How Boeing Reduced the F/A-18’s Radar Signature© A U.S. Navy F/A-18F and F-35, both assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 9, fly over the Point Mugu Sea Range in Southern California ...

The F-35B is not a routine aircraft. It’s a fifth-generation stealth fighter, engineered to dodge conventional radar and fly missions deep into enemy territory.

The flyer said the radar tower was “targeted for elimination by victims of U.S. military weather experimentation.” The flyer gave a name to the project: Operation Leaning Tower.