“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.
“Actually it was the Strategic Defense Initiative that is given credit for the Soviets deciding they couldn’t win the arms race.”
Yes, it was. The US invited various key figures of the Soviet Union to come here and witness the technology first hand. They also found we did not have plans to attack them in any way and wanted nothing but commerce with them. Some of their key economic leaders saw dollar signs and went back and supported open borders: Glasnost.