Stealth technology has mainly been developed and used for military purposes. This is especially crucial, given the need for discrete and inconspicuous movement in the military, as well as in a military battle with an opponent. Stealth technology comprises of many different components, such as blocking infrared detection, evading radar detection as well as invisibility.



The question, interestingly, is whether how militaries around the world have found applications for stealth, and advances that the militaries have produced for stealth technology. Modern warfare strategies demand for continuous concealment - the ability to evade detection, is premised upon the concept of concealing anything which is capable of physically protecting an individual from enemy fire. This is however, not predicated on the concept of covering, in that an object or area of concealment only affords the benefit of stealth, not actual protection from small arms fire or artillery fragments. An example of "cover vs. concealment" would be sandbags vs. tall grass.



CONCEALMENT IS NOW MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER

 

Time had it that concealment assumes a larger than life role in the modern military complex. Militaries need a radical change of strategic thinking, about the concept of concealment, and the possible product that a radicalised form of concealment can offer. This is where stealth technology, or as military enthusiasts prefer, “low-observable technology”, attempt at providing a solution to radicalise concealment. The purpose of concealment is ultimately, one that provide end-users an edge to evade detection by hostile forces, in which stealth is described as a sub-discipline of military tactics and passive electronic countermeasures, which cover a range of techniques used with personnel, aircraft, ships, submarines, and missiles, to make them less visible (ideally invisible) to radar, infrared, sonar and other detection methods.



Early incarnation of stealth application alludes to merely manipulating the geometrical composition of a device, by developing a particular shape for military tools, mainly warplanes, that tended to reduce detection, by redirecting electromagnetic waves from radars. Radar-absorbent material was also tested and made to reduce or block radar signals that reflect off from the surface of planes.