The end of stealth aircraft era?

Kloef · 09-14-12, 06:03 PM

Stealth has allways been about being as hard to find as possible, making it difficult or time consuming for the adversary to target, and more important track you and fire a missile that can be guided through tracking or active radar of it's own, then you still have to collerate, is my missile doing what i want it to do? There lies the challenge. Being hard to track can also be done by aggressive manouvres but they are time and feul consuming, let alone dangerous..

In dogfights the whole thing changes, the stealth advantages in the design will work against the aircraft in most cases but the F-22, the JSF will have a problem dealing with that and will lose against an aircraft like the SU-35 because of its manouverability.

It's also about being hard to see, look at how the Italian Airforce used their old starfighters in their late career, they would send up two starfighters along with a Tornado ADF and let it sit in the back playing awacs for the starfighters, they would leave their radar switched of and because the aircraft is small and hard to see head on it would make for a difficult aircraft to target, and it was backed by the Tornado in any case..

The only stealth weapon is a nuclear submarine..

09-14-12, 06:03 PM	#16
Kloef Weps Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Netherlands Posts: 360 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	Stealth has allways been about being as hard to find as possible, making it difficult or time consuming for the adversary to target, and more important track you and fire a missile that can be guided through tracking or active radar of it's own, then you still have to collerate, is my missile doing what i want it to do? There lies the challenge. Being hard to track can also be done by aggressive manouvres but they are time and feul consuming, let alone dangerous.. In dogfights the whole thing changes, the stealth advantages in the design will work against the aircraft in most cases but the F-22, the JSF will have a problem dealing with that and will lose against an aircraft like the SU-35 because of its manouverability. It's also about being hard to see, look at how the Italian Airforce used their old starfighters in their late career, they would send up two starfighters along with a Tornado ADF and let it sit in the back playing awacs for the starfighters, they would leave their radar switched of and because the aircraft is small and hard to see head on it would make for a difficult aircraft to target, and it was backed by the Tornado in any case.. The only stealth weapon is a nuclear submarine.. __________________ http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/