On the Hawk's tracking system, our fighter's radar profile would show up as smaller than a hummingbird's. What makes this stealth airplane so revolutionary is that it will deflect radar beams like a bulletproof shield, and the missile battery will never electronically "see" it coming. If that defensive system locks on during this test, our experimental airplane flunks the course.īut I'm confident that our stealth technology will prove too elusive for even this Hawk missile's powerful tracking system (capable of detecting a live hawk riding on the thermals from thirty miles away). Under combat conditions, that airplane would be blasted to pieces. To help them, I've actually provided Have Blue's flight plan to the missile crew, which is like pointing my finger at a spot in the empty sky and saying, "Aim right here." All they've got to do is acquire the airplane on radar, and the homing system inside the Hawk missile will do the rest. The Marines hope to find Have Blue from at least fifty miles away and push all the right buttons so that the deadly Hawks will lock on. We in the Skunk Works have built the world's first pure stealth fighter, which is designed to evade the Hawk's powerful radar tracking. It's August 1979 on the scorching Nevada desert, where Marines armed with ground-to-air Hawk missiles are trying to score a "kill" against my new airplane, an experimental prototype code-named Have Blue.
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