F-117Stealth Finally Meets Its Match -- The Dew Line/Flight Global
A US Marine Corps pilot posits in a very good new issue of Joint Forces Quarterly that the age of stealth domination in airpower is over.
Since the 1991 Gulf War, the USAF has launched thousands of stealth bombing sorties against the hardest targets offered by Baghdad, Belgrade and Baghdad again, yet suffered only one recorded combat loss when an F-117 was shot down over Serbia in 1999. Perhaps no other technology in history has dominated the battlefield as long or as absolutely as the stealthy airframe.
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My Comment: For old stealth planes the answer is probably yes, but as the previous post clearly states, new technology will make planes even more "stealthier".
Makes you wonder if the stealth features of the F-35 (already) makes it obsolete.
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ReplyDeleteThis is a bit off topic. I just wrote a rather lengthy post on why the U.S. scrapped the European missile shield and the consequences of doing so. I would appreciate any input you might have. Feel free to leave a comment on the post if you have time.
Thanks,
~T. Greer