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Isn't stealth pretty much defeated for the last 40 years? I recall reading that Soviet ground radars were perfectly capable of detecting US stealth planes, as well as there being a crash of a stealth plane which was then recovered by the enemies of US.


Stealth is not a boolean property. What you can do on the ground with giant arrays of huge antennas and/or supercomputers is way ahead of what can be done in a fighter plane, and that is way ahead of what can be done in the seeker of a small-diameter missile.


True, although today all three often constantly talk to one another.


I think there's only been one stealth aircraft detected and shot down in history and that was because they got a fix on it when the bomb doors were open rendering it non stealthy. Stealth isn't perfect but it makes hitting the things pretty hard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_F-117A_shootdown


And that stealth drone that was captured by the Iranians..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...




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