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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: John Galt on October 02, 2019, 09:06:42 AM

Title: F-35 is only stealthy around AT&T and Comcast.
Post by: John Galt on October 02, 2019, 09:06:42 AM

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a29307410/radar-tracking-f-35/

Title: Re: F-35 is only stealthy around AT&T and Comcast.
Post by: mikeWe9a on October 07, 2019, 12:09:10 PM

There have been similar claims regarding detecting stealth aircraft since about the day that the existence of the F-117 was officially announced.  I specifically remember such claims regarding Russian systems back when USENET was a thing...  I am only mildly surprised that they can look at the data in an area where they already know that an aircraft was located and say "See, there it is!"  I would be shocked if they were able to actually track such an aircraft (or even a non-stealth aircraft) that they didn't know about in advance, or in anything resembling real time.

Mike

Title: Re: F-35 is only stealthy around AT&T and Comcast.
Post by: FLS on October 07, 2019, 08:24:37 PM

From what I've read they can detect but not lock and track so it's not considered a problem.