Lasers are a big trouble..the only energy efficient ones works at IR wavelenght, without a big mirror your output power is relative low..thats why a system must spend some time shooting over the target until the laser do the job, time that is precious in the tactical rol, especially against high speed targets

chemical ones must be recharged, you only have some shots to spend until you run out of chemicals

better idea would be an 747 filled with s-300…

guess this billionarie project will end in advances in the complex science of how to cut cheese….

this thread should be closed…but still is funny to see how some threads are degradated…..

really ..how many Rustam drawns have beed published?..ok that might be because many configurations were studied, but this guy can be trusted?, thats because, just a few pages back ppl were talking about a f-23…now is looking like the 144 -or1.42..whatever, im not good remembering these details-

Dork Dork Dork..so whats up?? patriot works with passive guidance with that 4-6 ghz radar, that is without IR missile or active homming -the last was a late upgrade-

the example i gave u about the Arrow -with 1 Ghz radar- was to put you clear that such “OMG impossible to know where is with search radar” that is so popular now, isnt true, Arrow was designed to down planes and misssiles -but of course with such costs and size it pramery mission are ballistics-, and about presicion knowledge of the target -that is what we are talking about- ABM is a lot lot lot more demanding than SAMs, and that the combo of active head + search radar works

thats was how the f-117 was downed, and works fine, is just too easy to understand…wasnt that the plane flew the same route, or that evil french spy…

“because longer range for the tracking and guidance phases was more important than ranging precision for this application”

man actually all is about that, of course a 1 Ghz wont have the precision of an 10 Ghz stuff, but again the presicion is done by the missile head

wow dork u really have lot of free time to make such huge post…..

“With the right tactics a 1960s SAM can bring down a state of the art stealth bomber.”

search radar + IR/active radar head….job done

“The B-2 would actually have been the current state of the art at the time, then.”

yeah….designing a facetade stuff of such size…dont ask for miracles

well is hard the temptation

you are in a boring patrol, when a carrier is on sight, what you gonna do??, of course direct ur bear to the ship!!

and later watch the news of a bunch of paranoids…and read the sferrin yelling on the keypublishing forum

of course they know the faceting concept, but not as advanced like lokheed, the XST drawns have no way near faceting than the f-117

so the gave up, one thing are the blueprints..and other is to make ti fly, even lockheed team did modifications to have blue, sacrificing stealthness to make the plane more stable, the northrop problems were clear when you see the complete verticals fins on them original design

“If you would stand too close the hair would stand up”

composites materials get ionazed easely, also the ferropaint do that,and actually a boeing 747 after landing, when isnt well grounded -which is dangerous-…. but you need a high dense ionized gas arround -plasma.. i hate that word, sometimes is taken in so lighty way..- to get absorcion/refraxion effect -much like the ionosphere-, something that seems not practical because it get difussed by the plane movement

im still waiting something official about the russian plasma stealth, that seems like a practical failure