I recall when the F-117 came to Jax NAS for display. I had a camera with an auto zoom feature. I tried to take a picture of the plane but the camera wouldn't lock on.
I thought that was kinda cool.
Can stealth be defeated? I'm sure there are countermeasures, but it makes the enemy work to defend against the threat.
In war there is always a counter weapon around. Let's just hope we have the upper hand.
I’m not saying the initial attack would, or wouldn’t work, but what would the response be?
I’ve been right up, as close as Security Forces allowed, to a F-117 as well.
They are cool. I was surprised by the size of the B-1.
I also keep in mind that it is not just the capability of a given weapon system.
It is the national will to use it as needed, and the training of the personnel who must employ them.
Iraq had a pretty darn good arsenal. Not as good as ours, but pretty good. But is there any doubt that, if they had Israeli military personnel manning that same weaponry in Iraq, that our invasion would have been far more difficult and costly than it was?
The fly in that ointment is...I don’t believe our military is trained as well as they need to be. In the US Navy, when two top end destroyers end up running into cargo ships, and a fire reduces an LPH to a iron shell good only for scrapping, there is something seriously wrong.
And this is just the Navy. The Air Force, Army, and even the Marines are more focused on woke policies than they are on training people to employ doctrine and weapons systems effectively.
I think the first time we go head-to-head with a peer in a contested battle space, we could get our clock cleaned.
And I think that is what the political leadership today wants.