• Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    CIWS seems to work great on low and slow stuff like mortar rounds and various cheap rockets but that's a very different thing from stopping hypersonic missiles that can maneuver right up until impact.

    If it turns out that th F-35 isn't invisible to the radar wavelengths used by our designated enemies i will give up and admit we're living in a Peter Sellers dark comedy.

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Didn't China and Russia both design their most recent radar systems specifically around avoiding using the wavelengths that stealth planes operate within?

      • Dull_Juice [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I know Russia and China have been working on it, and in an article I found on the Venezuelan thing I saw this comment:

        F-22 can be detected by advanced radar systems, particularly those with long wavelengths, meaning it is far from unthinkable that the JY-27 did so

    • Dull_Juice [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Apparently it was the F-22 actually, which is apparently supposed to be stealthier than the F-35.

    • a_party_german [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      If it turns out that th F-35 isn’t invisible to the radar wavelengths used by our designated enemies i will give up and admit we’re living in a Peter Sellers dark comedy.

      Funny how you correctly diagnose all the insanities of American propaganda in your posts above and then imply that the F-35 will be "invisible" in any way. At best, it's "low-ovservable" in a few scenarios and wavelengths, like when going up against 70s radar technology, but of course that such a rare scenario these days and the F-35 is just such a piece of dog shit in general that I wouldn't really quote any favorable quality of this MIC abomination.

      But yeah, I liked your comment about American SPAAG - makes me want to read up the insane testing antics they employed with the Sergeant York SPAAG (M247 I believe?)