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Efosa Udinmwen

'Built around volcanic materials' — Turkish startup wants to make billion-dollar radar systems near obsolete with cheap spray-in-a-can tech that claims to bring stealth capabilities to low-cost drones

Turkisk Kürşat 3.0 coated drone.
  • Volcanic minerals may allow ordinary drones to evade advanced radar detection systems
  • Spray-on stealth coatings could eliminate expensive composite panels from military drone manufacturing
  • Radar networks become less effective when drones return with dramatically weaker electronic signatures

A small Turkish defense research company claims it developed a spray-applied radar-absorbing coating capable of reducing drone visibility against modern detection systems.

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