Fri Nov 16, 2018, 12:22 AM
KWR65 (1,098 posts)
$100 of billons spent on stealth aircraft was for nothing. China builds radar that defeats stealth..
fighters.
Radar is a powerful military tool because it makes it possible to spot enemy aircraft beyond the line of sight. It does this by sending out a burst of radio energy, which bounces back when it encounters another object. So-called “stealth” aircraft try to get around this by becoming invisible to radar — either by using flat, angular shapes to reflect radar signals away from radar equipment or by using materials which absorb radar signals. Stealth Radar Detector
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KWR65 | Nov 2018 | OP |
flibbitygiblets | Nov 2018 | #1 | |
aikoaiko | Nov 2018 | #2 | |
Algernon Moncrieff | Nov 2018 | #12 | |
Crutchez_CuiBono | Nov 2018 | #3 | |
Takket | Nov 2018 | #4 | |
edhopper | Nov 2018 | #5 | |
BootinUp | Nov 2018 | #6 | |
roamer65 | Nov 2018 | #7 | |
WhiteTara | Nov 2018 | #8 | |
tirebiter | Nov 2018 | #9 | |
Small-Axe | Nov 2018 | #10 | |
phleshdef | Nov 2018 | #11 | |
LastLiberal in PalmSprings | Nov 2018 | #13 | |
Abnredleg | Nov 2018 | #14 |
Response to KWR65 (Original post)
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 12:25 AM
flibbitygiblets (7,220 posts)
1. This is why we can't have nice things
Like healthcare and education.
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Response to KWR65 (Original post)
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 12:27 AM
aikoaiko (32,703 posts)
2. I dunno. 30-40 years is a good run.
Response to aikoaiko (Reply #2)
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 02:10 AM
Algernon Moncrieff (5,514 posts)
12. Exactly
And we will be busily working on ECM for their new radar.
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Response to KWR65 (Original post)
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 12:35 AM
Crutchez_CuiBono (7,725 posts)
3. Thats a lot of dough.
Imagine the bridges it would have built.
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Response to KWR65 (Original post)
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 12:42 AM
Takket (16,773 posts)
4. Inventing it and deploying it are two different things
Stealth will be the owner of the skies for years to come. And unless other countries buy it or steal it from China, if it is even legit, that is still just one country that has it.
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Response to KWR65 (Original post)
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 12:43 AM
edhopper (29,370 posts)
5. Are they also working on a transporter
Entwined photons? Quantum Physics doesn't work like this.
China is trolling. |
Response to KWR65 (Original post)
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 01:07 AM
roamer65 (31,929 posts)
7. Given our fiscal situation, we won't be able to afford the aircraft soon anyway.
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Fri Nov 16, 2018, 01:10 AM
WhiteTara (27,752 posts)
8. Remember when *co gave China the plane
for a couple of weeks? It took them some time, but they reversed engineered it and now ooopsie.
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Response to KWR65 (Original post)
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 01:12 AM
tirebiter (2,235 posts)
9. The Chinese advised the Serbians how to detect stealth bombers doing the Kosovo battle.
The stealth bombers appeared to be the size of insects on radar, The trick was to note that insects do not move at mach 5.
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Response to KWR65 (Original post)
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 01:15 AM
Small-Axe (359 posts)
10. Bernie Sanders is the biggest proponent of the F-35 Stealth Fighter...
as long as they are built in Vermont.
$1.5 trillion over the next 55 years and he's all in. |
Response to KWR65 (Original post)
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 02:08 AM
phleshdef (11,936 posts)
11. Did you read your own article? The Chinese won't even try to prove this technology exists.
I'm not gonna defend our rock gut stupid military/defense spending but still, lets keep it real.
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Response to KWR65 (Original post)
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 03:00 AM
LastLiberal in PalmSprings (12,133 posts)
13. In the U.K. they figured out how to track stealth aircraft by using cell tower signals.
Kind of defeats the purpose, don't you think?
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Response to KWR65 (Original post)
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 07:58 AM
Abnredleg (512 posts)
14. Detecting Stealth is not particularly difficult
Targeting is the problem. It's been known for years that there are various technologies such as low frequency or bi-static radars can detect stealth aircraft. But once they are detected by surveillance radar the data has to be handed over to a fire control radar that will guide a weapon to the target, and stealth technology is optimized to defeat those types of radar.
Stealth is not the equivalent of a Romulan cloaking device that renders an aircraft invisible, but rather a number of technologies that limit the effectiveness of particular enemy threats. If an enemy radar can normally detect you at 100 miles but your weapons have a range of 75 miles and stealth degrades the radar range to 50 miles then you have an advantage, even though the enemy can "detect" you. |