German radar vendor can track F-35

[Skybird]

https://www.c4isrnet.com/intel-geoin...m-a-pony-farm/

F35 - too expensive for what it delivers. Not worth the asking price. "Unfair!" Trump will twittwer and call. Who cares. With stealth no longer meaning stealth, its even more unacceptable in its asking price.

I would prefer to take the same money - and buy more units of another plane model. In combinatioin with drones. More firepower for the buck. And own losses can be digested easier if more units are available. On the other hand: where to get the young men flying these polanes then? The Luftwaffe already now has fewer pilots than it has flyable fighters. And most of its fighters that it has now are not flyable, but grounded.

The passive radar technology behind the German system is not omnipotent though. It has limits and cannot work in all places of the globe. But that is the present. They will work on improving its sensors.