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Putting words in the mouths of others is a perilous and arrogant habit. At a lot has changed post P-18 Serbia. VHF and high power L-band ground search and also
by burnt-resistor 1y ago
Putting words in the mouths of others is a perilous and arrogant habit.
At a lot has changed post P-18 Serbia. VHF and high power L-band ground search and also guidance radar tech of RU and CN are the real threats and they aren't being adequately addressed in either SEAD or first-strike capabilities.
F-117A has a tiny payload and relatively large RCS in VHF. The B-2 RAM can't handle moisture and overall isn't easily upgraded. F-22 doesn't meet RCS RFP requirements in any abeam aspect in any band, only frontal; it has 90's avionics; it's hard to make more of them; and LO maintainers at Tyndall are constantly busy repairing crumbling RAM. LRS-B isn't really IOC, Super Raptor is still fragmented and experimental, and "F-47" is still complete vaporware. Fat Amy isn't as good as the West believes it is against modern, real ground-based search and guidance radar tech of RU and CN.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/radar-rus.htm https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/radar-r... https://archive.ph/f0fxZ https://archive.ph/f0fxZ
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/radar.htm https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/radar.ht... https://archive.ph/wMhDf https://archive.ph/wMhDf
- hollerith 1y agoRAM == radar absorbent material LO == low observability Tyndall Air Force Base is in Florida. LRS-B == the Long Range Strike-Bomber program, i.e., the B-21 Raider IOC == initial operational capability Fat Amy == the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter