Why Does This Fighter Jet Have a Mysterious Golden Window?

A fighter jet’s gold-coloured window can look like science fiction. On aircraft such as the US F-22 Raptor, however, the tint serves a practical goal: making the aircraft harder for radar to detect. The golden fighter jet canopy is not a decorative screen. It is part of a design that treats even the cockpit as a possible source of radar reflections. Why the canopy looks gold The canopy should provide the pilot with an unobstructed and broad vision. However, radar can penetrate an untreated canop

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