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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
If I had anti-stealth detection capabilities, you can be damn sure I wouldn't use it until the shooting started. We'll never know how good detection systems are until the shooting starts for real, and my guess is it'll turn out that Stealth confers a relatively small benefit.
Unless we're talking about a second tier combatant, in which case Stealth is still a moot point since actively suppressing radar sites has proven to be ridiculously easy.
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Then why are the Chinese, Russians, American's and Europeon aeronautical defense companies throwing their lot into stealth.
Radar theory really doesn't change that much.
Admittedly the F-35 has what's called a stealth radar tracking system which puts out lower background type energy that makes it undetectable, but that doesn't mean that it can effectively pick up stealth actively.
As of right now and you can look at any journal in the world that discusses air doctrine and stealth there isn't a counter that can overcome the air frame reflective irregularities and the RAM materials to get a solid return off of a properly built stealth aircraft.
The Russian's biggest fear isn't ICBM's its deep penetration bombers with stealth technology.
Intercepting ICBM's is a matter of math and computing power.
Defeating Stealth is a whole other thing.