stealth aircraft
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7.1
- noun
- /stɛlθ ˈɛrkræft/
- Specialized
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avión sigiloso
- Engineers are currently working on the next generation of stealth aircraft to enhance their capabilities.
- stealth aircraft, invisible to radar
Examples
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Today, we have unmanned drones, laser-guided missiles, supersonic stealth aircraft... and that is what we know of...
Blog text (34) -
During the exhibition, visitors were fascinated by the innovations in stealth aircraft technology.
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It was the first electrochromatic invisible stealth aircraft.
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Today, almost everything in stealth aircraft is done optoelectronically through fiber-optic digital data buses.
Fiction book (1995) -
The F117 stealth aircraft, for example, was conceived in 1977 but exposed to the public in 1988, so who knows what technology is available today.
Blog text (1) -
They report on standard jet aircraft crash landings, not stealth aircraft.
Fiction book (1995) -
Carbon fiber composites are also used in stealth aircraft—in screened positions, where they perform important structural functions.
Academic text (1999) -
Once a stealth aircraft's electronics fail, the pilot has no instruments to tell him how high he is, no sensors to warn him of what's ahead, and no workable flight controls to allow him to react to what he can't know anyway.
Fiction book (1995) -
Chinese military doctrine now focuses on countering U.S. high-tech capabilities—information networks, stealth aircraft, cruise missiles, and precision-guided bombs.
Academic text (2004) -
The military revealed its latest stealth aircraft, designed to evade radar detection.
How Capable
- Specialized
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an aircraft designed to avoid detection' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'stealth' (avoiding detection) with 'aircraft' (a flying vehicle). This is a regular attributive compound and follows straightforward compositional semantics common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Stealth aircraft comes from the idea of an aircraft that uses stealth to hide. It is shaped and built to avoid enemy radar, so it means 'hard to detect by radar'.