Northrop Pitches Concept To Ready 16 B-2s For Stunning Attack On Iraq

Inside The Pentagon | July 25, 2002 | Elaine M. Grossman

[Lazamataz]

With the passive radio detection capability pioneered by Czechslovakia, and given to Iraq, there is no such thing as stealth any more. Therefore, let us send in ALL of our B-52s instead.

[Poohbah]

The passive detection capability requires a very active RF environment. And that just doesn't exist in Iraq thanks to UN sanctions and the US Navy's enforcement thereof.

[Blood of Tyrants]

"The passive detection capability requires a very active RF environment."

Incorrect. Television and FM and AM radio stations will work as the source for radiation. Why do you think the military took out all the TV and radio antennas in Bosnia?

[Poohbah]

It's a statistical process. The more emitters you can baseline from, the better.

And yes, we'll blast TV and radio transmitters--because they can be used for command and control functions.

[ASA Vet]

For exactly the same reason they will be taken out in Iraq.

[dead]

let us send in ALL of our B-52s instead.

They could sell tickets to that show.

[meenie]

Any aircraft that needs a controlled humidity environment in order to maintain its viability is not suitable for combat. The public and the air force got fleeced again or I might say YET.

[Dakmar]

STEALTH THREAT: Whoops! Phone signals may unmask a $40 billion flying secret.posts

[Dakmar]

Sorry about that, try Here.

[mamelukesabre]

Sh1t, send in both all the 52s and all the 2s and time it so the first bombs hit at exactly the same time that the first plane struck the WTC...9-11-02.

I want to see the destruction live on cnn, in real time.

[dighton]

Let us send in ALL of our B-52s instead. / They could sell tickets to that show.

You don't want a front-row seat.

[mamelukesabre]

That would be a humdinger.

You could be sure it would be the single most watched event in the history of mankind. Neil armstrong's walk on the moon would look like a saturday morning cartoon show in comparison.

[Young Werther]

You send in the BUFs low level. Top cover should the Iraq AF dare to come up to tussle.

Carpet bomb one Republican Guard barracks with sub munitions and leaflets. The leaflet read, "We'll give you slaughter or you give us Saddam" Remember those Gulf War pictures of the mass charges of Iraqi troops, white flags in hand?

[ASA Vet]

Thank you for using the correct one "F" version.

[Texas_Jarhead]

So then it sounds like with passive detection it's not what you see but rather what you don't see.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Correct. Passive radar looks for "holes" in the radio waves.

[Doe Eyes]

Detection is one thing. Tracking and guiding a missile to a target is another. It is very easy to hit a Buff with a radar guided missile. Very difficult to hit a low RCS platform.

[norton]

See post fifteen.

And, regarding proper finish for a combat aircraft:

"the Air Force will replace the traditional repair method using tape and caulking material with a new approach using spray-on, radar-absorbing coating..."

I think that's what they did on my neighbor's house, peeled off in about six months.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

The aircraft can be employed with less-than-perfect stealth against many adversaries and targets, this source said.

Particularly when each B-2 is accompanied by two Marine Corps or Navy EA-6Bs to jam the very radars that a B-2 is supposed to be "invisible" to and for SEAD as it flies over hostile territory.