Comments on diffraction principles and limitations of RCS reduction techniques

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Volumn 84, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1830-1851

  Ufimtsev, Pyotr Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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