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Originally Posted by ACE-OF-ACES

Who knows, had the Horten's continued to work on their projects post war they too may have found the need to do the same.

Possible. The Go229 got it's stability mostly from it's "tail" design. Something Northrop only came up with much later in form of the B2.

The only thing we know for sure is that the B2 was not based on a Horten design.

Possible again. The B2 resembles the original Go229 much more then it resembles the 40ies, 50ies Northrop designs in regards to the extended wing area backwards around the fuselage.
Though completly agreed that the B2 is not based on the Horten, I think it is a bit naive to assume they did not get "any" inspiration from the Go229, which managed stability in a flying wing design to a degree not topped again until fly by wire.
Actually, Northrop dismissing that while developing the B2 would have been outright stupid. There was a reason their wings were pulled out of service in the 50ies.

That is not to diminish Northrop's designs and break throughs, far from it.

Thus the question should be is there anything that would be considered proof that they intended it to be stealth..

Time has a funny way of 'adding' to the myths..

Take the Me262 for example, ask your average History Channel watcher what was the first 'intentional' swept wing jet design and most will tell you it was the Me262.. When in fact the initial design of the Me262 had straight wings, they were swepted back NOT to take advantage of swepted wing aspects, they were swepted back to account for the lager than expect engine size/weight to correct the cg. Another example good example is the V2 rocket.. Ask your average history Channel watcher where some of the major V2 component designs came from.. Like the fuel pump, thrust steering veins, etc and they would say Von Braun came up with that during the war, when in fact those, and many other components used on the V2 were based on Robert Goddard's designs that he used in the 20s and 30s on his rockets.

If you argue this way, then nothing was ever invented which wasn't there before in some way or another, intentional or not. Bringing together already existing concepts and ideas to make them work and then into a practical and persistent application is what matters.

Myths, btw, start by a lot of ppl expiriencing awe in sight of something new. So whatever swept winged jets or ballistic missles were there before the Me262 and the V2, they obviously failed to have an impact. (Same btw, applies to the myth of the english inventing and using RADAR for the first time)

Was it radar absorbing material? I thought they used rubberized coatings on Subs to absorbe sonar, not radar.

Anti sonar for the hull, anti radar for persicopes and snorkles.

http://www.radarworld.org/radarwar.pdf