Re: infra-red and mirrors

Thanks everyone. The main reason I suggested the mirror periscope idea
is because ny aircraft needs to have a very low radar cross-section.
A spherical gimbal would have the same radar cross section when the
radar is looking at the aircraft from all directions, where as a simple
flat plate mirror pokking out of the bottom would only have a
significant radar signature over a very short range of directions.

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