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The Northrop Tacit Blue's unusual shape is the outgrowth of requirements to carry a large side-looking radar antenna, to have a low radar cross section in the side aspect, and to test a curvilinear, rather than faceted, approach to low RCS. The result was an aerodynamically unstable aircraft that...
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