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>If you're in passive stealth mode, you can't detect the enemy and they can't detect you until both sides are extremely close Your side can have another plane

>If you're in passive stealth mode, you can't detect the enemy and they can't detect you until both sides are extremely close Your side can have another plane paint the enemy plane, so now you can see him without your emitting anything.

hajile 2y ago
If the illuminating plane is not a stealth plane, then it'll get shot by the stealth plane long before it can detect the stealth plane. If the illuminating plane is a stealth plane, then you've just traded on stealth plane for another. Even worse, there's a decent chance that your broadcasting plane gets shot down, the illumination fails, and the enemy stealth plane still gets away leaving you one plane less for no gains at all.
- hollerith 2y ago
  The way the USAF has been doing it for a few decades is to make the illuminator very powerful so it can stand back 600 miles. They call it AWACS.
  - hajile 2y ago
    AWACS can't lock onto a stealth plane from that far away.
    - hollerith 2y ago
      Agreed.