'Built around volcanic materials' — Turkish startup wants to make billion-dollar radar systems near…
- Volcanic minerals may allow ordinary drones to evade advanced radar detection systems
- Spray-on stealth coatings could eliminate expensive composite panels from military drone manufacturing
- Radar networks become less effective when drones return with dramatically weaker electronic signatures
A small Turkish defense research company claims it developed a spray-applied radar-absorbing coating capable of reducing drone visibility against modern detection systems.
The project, led by Turkish researcher Yunus İnce, centers around a material called Kürşat 3.0, developed during a seven-year engineering effort.
According to technical details, the coating applies directly onto aircraft surfaces instead of relying upon expensive composite stealth panels or complex structural modifications.
Volcanic materials may change how low-cost drones avoid radar detection
Kürşat 3.0 uses basalt and pumice, both volcanic rocks, as its core ingredients rather than exotic synthetic compounds.
Recent testing reportedly produced an attenuation of 43.2 decibels (dB), a dramatic reduction in the strength of a radar...
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