Tutorial: Fundamentals of Stealth Counter Stealth Technology
Presented by:
David Lynch, Jr.
Consultant, USA
Course Description:
This short course provides an unclassified technology update on both active and passive state-of-the-art stealth techniques. Topics discussed are the concepts of Low Observables (LO) and Counter Low Observables (CLO) which include the overall design goals for Stealth performance in a vehicle to achieve balance in the acoustic, visible, infrared (IR), ultraviolet (UV), radar, communications, passive and emissions signatures. The simplest form of stealth is to exploit the environment, i.e. the use of nighttime, weather, screening jamming and the electronic order of battle. Some assessment of recent surface ship stealth will be presented.
Examples are provided throughout the very short course to illustrate how modern technology can provide effective passive and active observables reduction. Passive radar/ladar cross section, materials & shaping, dihedrals, edge treatment, radiation absorbing materials (RAM) and circuit analogs (CA) to bulk materials are presented. Current counters to these measures are discussed. Features that reduce active observables such as low sidelobe antennas, low intercept probability waveforms, signal compression, pulse compression, unintentional emissions and LPI enhanced signal processors are discussed. Common counters to these reductions are presented.
Instructor Biography:
David Lynch has produced and directed many movies and TV shows; most notable are Blue Velvet, Elephant Man and Twin Peaks. He is an entertainment cult figure in many parts of the world. Unfortunately, that is not me! This David Lynch is a Life Fellow IEEE, Hyland Fellow, Life Member Sigma Xi, an elected Stealth Pioneer, and an AIAA Senior Member. He has many US and foreign patents in the fields of electric machinery, radar, stealth and signal processing. If you have ever used a manned spacecraft, telephone modem, high speed internet, a second to fourth generation cellphone, a DVD/CD player, a SAR map, a fighting aircraft or a smart weapon; you have used a product he pioneered. He also led electric automobile, heart pacemaker, oilwell control and general aviation instrument businesses. He pioneered programs on F-14, Mercury, Gemini, Saturn, Space Shuttle, F-15, F-18, F-4G, AC-130, U-2, A-12, AV-8B, B 2, Pave Mover/TAWDS, Have Blue, Tacit Blue, Sea Shadow, F-22, NASAMS, GBU-8, GBU-15, AIM- 120, AGM-129, AGM-130, Global Hawk, Predator and others. He has taught well over 120 courses in radar, signal processing, stealth, air defense, naval weapons, circuit design, electrical machinery, CAD, and management. He is a living example that an ordinary engineer can become a multimillionaire by doing his ‘thing’. He has written or contributed to 2 textbooks and has one pending: Introduction to RF Stealth, (SciTech Publishing), Radar Handbook, chapter 5, (McGraw Hill), and Persistent Surveillance: GMTI & SAR (Pending).