Stealth technology was considered the straw that broke the camels back of communism and the USSR not because stealth technology was invincible, but because the sum total of the various stealth fighter and bombers projects in the works in the late 1980s would have required the USSR to invest massive sums of money and assets in a crash program to completely overhaul their air defense radar systems.
This investment would have economically ruined an already economically tottering the USSR and probably would have been unsuccessful in producing systems capable of protecting the USSR from nuclear attack given their technology at the time.
See immediately prior post.
“Stealth technology was considered the straw that broke the camels back of communism and the USSR not because stealth technology was invincible, but because the sum total of the various stealth fighter and bombers projects in the works in the late 1980s would have required the USSR to invest massive sums of money and assets in a crash program to completely overhaul their air defense radar systems.”
Actually it was the Strategic Defense Initiative that is given credit for the Soviets deciding they couldn’t win the arms race.