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And almost all stealth measures can be defeated by using multiple sensors.

2OEH8eoCRo0 5y ago
Stealth is not perfect and not about never being detected, it's about shooting first. You are going after a military aircraft that is trying to kill you. By the time you lock a B2 it has released its bombs. By the time you lock an F35 you're dead. These aircraft don't just fly around and let you take your sweet time killing them. If you manage to lock one you have to deal with this as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_jamming_and_deception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_jamming_and_deception Some of these are quite sophisticated, example: >Digital radio frequency memory, or DRFM jamming, or Repeater jamming is a repeater technique that manipulates received radar energy and retransmits it to change the return the radar sees. This technique can change the range the radar detects by changing the delay in transmission of pulses, the velocity the radar detects by changing the Doppler shift of the transmitted signal, or the angle to the plane by using AM techniques to transmit into the sidelobes of the radar. Electronics, radio equipment, and antenna can cause DRFM jamming causing false targets, the signal must be timed after the received radar signal. By analysing received signal strength from side and backlobes and thus getting radar antennae radiation pattern, false targets can be created to directions other than one where the jammer is coming from. If each radar pulse is uniquely coded it is not possible to create targets in directions other than the direction of the jammer
- sudosysgen 5y ago
  Jamming AESA radars is basically impossible. "Find the F35 and you're dead" is just wrong and simplistic. Head to head anti-air fights aren't what's gonna happen. The F-35 in every mission it's supposed to do is going to go heads up against multiple different detection platforms.
  - 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y ago
    Ok
  - angry_octet 5y ago
    "Jamming AESA radars is basically impossible." This is so incredibly wrong.
    - sudosysgen 5y ago
      Almost all AESA radars have home-on-jam/passive capability and fairly wide bands. Jamming them is as good as impossible.
      - angry_octet 5y ago
        The world's air forces disagree.

Stealth is not perfect and not about never being detected, it's about shooting first. You are going after a military aircraft that is trying to kill you. By the time you lock a B2 it has released its bombs. By the time you lock an F35 you're dead. These aircraft don't just fly around and let you take your sweet time killing them. If you manage to lock one you have to deal with this as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_jamming_and_deception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_jamming_and_deception Some of these are quite sophisticated, example: >Digital radio frequency memory, or DRFM jamming, or Repeater jamming is a repeater technique that manipulates received radar energy and retransmits it to change the return the radar sees. This technique can change the range the radar detects by changing the delay in transmission of pulses, the velocity the radar detects by changing the Doppler shift of the transmitted signal, or the angle to the plane by using AM techniques to transmit into the sidelobes of the radar. Electronics, radio equipment, and antenna can cause DRFM jamming causing false targets, the signal must be timed after the received radar signal. By analysing received signal strength from side and backlobes and thus getting radar antennae radiation pattern, false targets can be created to directions other than one where the jammer is coming from. If each radar pulse is uniquely coded it is not possible to create targets in directions other than the direction of the jammer

sudosysgen 5y ago
Jamming AESA radars is basically impossible. "Find the F35 and you're dead" is just wrong and simplistic. Head to head anti-air fights aren't what's gonna happen. The F-35 in every mission it's supposed to do is going to go heads up against multiple different detection platforms.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y ago
  Ok
- angry_octet 5y ago
  "Jamming AESA radars is basically impossible." This is so incredibly wrong.
  - sudosysgen 5y ago
    Almost all AESA radars have home-on-jam/passive capability and fairly wide bands. Jamming them is as good as impossible.
    - angry_octet 5y ago
      The world's air forces disagree.