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by chipsa 2170 days ago
> A stealth fighter using its radar is the same as a man in a camouflage at night turning on his search light. Everybody will know where you are.

Every American stealth aircraft equipped with a radar is designed to be able to use it. There's various tricks involved, which all amount to driving the signal of radar below the noise floor for the adversary, while still being able to have the radar pick out the signal return (which is possible because the radar know what signal was sent out in the first place).