Introduction, introducing radar and countermeasures, the radar characteristics of targets, and radar stealth technology; Chapter 2 Radar Cross-Section Basics, introducing the concept of radar cross-section and the scattering characteristics of simple shapes, composite targets, and natural targets; Chapter 3 Radar Cross-Section Analysis Methods, including classical solutions, integral equation solutions, geometric optics and geometric diffraction theory, complex ray theory, physical optics and physical diffraction theory, and surface wave scattering; Chapter 4 introduces the radar cross-section analysis of concave structures represented by open cavities and corner reflectors; Chapter 5 analyzes the radar cross-section and scattering mechanisms of antennas, focusing on the radar cross-section of various reflector antennas and array antennas; Chapter 6 Radar Cross-Section Reduction Techniques, discussing the principles and methods of various stealth technologies, including shape stealth, radar-absorbent materials, frequency-selective surfaces, and antenna stealth techniques; Chapter 7 introduces the theory of radar cross-section measurement, outdoor and indoor measurement methods, and the processing of measurement data, etc...