 As a result, its performance in air combat maneuvering required in a dogfight would never match that of a dedicated fighter aircraft.This was unimportant in the case of this aircraft since it was designed to be a bomber.Passive (multistatic) radar, bistatic radar and especially multistatic radar systems detect some stealth aircraft better than conventional monostatic radars, since first-generation stealth technology (such as the F-117) reflects energy away from the transmitter's line of sight, effectively increasing the radar cross section (RCS) in other directions, which the passive radars monitor.