>thirdie tries to criticize stealth>does not mention sides and rear RCS being 10-100x worse than the front>does not mention AESA and fancier radar>does not mention X L radar band merging>doesnt talk about EW working against stealth aircraft regardless
>>65246285You left out 6th gen thermal management.
>>65246285Stealth is a competition between aircraft design and materials vs radar beam emmiter, receiver and crucially in this era, data processing. Radar are still detecting stealth fighters but the radar computer can't differentiate the signal over the background noise. The solution is smarter computers and today, that is AI. If I am a chink or monkeystan radar researcher, I would build bodykits that look exactly like the F-35 for example, and fit it on my Flankers. Performance doesn't matter. Only the geometry and skin materials. I would then fly it for my best radar to scan it and feed the data into the AI model. After enough training, the AI can start to ID the weak signals.
