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The United States has poured ten of billions of dollars into developing fifth-generation stealth fighters such as the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. However, relatively simple signal processing enhancements, combined with a missile with a large warhead and its own terminal guidance system, could potentially allow low-frequency radars and such weapons systems to target and fire on the latest generation U.S. aircraft.
It is a well-known fact within Pentagon and industry circles that low-frequency radars operating in the VHF and UHF bands can detect and track low-observable aircraft. It has generally been held that such radars can’t guide a missile onto a target—i.e. generate a “weapons quality” track. But that is not exactly correct—there are ways to get around the problem according to some experts.
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WNU Editor: Hmmmm .... it looks like this plane is easier to kill than what they are telling us.
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Umm you shoot something at..duh
Perhaps in the final analysis it will come down to who has the most units either aggressive or defensive wins/survives. Once the satellites are out the technological advantage will be gone.
During the London Olympics, BAE debued a "passive" radar air defence system.
Radar was origionally discovered when a British scientist noted that commercial flights out of his local airport, caused interference in his BBC radio reception.
The BAE system basically uses a large array of different antenna's and computers to "map" and create a 3D model of the local EM transmissions. Any aircraft transiting through that "map" creates a void that generates size, altitude and direction vectors.
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