Fighter jets like the F-16 have a microlayer of 24-karat gold coating on their cockpit canopies to act as a mirror shield that bounces enemy radar waves away, making the cockpit invisible to tracking systems and preventing enemy radars from detecting the pilot's helmet and other metal components inside.
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Why is the cockpit glass of a US fighter jet coated in real gold? It's not for style, and it's not to block the sun.
The canopy of an F-16 has a microlayer of actual 24-karat gold. The truth is, enemy radars can easily [music] look inside a fighter jet's cockpit. The metal parts and even the pilot's helmet reflect radar waves so heavily that the jet lights up on air defense screens like a Christmas tree. The gold coating acts as a mirror shield. It bounces the enemy radar waves away, making the cockpit completely invisible to tracking systems. Without this precious metal, stealth technology simply wouldn't work.
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