Chinese company sells ‘stealth core technology by the kilo’ to make drones almost invisible to radar – spray coating is almost affordable by F-117 standards, reduces radar reflected power by 50%

• Star-Navi, a Shenzhen-based company, is now selling access to stealth drone technology that normally presents a multibillion-dollar barrier to entry in the form of a standard package containing a spray gun.
• This technology essentially makes a drone’s radar cross section smaller and harder to track on modern radars.
• The coatings are marketed as the XRAM-C series, with 3 different variants offered to handle different threat radar frequencies.

Although modern drone technology has evolved significantly from the rudimentary designs we first saw over a decade ago, it is becoming an increasingly important industry that most countries’ militaries can use and counter.

Two recent modern conflicts, including the war between Russia and Ukraine, as well as the war between the United States and Iran, have shown that drones are effective and often inexpensive means of waging unconventional conflict that can often cause significant damage to a conventionally stronger adversary.