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

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

> It doesn't surprise me at all.  The theory behind multi-faceted 
stealth design (aka stealth fighter, F 117) was developed by a Russian

This was Pyotr Ufimstev, cheif scientist at the Moscow Institute of
Radio 
Engineering. The paper was very obtuse and hard to understand. Its not 
like the technology was proposed to the polit bureau or anything. He 
wrote a paper and noone understood it. The concepts the came up with in 
the paper were the calculations used to compute radar cross sections.
Not 
the whole process. It was the Skunk Works crew that did the hard work
and 
built the damn things. 

> The purpose of Stealth is to be able to fly attack aircraft without 
escorts.  Well, after one F 117 was shot down in Serbia, all stealth
aircraft

Sort of. Stealth is there to assist in making deeper penetrations
through 
defended airspace while having more options for routes through the 
defending radar coverage. The F117 that was shot down in Serbia was
because 
the flight path was the same as the past two nights operations. The
serbs were able 
to deploy so as to get the best position. 

> (F 117 and B 2) were escorted.  Stealth is a multi-trillion dollar 
failure.

Keep in mind this is escorted within the area by EW aircraft. Not 
escorted in the same formation. Stealth is no more a failure than a 
ghillie suit that gets seen by a countersniper when the guy in the suit 
crosses a road. 

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