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To: Spktyr
"That's the big thing about stealth - not only is it hard for the enemy to find you in the first place, it's very hard for his self-guided munitions to track you."

That was actually true prior to the current generation of video-based targeting in air-to-air and ground-to-air missiles.

Hard to hide from a computer processing your multi-spectrum video image, though.

Likewise, if all of your airfields are being overflown by UCAV's that can stay over the target for 36 hours at a time, landings and take-offs become a bit problematic regardless of your airframe.

36 posted on 10/06/2006 9:35:45 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

From what I understand, the video-trackers still aren't reliable enough to put into production and have a nasty habit of homing back on other "friendly" aircraft.


37 posted on 10/07/2006 3:27:03 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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