The Latest Triumph of Russian Science

By SOPHFRONIA SCOTT GREGORY

THE THREAT OF SPEEDING TICKETS HAS SPURRED THE SWIFT development of RADAR- EVASION technology -- and not just in car-crazed countries like the U.S. and Japan. The military-communications journal Signal reports that at a military laboratory northeast of Moscow, scientists are conducting a new kind of applied research: painting their automobiles with the stealth coatings designed to protect Russia's high-performance aircraft from detection by radar. Invisible to radar guns, the lab docs expect to zip along the roads ticket-free.