Allow me to reply for dicross
1. Unless you are at lower altitude than the VLO plane, you can’t even look inside the opening weapon bay of adversary VLO fighter, trigonometry and all that, if your aircraft is at higher altitude, the view to the bay will be blocked by VLO fighter’s airframe, at the same altitude the radar flare is negligible because the bay door’s edge are designed to deflect radar wave in others direction rather than directly back. The weapon bay opening only for a few seconds, thus, even if you can launch missiles reacting to VLO plane, after a few seconds, your radar loses track and you can’t guide missiles to target.
2. ECCM exist on both side, but not to the same level of effectiveness, VLO airplane will always have a significant advantage
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Radar burn-through is massive lopsided in the favor of the plane with lower radar cross-section.
4. In terms of intercepted energy, it favors RWR over the radar, but in terms of available information, radars are far better because other than the direction of threats, they can also provide vital information such as distance to target, target velocity, heading, and radar are better overall for NCTR.
Besides, a fighter with its radar offline is effectively invisible to adversary RWR and radar information can be transferred through data link, so you know what this means:
If you have a squadron of 10 non-VLO plane versus a squadron of 10 VLO planes, the VLO squadron can know the location of all non-VLO planes, whereas the non-VLO squadron only know the location of 1-2 VLO fighters who are emitting
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where did you find that fancy illustration of RCS (guesg it’s born in a basement?)
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