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Originally Posted by Wim Libaers
The F-22 would have a bigger advantage if it didn't have to use its radar. Just serving as a missile delivery platform, shooting targets linked to it by AWACS aircraft.
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IIRC the Radar on the AWACS cant target with sufficient accuracy for missile launches, it needs to be handed off to another radar to localize the target.
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Originally Posted by Kazuaki Shimazaki II
More cynically, I won't be shocked if I hear that the F-22s were detected by old SPO-15 systems, ambushed, and destroyed in thier first mission. A modern American system attempts to classify a radar by type (F-15, F-16, SA-8...etc), and the SPO-15 lacks this sophistication (there are 6 little lamps on the bottom for six broad types of radar, like "fighter" and so on), but that may also mean it'd look at the whole spectrum for a radar source instead of splitting it up. Once they do that, they'd catch on that there is really a darn bright, non-coherent, broadband source out there.
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What aircraft carry the SPO-15?