Turkey develops radar absorbent materials

ANKARA, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Researchers from Middle East Technical University (ODTU) of Turkey developed a new radar absorbent materials which could be useful for stealth technology, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Tuesday.

The new materials could reduce the visibility of military vehicles such as ships, aircraft, helicopters and submarines on radars by 1/1000, said the report, quoting Prof. Levent Toppare from ODTU's Chemistry Department.

"Materials used in stealth technology should be thin and light in order to ensure the proper functioning of the platform they are used in," said Toppare.

He added that the new materials, which are resistant to fire, salt, moss, friction, water and impacts, are only two millimeters thick.

"The most important feature of the new materials is that they provide high absorption and reduce the radar cross section by 1/1000, which means it enables a 100-squaremeter object to be perceived as 0.1 square meter," Toppare said, adding "in that way, it would be almost impossible for a radar to perceive such an object."

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