For years, Americans without healthcare have been able to reassure themselves that although they may be denied life-saving cancer treatment, at least their country had fighter jets and aircraft carriers that could reduce cities to rubble.
No, the engineers knew it would be visible like anything else, because they’re not completely stupid. A lot of stuff still relies on radar, though, and other frequencies and tools can have limitations, like in range or “does-it-work-in-rain”. Consider how many F-35s made it over Iran safe and sound.
Presumably they’re as sneaky as possible in other ways as well, although at some point it’s still a jet plane.
Yeah, sorry, that’s wasn’t very clear. I think I was in too many parallel discussions about this at once.
What I mean is just that the designers absolutely did know other sensors could and would be used for targeting. It’s jut a question of how much that lowers survivability, exactly. The amount of traffic over Iran indicates it’s still good, because radar is still the main game in town.
No, the engineers knew it would be visible like anything else, because they’re not completely stupid. A lot of stuff still relies on radar, though, and other frequencies and tools can have limitations, like in range or “does-it-work-in-rain”. Consider how many F-35s made it over Iran safe and sound.
Presumably they’re as sneaky as possible in other ways as well, although at some point it’s still a jet plane.
I think you missed the comment I replied to
Yeah, sorry, that’s wasn’t very clear. I think I was in too many parallel discussions about this at once.
What I mean is just that the designers absolutely did know other sensors could and would be used for targeting. It’s jut a question of how much that lowers survivability, exactly. The amount of traffic over Iran indicates it’s still good, because radar is still the main game in town.
Yeah, stealth is relative until we get StarTrek cloaking devices :)