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Just curious - what's the point of stealth aircraft infiltrating enemy airspace when they can't use radars or they would be shot within 30s? Seems to me like ju

by bitL 8y ago

Just curious - what's the point of stealth aircraft infiltrating enemy airspace when they can't use radars or they would be shot within 30s? Seems to me like just bombers make sense - fly in, enable radar/weapon bay for a few seconds, drop the load, make yourself undetectable again, move out; once the air defense is down, send in 4th gen fighters.

gmueckl 8y ago
Attacking enemy ground anti air positions can be a job for stealth fighters. It is a high risk assignment. But there are few alternatives given the range of mopst AA defenses. These missions often requires the attackers to make their presence known in a controlled way to get enemy targetting radars turned on so that these stations can be tracked and targetted. Once the targetting radar is down, the rest of the AA battery typically becomes pretty useless.
nradov 8y ago
Low observable aircraft can use passive sensors for some purposes, and can also accept data links from other offboard radar platforms. The latest radars are also difficult to detect and can be turned on for a few seconds at a time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-probability-of-intercept_radar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-probability-of-intercept_r... Future radars will probably be designed to emit signals that look like random wide spectrum noise, and then rely on advanced signal processing to assemble the reflected "noise" into a useful picture. It will be challenging for adversaries to detect those emissions in a useful way.
tomohawk 8y ago
You could do a sort of reverse wild weasel attack, where instead of sending in an aircraft ahead of the attacker to light up air defenses, your attacking aircraft could already be there and seeing more of what's going on based on the air defenses interest in the 4th gen aircraft. http://mistyvietnam.com/ http://mistyvietnam.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Weasel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Weasel

by bitL 8y ago

gmueckl 8y ago

Attacking enemy ground anti air positions can be a job for stealth fighters. It is a high risk assignment. But there are few alternatives given the range of mopst AA defenses. These missions often requires the attackers to make their presence known in a controlled way to get enemy targetting radars turned on so that these stations can be tracked and targetted. Once the targetting radar is down, the rest of the AA battery typically becomes pretty useless.

nradov 8y ago

Low observable aircraft can use passive sensors for some purposes, and can also accept data links from other offboard radar platforms. The latest radars are also difficult to detect and can be turned on for a few seconds at a time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-probability-of-intercept_radar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-probability-of-intercept_r... Future radars will probably be designed to emit signals that look like random wide spectrum noise, and then rely on advanced signal processing to assemble the reflected "noise" into a useful picture. It will be challenging for adversaries to detect those emissions in a useful way.

tomohawk 8y ago

You could do a sort of reverse wild weasel attack, where instead of sending in an aircraft ahead of the attacker to light up air defenses, your attacking aircraft could already be there and seeing more of what's going on based on the air defenses interest in the 4th gen aircraft. http://mistyvietnam.com/ http://mistyvietnam.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Weasel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Weasel