The U.S. Military and our Aerospace industry have known about stealth technology at least twenty years before the rest of the world learned about it during Gulf War One.
I’m sure that during that time they were ready planning on ways to detect and defeat the stealth capabilities of other country’s.
Just sounds like unreasonable panic to me or the need to gin up funding for another black project.
“The U.S. Military and our Aerospace industry have known about stealth technology “
Truth be told, the Russians wrote the book, literally in 1964, that we used to create our first stealth projects. Our aircraft designers thought the calculations the Russians provided were way off, but it turned out they were dead on.
Politics kept the Soviets from using their own math to produce stealth aircraft. Once they discovered we were producing stealth it took them a few years to understand we were using their book, which they then used to predict our stealth outcomes.