On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 00:00:35 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:

In article ,
Alan Minyard wrote:

The "YF-22" has not been canceled, it is in
production, the German "stealth" project was a complete failure, the
RAM on the Nazi's U-Boats was completely in-effective.

Note that the German WWII sub coatings *did* work a bit. At least,
until they were exposed to sea water, which deposited a lot of
microscopic material on them which screwed up their stealth properties.
They also didn't "stick" very well.

Well, that sort of supports "completely in-effective" doesn't it :-)


They also had some stealth coatings for airframes. Which had the
unfortunate tendency to peel off in flight...

Al Minyard