Re: [Fwd: flanker New China Radar technology threatens US Stealth Aircraft!]

On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Imre A. Szabo wrote:

> Not true.  The Soviet military did understand it but rejected it
because
> it could be countered too easily.

Read Ben Rich's book. 

> The stealth aircraft were not supposed to need escorts.  Against
Serbia
> they need only area EW escorts because the Serbs didn't have the new
> Flanker varient.  If they did, then the stealth aircraft would have
> needed fighter escorts as well.  This is my point.

You guys are making stealth out to be this new technology that was to 
make our aircraft invincible. It doesn't. So you say our aircraft are 
useless. Stop believing everything the media says. Stealth doesn't make 
an aircraft invisible. 

The aircraft do solitary penetrations of airspace without fighter
escort. 
When an A-6 did a penetration it had a MIG CAP in the Area to deal with 
problems. The Stealth aircraft are far less vulnerable to airdefenses 
than an A-6 is. Get it through your heads, the aircraft aren't a waste
of 
money because one got shot down. If that was the case then the F-111 
that were used in the gulf war and against Lybia were useless because 
some were shot down during vietnam. 

The F-117 that was shot down was used in a poorly planned mission. Thats

why it got snagged. 

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