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They don't need one....frankly.Only question is what took Russia so long to develop a missile defense system?
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They don't need one....frankly.Only question is what took Russia so long to develop a missile defense system?
You don't know I guess that Russian built missiles have NEVER worked remotely as well as claimed.We saw how Patriot could prevent basic drobes of Houthi rebels from destroying Saudi oil plants... - it completely failed.
as well US hypersonic missiles tests fail one after another, what hypersonic missile does thd US has?
while Russia has hypersonic Kinzhal already, and even not hypersonic Iskander excedes everything the US has, and US LRPF missile will appear only in 2027....
perfect, just perfect, you will need them in coming civil war
Does the OP mean the Russians might finally have an outside chance of defeating Finland in a war? They've never been able to win one on their own for a long while now.
The US acknowledged the F-117 because one crashed and they couldn't hide the program anymore. Before the crash it was deep black. Even then they hid the details of the plane. I believe they even leaked false details to Tom Clancy to use in Red Storm Rising.It may not have been a "secret" anymore, but the Iraq gulf war was where the world got to really see it widespread in action well covered for the first time where the enemy was caught totally unprepared with pants down for it.
The US acknowledged the F-117 because one crashed and they couldn't hide the program anymore.
It may not have been a "secret" anymore, but the Iraq gulf war was where the world got to really see it widespread in action well covered for the first time where the enemy was caught totally unprepared with pants down for it.
Not really.
There were actually two crashes prior to it being announced publicly. The first was in July of 1986 near Bakersfield. They were already into the process of declassifying the program when a second crashed in October 1987 on Nellis AFB.. It was yet another year later that it was finally announced to the public, but it had already been in the process of declassification for 3 years prior to that. And shortly after the B-2 was also shown for the first time, as they went ahead and did the appropriate declassification for both projects at pretty much the same time.
But neither one of them was really a "secret". Most knew about both projects since the early 1980's. Although most has expected the fighter to be named the "F-19". Plus, the public knew the F-19 designation was "in use", as the YF-18 was assigned in 1974, and the YF-20 in 1980. Internally it was known as the "YF-19" during the earliest phases of design and initial production.
Ironically, the F-117 designation was both subterfuge as well as happenstance. The "F" was to throw off the Soviets in the event the program leaked more than it had, as "F" is the designation for a fighter, and the correct designation should have been "A" as this was solely a ground attack aircraft. And as all modern fighters use the "Teen Designation" scheme (F-14, A-10, etc), when using captured Soviet fighters they were always assigned "Century Designations" to throw off exactly which former Soviet fighter was which in the US inventory.
And when the plane was going through flight testing, one of the pilots announced himself as "F-117" on the radio, and it just kinda stuck. It is not really an F series fighter, and 117 fits nowhere in the structure of aircraft naming of that era.
Remember that the KGB was extremely effective in gaining intelligence on us. And they were very good at putting together bits and pieces of information from a dozen different sources to create a pretty complete picture.
Submarines from the Russians are still not as good as ours, by reports, but they have managed to track American Los Angeles class submarines. So assume they are fairly good, if not nearly as good as ours.
What's the big deal about that? The basic Los Angeles class submarine design is more than 40 years old. Call back when they manage to consistently track a Sea Wolf or Virginia class submarine.
Now people go on and on about the loss of an F-117 over Yugoslavia. People forget the details, the main reasons the F-117 was shot down was poor planning by the USAF. Even the USAF admits that. No level of technology will overcome bad decisions by the military using it.
That's what CNN is for America, don't you think?RT, "Russia Today", is a propaganda fake news site ran by Russian military intelligence.
If you read a story on RT, ask yourself how it damages America, cause that's what RT is for.
Don't forget that lesbian corporal with two moms. She's a great asset.This is America. We have civil wars here just for entertainment.
But should Russia, China, or any other low-grade shithole country decides they want to get froggy and trample out dandelions here in the US, watch how fast we come together and stomp their ass to the curb.
What war did you win other than the civil one? They say though that you don't really know now whether you won it or lost.Does the OP mean the Russians might finally have an outside chance of defeating Finland in a war? They've never been able to win one on their own for a long while now.
But yes, I do agree that many do not understand stealth at all. I am often repeating "stealth does not mean invisible". And the goal was never really to create invisible aircraft. The actual goal is to reduce the radar signature enough to protect them from acquisition from surface to air and air to air missiles. To give an arbitrary number, a SAM site needs a certain RADAR return before it can actually "lock on" and be fired at a target. And actually "seeing" stealth aircraft is no big deal, we do it all the time. But we may get a RADAR return of say 15-20%, but the system will simply not fire at anything below 80% return. And if the RADAR signal is lost as the missile is in flight, as a default mode they self-destruct.
What war did you win other than the civil one? They say though that you don't really know now whether you won it or lost.
Yes. If the smaller signature throws sensors off by just a few feet, or even a few inches, at the air speeds of the missiles and planes are moving, it's a miss.