Stealth Tech: Nazis Vs. United States

By 오창헌(cacomfort).

B-2 bombers and F-117 fighters are the only aircrafts that was built with stealth technology prior to the year 2000. Now, F-22, Raptor, has joined the fleet, it entered into its military service in 2006. (F-35 expects to be entering the service soon.)

F-117, on the other hand, decommissioned from service due to lacking its leading-edge technology and costing too much on maintaining the fleet.

As far as stealth technology is concerned, there is no question about as to what country has been leading the technology and building it. It's the United States. But when its technology is talking about prior to 1970s, the demised Nazi's Germany was in the forefront. They had already had built stealth-tech applied aircrafts in the early 1940s. It's called Ho 229.

Amazingly, its design is strikingly similar to B-2 bombers. Thus so many thought B-2 was built based on the design of Ho 229, makes people to think that when Nazis surrendered in 1945, the US stole the design and built the B-2 bombers decades later.

This was not the case, although it was suspected that Nazis design might have affected US. Back in 1941, by Jack Northrop, the same shape of aircraft had already been built and test flying high on the desert of Mojave. The aircraft was called XB-35.

The test flying was taking place at a air base was called Muroc Air Force Base, now known as Edward Air Force Base.

In 1946, an advanced version of the same aircraft was rolled out with much more powerful jet engines. It was called YB-49. The aircraft, however, was ordered to destroy due to unable to maintain its controllability—stalling.

Then 30 more years later, it came back to life. The US government needed an airplane to penetrate the Soviet airspace, without being detected by enemy radars.

In order to evade the radar detection, the conventional shape of aircraft was useless. The only way to evade radar detection was to use once discarded YB-49 shape. Hence, Northrop bought it out back and applied with state-of-the-art radar-signature absorbing paint.

As for controlling the aircraft with stability, 130 computers used to help control the aircraft and prevent the airplane stalling, of which a technology called as "fly-by-wire."

Now, this video shows how the stealth aircraft was developed.

Written by cacomfort.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Stealth Tech
• B-2
• Ho 229
• Holten Brothers

[nfinnnn]

lol, the title should be: Stealth Tech: Nazis vs. Nazis. Americans just stole the nazi technology

[purelego]

wow Nazi plane look like B2 bomber.

[WGutjens]

@purelego Copy paste :D Something the USA is blaming China for. Since china is copying everything from the USA right now XD yet the USA did the same themselves lol. Hypocrits much XD

Amazing what the Nazi's had tho..... decades ahead of the rest of the world.... what would've been if these things went into mass production?

[Zementide]

@USAmilitarypower Agree... the Nazi-Tech is hyped in the internet like hell... it's annoying.

Sincerely... a German.

[HybodusStudios]

German win!! USA lose (0_0)

[puistis]

It is prowen that germans wing really was stealth plane.

Who ever doubts it, i ask you one question.

Do you doubt the company that has perfected the US stealth technology ? German wing was tested by them and it is what they say. It was stealth jet.

Pretty amazing actually. Not only fastest but allso a stealth fighter. In WWII.

[VaCetnik47]

In former Yugoslavia F117 and B2 was shot down. F117 was crush in Serbia, and B2 in Albania. World don't know but we do.

[USAmilitarypower]

@supersticky87 usa had the nuke and the first stealth wing only rockets came from germany

[USAmilitarypower]

USA HAD THE FIRST FLYING WING

[USAmilitarypower]

@purelego no usa had the first flying wing

[USAmilitarypower]

@nfinnnn usa had the first flying wing and the nuke

[supersticky87]

Germans may have made Americans perfected it!!!