"Henry J. Cobb" wrote in message
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"muskau" wrote in message
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And if these newer aircraft with their current 'stealth' ability become
compromised, I assume importance would go to who sees who first and how
good
long range missile technology has become? If that happens, then which
recent
aircraft has the advantage?

Since the Air Force has never put their stealth aircraft into harm's
way without jamming I would think they agree that stealth alone has
never been 100 percent effective.

Never? Not sure about that--ISTR that some of the B-2 missions have been
conducted without jamming support.


So they're 100 percent dependent on the Marines.

Uhmmm...only so far. We still have jamming pods for tactical aircraft...and
remember that the USAF contributes crewmen to those EA-6 units (they are the
closest thing to joint units you can find at the tactical level, with the
exception of maybe the E-8 JSTARS crews). And there are other aspects to ECM
as well; i.e., jamming the enemy communications is still primarily a USAF
role, IIRC.

Brooks


Which is why Boing just got the contract to develop the Growler.

-HJC