why bothered designing all those previous stealth aircraft, f-117, b-2, ATA, f-22. All intended to fly during war time over USSR head.If your logic followed, the US military would have withdrawn from making these aircraft in the first place, since sooner or later, its stealth will not be as effective. How does the navalized f-22 intercepting incoming Soviet bombers scenario any different from the f-22 flying over alaska or northern europe intercepting russian aircraft (bases ATF was designed to operate)? Why bother making f-22 in the first place then?
donnage99 it is possible who i don't explain myself well, because the sense of my previous post is not
simple...... it is even obvious!
The difference between war’s operations dynamics and “peace time” one ,are the difference from day to night!
Pratically all parameters ,from times ,to order of distances involved between assets of the oppopsite sides, from modality of development of the single engagement to number,variety and interaction-suppression of the systems in play, from purpouse of the strategic deployment and tactical manoeuvres,to attrition’s impact, contribute to render an adaptative, “incremental”,proactive research’s process like that by me,previously described, absolutely impossible to realize in war’times.
When a russian bomber with 3 escort aircraft, turn around you,at less than 18 km,for most than 20 minutes (like in 29 February "scramble")in peace times you cannot down it, rather,some times, you must also escort them outside your competence zone for another 10-15 minutes! In peace times this bomber return to base,give the data collected,in 2 months a improved wave or OLS is developed,the necessary modify maked and a new "try" is prepared...at each of this common,usually harmless situation,a incremental fraction of one of your more crucial secret get lost for ever.
The same motivation of the"classification" systems(and ,in particular that related to this specific field) is exactly that;in fact, when ,in a hypothetical war’s scenario,the enemy come in contact with its “functioning” it can do nothing (or very,very little) to contingently capitalize this knowledge.
I give you an example: when a Air Force take part to a exercitation with a “not alligned” foreign aeronautics( like Red Flag ) all aircraft keep its radar frequency and data link connections jealously hiddens (nearly always turned off or in “training”mode),this custom has exactly the aim to preserve the reliability and efficacy of this vital systems in a hypothetical war scenario against this same opponent, unfortunately you can “turn out” RAM or “stealth”- shape airframes- and this is the true reason for which F-22 has never taked part to this type of exercitations (not even with its most trustworty allies and that element,synergycly ,reinforce my previous hypothesis).
Like a “aimed” jamming pod for a “compromised” enemy’s radar or missile’s seekers can degrade it until to uselessness, a “aimed” complex radar wave (also in the bands against which this particular “stealth” design is optimized!),can litterally increase of various hundreds of times the Pr(Power returned)of a VLO aircraft neutralizing so, effectively, its operative effectiveness.
Last note: donnage ,you are a very intelligent person,don’t let yourself to be tempted from a easy(but absolutely incorrect) mind’s associations ; among the platforms cited by you ,only B-2 and ,before it,also F-117(at least in the initial,incorrect, plans of its makers)was designed to try to penetrate and attack in URSS air space, the reason is who a fighter-size VLO aircraft chance of surviving in a overlapping, exstensive VHS radar covered airspace is proximum to 0(i remind who are russian scientists who have developed phisics theoretical models of radar diffraction designs and know perfectly the faculties of long radar waves against smaller discontinuities segments of fighter-size airframes).
I remind also to you who we don’t talk of Iraq or Serbia ,the high altitude iraqi defense in 1990,comprised five battery of export [downgraded] version of SA-5 [1962],in the same year in URSS was present about 56 battallion of S-300 and 34 of S-300V!! –also now considered absolutely deadly for legacy fighters and bombers!!-, instead of export version of SA-6[1970, 11,5 Km altitude of engagement,1 target at the time only] URSS had BUK-M1[22 km altitude,6 targets at the same time] !! instead of SA-8 [1971]litterally thousands of TOR M1 and 9K22 Tungusta!! instead of SA-7[1968] , 9k38 IGLA!! and we are talking of the same year and only of SAM (this reasoning exclude hundreds of MIG-31, hundreds of SU-27,hundreds of MIG 29M and icomparable radars and C3 etc..). But for this inexplicable,but very common misconception,i will open another thread. Best regards.