September 19, 2020
The Reason America's Rivals Fear the Air Force's Stealth Planes
The F-22, F-35, and B-2 are all highly capable and can evade detection until it is too late.
by Kris Osborn
Key point: America's stealth fighters and bombers are not indestructable. However, they are so hard to find and kill that they would make a lopsided difference in any major war.
Despite the loud and fast-growing chorus of analysts, critics and weapons developers who continue to raise the question as to whether stealth technology may slowly be becoming obsolete, some senior weapons developers are citing some ways current and emerging stealth platforms will - for years to come - remain very difficult to destroy.
Russian built S-300 and S-400 air defense weapons, believed by many to be among the best in the world, are able to use digital technology to network “nodes†to one another to pass tracking and targeting data across wide swaths of terrain. New air defenses also use advanced command and control technology to detect aircraft across a much wider spectrum of frequencies than previous systems could. Also, much is being made of Russia’s emerging S-500 system, purported to be even more sophisticated against stealth aircraft.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/reason-americas-rivals-fear-air-forces-stealth-planes-169312
