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Airmen load an X-51A WaveRider hypersonic test vehicle onto a B-52. Air Force photo
Those Serbs had a LOT of help...even from NATO...in getting that bird.
Spies in Italy, ingress routes locked in, etc.
I suspect that it was Clintoon and his cabal of leftists that sacrificed that bird so the commies and our enemies could learn from it.
Build a better cloaking device and the world will beat a path to your...no wait a second!
Interesting since the first mention of what we now call stealth technology was a paper published in an obscure soviet mathematics journal during the cold war that hypothesized the clever arrangement of surfaces to minimize radar echos, that was noticed by US researchers who ran with the idea.
A bigger threat would be bistatic radars and using external signals like TV or cell towers as the signal source. A lot of stealth is focused on reflecting a radar pulse in any direction but the one from which it came. Separate the transmitter and receiver and you have break that.
In 1886, the French invented smokeless powder and designed the Lebel cartridge/rifle. It was in every way far superior to the 71/84 Mauser.
In 1888 the German rifle commission designed the Gewehr 1888. A rifle that was in every way superior to the French Lebel.
My point is that military technology can change suddenly and inventory must be replaced immediately, no matter how new it is or expensive it was.
I thought the word was the Serbs got the F-117 by diddling the range or velocity gate settings beyond the factory standard to enable detection. That and knowing where to look.
Imaging the cost and effort to upgrade the radar systems for the entire 12,500 mile Russian border. China's is larger. Who else is going to "stealth proof" their airspace? Iran? North Korea?
“Perhaps most importantly, Moore’s Law—the idea that computing power doubles every two years or so—has never been repealed, so to speak.”
Dear dumb-ox. That is not what “Moore’s Law” says. Moore said that doubling the number of semicondutors on a ‘chip’ would be doubled every two years. That does not necessarily equate to ‘computing power doubles’. But you are correct. Thus far “Moore’s Law” has not been repealed.
I don’t keep up with this stuff anymore.
what happened to the idea of ?...
‘optical/infrared detectors and rangefinders’, netted with...
multiple radar receivers in diverse locations...
all tied together with computers?
Dennard Scaling ended with the silicon generation that began in 2005. Moore's Law hasn't been repealed yet, but it will come up against thew limits of physics by around the end of this decade.
The Designer Of The F-16 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is.
Pretty alarming interview from a guy who certainly knows what he’s talking about.
http://digg.com/video/the-designer-of-the-f-15-explains-just-how-inanely-stupid-the-f-35-is
Send in hundreds of missiles in first to take out the radars. Keep drones flying overhead to detect any other radars switching on. Send more missiles their way.