Will Stealth Survive As Sensors Improve? F-35, Jammers At Stake

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Will Stealth Survive As Sensors Improve? F-35, Jammers At Stake
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Published: November 27, 2012

Is stealth still America's silver bullet? Or are potential adversaries' radars getting too smart for US aircraft to keep hiding from them?

That's literally the trillion-dollar question, because the US military is investing massively in new stealth aircraft. At stake in this debate are not just budgets but America's continued ability to project power around the world.

With the B-2 bomber, the F-22 Raptor, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and a future bomber system known as Long Range Strike, the Air Force has bet its future on an all-stealth combat fleet. After the Navy's troubled A-12 stealth plane program was cancelled in 1991, by contrast, the sea service kept buying conventional aircraft, the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.

Now the Navy is gingerly getting back in the game with its experimental X-47 UCAS attack drone and the carrier-borne version of the F-35 -- but it still harbors doubts about stealth. Meanwhile the Air Force worries its non-stealthy Navy partners will get shot down on day one of the next big war. So while the two services are ostensibly joined at the hip in an emerging combat doctrine known as AirSea Battle, they have radically different approaches to a fundamental question of how their airplanes can survive.

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2. Cell phone towers expose stealth aircraft..............

Passive radar' can spot Air Force's B-2, F-117A


By Christopher Newton
Associated Press,

WASHINGTON -- America's stealth aircraft may be in danger of having their cover blown by a new type of radar that uses cell phone technology, researchers say.

The Air Force says it's a limited problem, and America's unique stealth fleet is in no danger. Yet, U.S. intelligence reports label the radar a serious threat, and several scientists agree.

''We're talking about radar technology that can pinpoint almost any disturbance in the atmosphere,'' said Hugh Brownstone, a physicist at the Intergon Research Center who has worked for the cell phone giant Nokia.

''You might not be able to distinguish between a stealth plane and a normal one, but you might not need to. The point is, you can see the stealth plane as a blip.''

Stealth aircraft

Air Force stealth airplanes in use and development:

http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/062101/met_6492105.html


Stealth is a scam.