Jessmo23, please, don’t be ridicolous:the only plane with rear aspect stealth is the F-22 i.e.
something that was absolutely dedicated to A2A or better air dominance missions.
Planes performing deep strike mission, beginning from the F-35 doesn’t have it as they doesn’t really need it so much as in such type of missions they usually come inside straight, drop load and turn away immediately: reduction of AD missile range due to passage to tail on engagement is superior to the gain they radar get for the loss of stealth.
Maybe it would instead be of some utility in CAS mission instead, as in this case the plane loiter at lower quote and velocity so it can expose its own rear aspect while vulnerable, but they are not mission PAK-FA would perform anyway.
For the rest, please again,almost read all my post, not just the last line: seems me you have lost all the part about the SU-30 and -34 integral EW suite and so on.
The part about T-50 having the possibility to carry ARM in their inner bays wasinstead just a reminder about the fact that F-35 just can’t do the same, almost not until a different ARM would be developed from scratch.
Either in case of US or better of USN the HARM alone is not the actual solution on itself: it is just a part of the package of the Growler together with a built-in ESM and dedicated jamming pods so to join the three in just one package what it was previously done by Prowlers and Wild Weasels.
Su-34 would perform the same in VVS ranks with a possible advantage given by their greater dimensions that would probably allow, not 100% sure, to fit the full package on a standard version instead than on a dedicated one.
B-2 all aspect stealth
F-35 all aspect stealth ( lol the tail feathers and even the spray bars use stealth techniques.
F-22 all aspect spray bars are hidden
Nozzles use lo shaping.
Even the F-117 was stealthy from behind.
Im simply pointing out.that if massing cruise missiles behind sams, will keep the U.S. at bay what about Russia?
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