Posted on 02/04/2009 8:38:43 AM PST by pobeda1945
(chuckle)
When you are forced to ‘go there’ it becomes laughable, sorry.
Perhaps I’m wrong.
But I suspect anything you read in AW&ST or Janes, if you read something about American tech, it’s already like two generations behind the curve.
That’s the stuff they use to train the rookies.
the US fleet of F-15s, F-16s and F/A-18s, as well as the planned Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), are not capable of surviving against these systems and unless the Americans build another four hundred-plus F-22s, they will lose the strategic advantage they have held since the end of the Cold War....of course, it's irrelevant, because some Russian touch-hole just said the US will collapse by 2010. :') Apparently, no one involved in this "report" takes UAVs into account, or pays close attention to little irrelevancies such as the Israeli destruction of that Syrian nuke site.
Reducing the aircraft Radar Cross Section from 100's of square meters to a small faction of a square meter makes spoofing air defense systems much easier.
The current generation of SAM systems developed by Russia and China are nothing like the legacy SAM systems deployed by the Iraqis in Desert Storm.
Have a read of this article about surviving the modern IADS.
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