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As far as I know there is no such things as stealth in aircrafts. If you are using modern radar then you can spot any aircraft, even those new stealth jet fight

As far as I know there is no such things as stealth in aircrafts. If you are using modern radar then you can spot any aircraft, even those new stealth jet fighters that the US is about to start cranking out.

milspec 12y ago
Sure there is. Stealth capability isn't a boolean property. Intermittent detection isn't enough to target an aircraft. Being able to track from the ground, with numerous antennas and supercomputers, is much easier than tracking from the limited-diameter head of a radar-guided missile.
- MarkMc 12y ago
  I'm curious: Can modern missiles just rely on ground-based radar?
  - wisemnaofhyrule 12y ago
    Obviously SAMs can, some Air to Air missiles could in theory if you have a nearby ground station guide them. However, the missiles that are guided by the plane have less range, requiring that ground station to be conveniently close by. Thats if were not including ground based radar just providing info to the plane itself.
  - rurounijones 12y ago
    It can be decidedly unhealthy to be broadcasting a radar signal when the enemy might have SEAD aircraft with radar-homing missiles. Having to keep the radar on though-out the missile's entire flight would be a good example of a possibly life-shortening exercise for the sender of the missile.
- shard972 12y ago
  Really? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_F-117A_shootdown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_F-117A_shootdown
  - trhway 12y ago
    as the joke goes, these missiles were very old - they were produced when there were no stealth planes, and thus they didn't know that that plane was supposed to be invisible to them.
    - engi_nerd 12y ago
      Some IRCM systems have historically encountered this same problem in their development. Modern missiles were defeated, but very old missiles were actually attracted. It isn't really a joke so much as a humorous way to describe a nasty reality.
  - tsotha 12y ago
    Yes, really. Did you read the article?
engi_nerd 12y ago
"Stealth" is an array of technologies that can reduce vehicle signatures across significant portions of the EM spectrum. No technology can protect against all wavelengths you might usefully use to detect, and you cannot be equally stealthy with respect to every wavelength from every angle, but you can dramatically reduce the overall apparent cross section (several orders of magnitude) and thus make the vehicle more survivable.

milspec 12y ago

Sure there is. Stealth capability isn't a boolean property. Intermittent detection isn't enough to target an aircraft. Being able to track from the ground, with numerous antennas and supercomputers, is much easier than tracking from the limited-diameter head of a radar-guided missile.

MarkMc 12y ago
I'm curious: Can modern missiles just rely on ground-based radar?
- wisemnaofhyrule 12y ago
  Obviously SAMs can, some Air to Air missiles could in theory if you have a nearby ground station guide them. However, the missiles that are guided by the plane have less range, requiring that ground station to be conveniently close by. Thats if were not including ground based radar just providing info to the plane itself.
- rurounijones 12y ago
  It can be decidedly unhealthy to be broadcasting a radar signal when the enemy might have SEAD aircraft with radar-homing missiles. Having to keep the radar on though-out the missile's entire flight would be a good example of a possibly life-shortening exercise for the sender of the missile.
shard972 12y ago
Really? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_F-117A_shootdown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_F-117A_shootdown
- trhway 12y ago
  as the joke goes, these missiles were very old - they were produced when there were no stealth planes, and thus they didn't know that that plane was supposed to be invisible to them.
  - engi_nerd 12y ago
    Some IRCM systems have historically encountered this same problem in their development. Modern missiles were defeated, but very old missiles were actually attracted. It isn't really a joke so much as a humorous way to describe a nasty reality.
- tsotha 12y ago
  Yes, really. Did you read the article?

engi_nerd 12y ago

"Stealth" is an array of technologies that can reduce vehicle signatures across significant portions of the EM spectrum. No technology can protect against all wavelengths you might usefully use to detect, and you cannot be equally stealthy with respect to every wavelength from every angle, but you can dramatically reduce the overall apparent cross section (several orders of magnitude) and thus make the vehicle more survivable.