according to the law of conservation of energy, energy can neither be created nor destroyed unless it is converted into matter according to Einstein’s equation E = mc2. incoming electromagnetic waves hitting radar absorbing paint must be converted into another energy form as they cannot be converted into matter. the most common conversion is into heat as described in wikipedia. this heating process is similar to what happens in a microwave oven where electromagnetic waves are converted into heat on the surface of food.
Before you get all scientific there, Food gets heated up because of the Water dipoles, Ceramic plates don’t get heated even when you keep it with the food. The smarter you are trying to be more ridiculous you are sounding.
With respect to radar there are things called scattering and surface waves before you even consider absorption. Hence F-22 is shaped like so for this reason.
Most plant and animal tissues have water hence they get heated up with microwave. An empty microwave oven will not heat up at all even if it is made of metal. For further trivia, pure ice with 0% water will not melt in a microwave. It melts coz if there is a single water molecule it will have a cascading effect due to the dipolar interaction of a single molecule melting those in close proximity. And most composites are microwave transparent.
jets such as F-22 which make use of radar absorbing paint are vulnerable to AESA / IRST combos which use an AESA as a heater for an IRST 😀
:D:D . Which means the AESA has be really close to cause any noticeable change in surface temperature of a microwave irradiatable substance. You could just use your eyeball instead at that range. For reference a Magnetron outputs 1kW over 15 cm distance and concentrated in an area of hardly 200 to 400 cm2 and that too for water. Now try an AESA with 25kW, to irradiate an area over a distance of 100 km you need to spread that power over 62000 km2. You can calculate the power density yourself. don’t forget to consider attenuation 😉
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