The end of stealth aircraft era?

[Kloef]

Stealth was doomed from the beginning, it's much easier to build better detection systems than design a new aircraft with the latest stealth technology, when the aircraft is finished 15 years after it was designed it's not up to the latest anti-air technology.

What boggles the mind is that the designers never recogized that, maybe they were afraid to lose their job.

In war quantity beats quality, build alot of bombers and fighters so your enemy has too much targets to shoot at, a proven concept.

To design something stealthy is not a bad choice, the more stealth the harder it is to track you or for a missile to track you, but you should not concede too much so you end up with a flying platform that is incapable of even entering a dogfight, like the JSF.

At least the Russians get it, a little stealth, a good airframe at half the costs of what anybody else builds ( T-50), and a backbone of good aircraft like the SU-35, quantity wins..