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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Wouldn't modern air crafts used by the U.S. military also be faster, quieter and generally stealthier than a large clunky commercial airliner as well?
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Well yeah, the F-35 on the most modern radar is in theory supposed to have a Radar Cross Section of .1 meters. So it would show up as something like the size of a small bird. (possible correction) the Radar cross section of the F-35 is equivalent to a metal golf ball, the smallest RCS is suppossed to be the F22 Raptor which is roughly the size of a steel marble.
The Tor would probably have trouble picking up the F-35. And there's probably a pretty good chance that if this was an F-35 strike, and they were concerned with Iranian Radar that they would combine their stealth capability with its built in electronic counter measures or active electronic attacks on the SAM batteries Radar.
For the most part the radar screen from what I've seen from theories around the F-35 would be unreadable and the radar would be trying to pinpoint something that looks like the size of a sparrow.
It it was an attack by conventional 4 generation fighters, its likely that any strike would be proceeded by dedicated jamming attacks or even a strike using Anti-Radiation missiles to kill sam sites.
The Radar Cross section of a 767 would be massive, like 100 Meters.
