A Gothamist reader sent these in. I know the whole idea is that they’re invisible to radar, but they fly so slowly that they’re visible to the naked eye and vulnerable to the naked eye whose owner is also in possession of a cellphone.
Spy magazine did a brilliant article wherein they looked at other bomb delivery systems that could be had for the same money as one Stealth bomber; the most efficient was, if memory serves, 7,500 Cessna 172s. No airforce or artillery in the world could shoot down all 7,500 in time to prevent the bomb from dropping. And finally, a use for all those seized drug dealers’ planes.
raincoaster 
wow amazing stuff
but on second thoughts they looked photoshopped :) who knows ….. just a thought
No, if you go to Gothamist you’ll find that they’re real. They are supposed to do a flyby for some football game, I think it is.
The idea of stealth raincoaster is the medium-long range air to air missiles work by radar and so cannot lock on. A good manouverable stealth aircraft should also be able to ‘disappear’ to shorter range air to air missiles that work by heat seeking. ‘Stealth’ also means that the aircraft can fly at attack speed without leaving a vapour trail and with minimal heat signal.
My theory is that the early stealth planes like the ones you picture were largely experimental; getting the technology sorted ready for mass production, which is taking place at Lockheed Martin as we speak.
Because atom bombs are not ‘stealth’ (i.e they have a large radar presence) any decent airforce (i.e the USAF) might be able to locate which one of the 7,500 crappy planes had the bomb on board using their advanced radar technology.
Hey–didn’t Wonder Woman have an Invisible Jet? How much do you figure we could get that one for?
Better yet, announce the development of the new “Canawhoopass” invisible fighter–and show footage of a camera panning Saskatchewan from horizon to horizon.
Who’d dare to challenge our might then, eh? And hey–we’re still not telling anybody where we stashed all those Avro Arrows.
Yeah, Lockheed Martin would unleash a can of whatevertheyhaveleft on our asses. Actually, they’re plagued with mechanical failures over the past few years, to the point where a lot of people in the Pentagon want them out of the program; the politicians, of course, fight that because they rely on the contributions from the industry.
Atom bombs themselves have no particular radar presence; they’re just bombs. The radar shadow depends entirely on the transportation method up until it’s bombs-away time. So the Cessnas come out ahead, still. Besides, the 172 was a great little plane. You can barrel roll and do fancy stalls and shit; I’d like to see you try that with one of these fat wedgies.
Bombs are a huge lump of metal, of course they have a radar presence. and those ‘fat wedges’ have thrust vectoring these days, they can do fancy shit too.
Those huge lumps of metal are put INSIDE the planes, Steven, or didn’t you know that?