From the chans via X. Dont know if it is true..but SOMETHING happened.
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I think collateral damage meant the rounds that missed had to land somewhere. Another question in my head, the official accounts talk about the transponder being off and then pretend that makes it invisible. Stealth tech has to be turned on, it's not automatically always on, so that plane was not invisible. If it disappeared from radar without the tech being activated, does that not mean it had to have dropped out/down? If the tech was activated, why, and why not say so? Why pretend that the transponder is what makes aircraft visible to radar?
Radar stealth is essentially a passive affair, established by the shaping of the fuselage and wings, and by special absorptive coatings. Active systems light you up, but may be necessary to dodge an air-to-air missile by using ECM. Transponders make the airplane "visible" to the transponder tracking system, which is not a radar.
The minute they go to hover the radar cross section is exposed. It’s a huge flap. Wtf was it doing hovering a half a mile up in the air? None of this makes sense
First, the altitude was above sea level, so it is not clear what it was in relation to terrain. But the odds are good that it was in what we call the "ground clutter" for any ground-based radar (half a mile up at 10 miles distance would be an elevation above terrain of about 3 degrees, farther being less), so it would not have appeared on any surveillance system. Can't see it for the nearby trees or buildings.
Second, it was performing hover flight maneuvers (as they declared). I expect this was a training exercise or possibly an equipment check.
Stealth has a bunch of things working together, like the paint and the angles and shape of the plane. You can't "turn on or for that matter turn off" the paint or the shape.