When America’s Stealth Monopoly Ends, What's Next?

Russian PAK-FA stealth aircraft design, currently under development.

From Defense Professionals:

11:22 GMT, March 4, 2009 For three decades the United States has held the undisputed monopoly on the most important military technology of the Cold War era - stealth. That monopoly is set to end in the coming decade as the Russians, Indians and, likely, Chinese deploy a new generation of military aircraft designs. Available to any client with the cash, these high technology products will make obsolete the large fleets of legacy Cold War equipment that the West has relied upon since the end of the Cold War to maintain global stability, as well as rendering the planned F-35 Joint Strike Fighter impotent.

A world in which any nation with the cash can procure stealthy manned or robotic aircraft, or cruise missiles, will be very different from the world we see now. Many of the fundamental assumptions made about America’s hitherto undisputed strategic primacy will collapse unless Americans take stock now and start seriously planning for this future.

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My Comment: One must give credit where credit is due. The Russian aeronautical engineers take the best from the West, refine it, and end up producing an airplane that is cheaper and just as effective as the original.

This is a formula that is very hard to beat.