No, I am pretty sure it is possible to make a data link with radio waves which cannot be jammed, using the method I described previously.

The biggest problem with my idea is finding where a stealth target is in the first place. But IF you can get the missile close enough to the target for camera to see the target, or the computer to construct an image from the targets IR rays if this is better, then it is toast.

The comm links would have to be radio waves. There are always radio waves all over the place, so the enemy is not going to notice that. Even if the enemy knows to look for radio waves, how is he going to distinguish the radio transmissions guiding the missile from radio transmissions for the local radio and tv stations?

As for SEAD, yes you are transmitting and radio waves can potentially be traced to their source of transmission. But this is easily overcome, for example by transmitting from a moving van, or better yet by transmitting on a rotating frequency (both the transmitter/receiver on the ground and the transmitter/receiver on the missile switch frequencies in a pre-determined order at pre-determined intervals, say every 5 seconds).

Secondly, the transmitter doesn’t necessarily have to be located near the guy on the ground, it can be kilometers away from him, and if the transmitter is destroyed, no big deal, he just presses a button to switch to another one. Radio transmitters/receivers are so cheap that you can distribute thousands of them across the ground. This will even allow the missile to still maintain contact if it gets out of range of the original transmitter. Kind of like cell phone roaming, if you move out of range of the nearest cell phone tower, you are automatically connected to the cell phone tower that is currently closest to you.

I suppose the enemy could try to jam ALL possible radio frequencies, but this requires him to get a radio jammer close enough to jam the frequencies and keep it there preventing it from being destroyed. Besides, it is possible to filter through jamming to still get a clear transmission. For example, the transmitter and receiver can both be programmed so that every legitimate sequence of transmissions will be preceded by a certain “key”, and everything else is most likely background noise or malicious jamming, and ignored. This is the theory used behind some computer network encryption. And doesn’t the army use some kind of secure unjammable radios? This is probably how they work.

I agree that a person would not be able to hit a small maneuverable target at high closing speeds most of the time. But a person should still be able to hit or at least get very close to slower less maneuverable targets like B-2’s, which are the most important targets anyways.

Even if the person can bring down a target only a quarter of the time, that is still better than any air defence system has ever managed before (ie Vietnam, and not to even mention Iraq and Kosovo).

Clouds are only a problem at low altititude, so they don’t even factor into this equation.

Although TV guidance works only at night, correct me if I’m wrong but with today’s computers an image can be constructed using its IR rays and then displayed onto a screen in real time (this is how thermal viewers work, is it not?), this should allow the person to clearly see the target at night or through light fog.

Pictures of Arrow prototypes.