>>11130003While pondering the problem a convoy of Tan light vehicles rolls in, dropping off crates of supplies and munitions. As the airfield's garrison unloads the boxes one accidentally scratches the paint of one of the trucks, a stream of loud profanities dancing through the air all the way to the Green soldier watching them.
This random accident gives the Captain a new angle to ponder: stealth technology works by applying radar-absorbing coatings to the desired aircraft or vehicle, which itself has been designed to maximize the effectiveness of said coating. In all probability the Tans have stumbled across a coating that works above and beyond anything developed to date.
The officer muses on these points and wonders to himself...
>the balance between coating and design in stealth technology can be very delicate>even a minor defect in either part of this symbiosis can serve to reduce the overall effectiveness of the stealth 