It does not necessarily has to. As soon as almost every design will incorporate reduced frontal aspect RCS, soon there might be a problem to detect anything beyond visual range.

Radar guided fire-and-forget AAMs might be well-suited against legacy fighters but I would expect return of the IR guided missiles as the most important assett in airforce inventory. Time will tell.

Everybody will avoid WVR combat in the future, because the new ultra giale off.boresight IR missiles with HMCS and lock-on-after-akunch capability makes this arena so deadly, that the risk is huge for every plane.With sensor fusion and data.linking stealth or should I say a reduced RCS becomes less interesting, especially as a fighter rarely is able to keep the nose cold, when not supported by a fully networked support system that shares sensor data.

Then again the F-4D was a bomb truck in Iranian service. So again not fighter vs. fighter is the real sense.

I can only imagine it happend after you took the pic from our database. The file in the queue looks like the upper one.

Radars how boring. Radars are so ld fashioned in todays world off air combat. The key to success lays with datalinks and information superiority. Now if you can launch an AMRAAM without turning on your radar just using data recieved from other platforms, then we are talking, if can do this while flying a stealthy jet that is practicaly undetectable for the enemy, we are talking superiority.

Some of mine

Nice ones Peter. Too bad I missed the Eurofly.

nice old DC-10

And are you going on sunday Peter ?