> Probably a stupid question, but my first thought was, "doesn't making it more detectable defeat the purpose?" Maybe you don't want your stealth aircraft to b

> Probably a stupid question, but my first thought was, "doesn't making it more detectable defeat the purpose?" Maybe you don't want your stealth aircraft to be stealthy during peacetime, to avoid giving your adversaries the possibility to get their hands on some valuable training data. For example, if you are China or Russia, wouldn't you place some agents with some antennas around the US Air Force training bases and compare the radio reception with the visual sightings? If the radio reception is not the same you'd see during wartime, all this exercise is futile.