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To: R. Scott
The claim was that they could detect it - not that they could filter it out of all the clutter.

Your saying detect without locating? Like a blind man in a warehouse hearing thunder outside, so he knows there was lightning somewhere? Possible.

I’m of the opinion that the same people who were critical of the Raptor from the beginning have changed tactics. Now they realize the can’t criticize the plane for its performance and they’re trying to convince people that it’s no better than much less expensive aircraft - because our potential enemies can see it.

Sounds right. FYI, There was a Serbian several years ago that proclaimed stealth dead by claiming that he could use cell towers to track the F-117. Now that makes sense, at least in theory, because the radar signal does reflect off the stealth aircraft and go in all directions. Thus it could be triangulated if the math was perfect, using a large array of scattered receivers. The big problem with that, is that it is the easiest type of system to spoof, as it can't filter out anything based on direction, Doppler, signal strength, etc.

46 posted on 02/21/2008 5:05:06 AM PST by SampleMan (We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
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To: SampleMan
Your saying detect without locating? Like a blind man in a warehouse hearing thunder outside, so he knows there was lightning somewhere? Possible.

China is trying to present itself to the world as a leader in the military technology field. This would fit in with their version of "creative advertising."
Maybe they have a few Madison Ave. types working with them. I'm suddenly reminded of a commercial running on TV for a new easy weight loss pill. A young woman makes the statement "And 78% of the weight loss is PURE BODY FAT!" I wonder what the other 22% is.

48 posted on 02/21/2008 2:46:19 PM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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