Right, but those radars are high value targets, you want to make sure they are completely destroyed. If the SPEAR 3 misses probably the antenna would be destroyed, but maybe not the vehicle. They can change the antenna. But I agree it would already be good.
AESA , PESA radar have almost every thing inside the antenna so if you destroy it it pretty much over
solid state Pulse-Doppler radar often have low performer so no needd to worry about
A mini cruise missile like an SDB missile woud have the ability to be launched at long range and to loiter to find its target. I like that capability also to search and destroy aircraft in the open.
f-35 detection and targeting range again ground target is pretty much limited to about 80-100 km what why i dont really like long range missile ( unless you try to attack a ship )
Sending planes in non stealth mode on the initial strikes doesn’t seem to be a good idea to me.
Nap of the earth is more for anti ship mission , because ship often have really strong radar EX spy-1D , Smart-L , they also have very strong defense , not to mention modern ship even have stealth so harder to detect them from long range
SPEAR have so many different sensor making jamming them almost impossible , engine mean they are lest affected by altitude droping , one f-35 can carry 24 of them
24 stealth SPEAR will have better chance to penetrate the defense due to number alone , they will not sink the ship obviously , but if they managed to damage the Radar then it pretty much a mission kill , make the ship useless
what i think idea is SPEAR with stealth airframe but a different warhead , instead of a single warhead like now , it can have warhead that contain many flechette that it will release when going close to the target kind of like Hydra 70 or 35mm AHEAD shell , that would be impossible for CIWS to intercept , although that not sink the ship it will damage all the radar , optic equipment , destroy the skin make the ship no longer stealth , and then when the ship is defenseless a GBU-12 can sink it
If it leaves from the ramp at Edwards yes, in the 5 years I was at Edwards I never saw a X on the ramp. Plenty of Lear’s and Gulfstream’s but never a Citation. So, to get to the nearest Citation X you need to get to Mohave, or more likely Van Nuys. Either way you’ll eat up an hour or two getting to the jet. So, grabbing a Viper with two bags and stuffing the hero in the back is still viable subsonic with a refuel half way there because you cut ground travel time out. Door to door in 4 hours vice 5 or 6.
can a f-15E with 3 fuel tank + 2 CFT do that
The only air frame out at Edwards these days that can go 2000 nm and fly supersonic is the B-1. That said, the difference between a Bone flying the route at 1.2M and a Citation X at 0.94M is only about an hour. Even still, don’t think the Bone can stay supersonic for the almost 3 hours required to make the trip.
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Mach 1.25
Range: 6,478 nmi (7,456 mi (11,999 km))
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mach 0.94
Range: 3,216 nmi (3,700 mi, 5,956 km)
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Mach 2.05
Range: 12,300 km
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