your notions of faceting versus aerodynamics are quite incorect.
the facteing in F117 that made it bad flyer was that the angle of facet (that we could compare to sweep angles) was not optimum even bad for the inflow going.
just in the nose , the airflows vetors encountered thick surfaces less than 40° degrées surfaces.
in addiation all thoses surface were not blended to follow the flows.
Wich has nothing to do with raptor where NOWHERE incoming flows encounter high section areas.
It you had read what i wrote, i told you one the Low Observable theory used today is not to have direct reflection by diverting, and on part of the plane that are necessarily reflection, adjusting sweep angles so that the returns are not done in the emitter directions.
Read it and dig it. this principle applies to EVERY PLANE because what you mention, are parts of the plane that , on all plane, poses problems for stealth.
Every tail is a big reflector, nose from side is a reflector etc..
So LM choosed selected sweep angles, they are not flat as you see to believe and morevore their relative inclinaison has nothing to do with airsflows.
Airflows come for ahead and the section of the nose of the raptor (wich is lower than that of an F-15) does not pose any problem.
As to convince you, the F5 SSBD prooved its reduction in supersonic drag having and F-22 like nose (steched but with same section).
OGAMI Mushashi
Stealth is based upon two principles: one is radar absorbent materials and the other reflection angle or radar emission scattering, like light that is also a electromagnetic wave, the stealth treatment is absed upon reflection, refraction and absoption of radio waves.
The basic principle was reflect the less radar emission by absorbing it, reflecting it away from the original emitter radar.
The F-117 uses faceting in great degree, the F-22 in less degree, the most important is the reflection angle, this is what forced engineers to facet the aircraft fuselage and use planform alignment.
A fractal angle is used in the F-22 to give it the same reflection angle at any point where two edges form an angle or two surfaces meet.
but aerodynamics have played a bigger role in the F-22 fuselage, also the F-22 needed some fuselage wing blending and a more parabolic countour of its radome.
The rhomboid shape and serrated nozzles are features seen in the F-22 as in the B-2, F-117 and F-35.
Of course the F-117 and the F-22 are different because one is a pure stealth fighter and an expensive diamond and the other is a much less faceted aircraft a cheap diamond but better fighter, a true fighter.
the F-117 is a flying diamond, while the F-22 is a faceted F-15ACTIVE
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