[ju-st]

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That being said, Russia, China and others are developing advanced UHF and VHF band early warning radars that use even longer wavelengths in an effort to cue their other sensors and give their fighters some idea of where an adversary stealth aircraft might be coming from. But the problem with VHF and UHF band radars is that with long wavelengths come large radar resolution cells. That means that contacts are not tracked with the required level of fidelity to guide a weapon onto a target.

As one U.S. Navy officer rhetorically asked, “Does the mission require a cloaking device or is it OK if the threat sees it but can’t do anything about it?”

http://warisboring.com/articles/how-to-detect-a-stealth-figh...

[creshal]

> As one U.S. Navy officer rhetorically asked, “Does the mission require a cloaking device or is it OK if the threat sees it but can’t do anything about it?”

Depends on the mission. And if full stealth is not necessary after all, why have such an expensive stealth system in the first place?

[Someone1234]

How did you go from "can't do anything about it" to "not necessary after all?" The stealth is what makes the aircraft harder to shoot down, that is what makes it "necessary."