On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 09:16:05 +0100, Paul J. Adam wrote:
In message , John Keeney
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"John Cook" wrote in message
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In short stealth is nice but lots of other factors come into play, eg
Aircraft A is 100% invisible, but aircraft B has a 100% effective
defensive decoy system.

Who wins??

The stealth plane, because he's got a cannon and you can't
decoy ballastic rounds. ;-)

Don't decoy the round, screw with the sight: that cannon is aimed by a
predictor system that needs target range and velocity data. Not hard at
all to have the gunsight generate the wrong pointing data.

Very, very difficult, assuming it's a passive sensor. A visual or IR
sensor can see the target -- a decoy would have to be the same size
and shape to work, at the rangres we're talking about. And the sight
could use a rangefinder to measure distance (e.g. 2 sights, one at
the ewnd of each wing, giving the parallax). This would be very
difficult to spoof.

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