On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 06:13:57 GMT, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:

During Balkan conflict no US aircraft,stealth or not,flew without
Jammer support.


Nope. Sending jammers along with stealth aircraft would be
counterproductive. The jammers would be a signal that an attack is
imminent.

LOL. And what exactly does that do for them? Without jamming they
can track and shoot down stealth aircraft that get close enough to a
radar. When you are getting that close you start jamming otherwise
they are going to see you and blow you out of the sky. See below.

Two f117 were hit ,one lost,the other safely returned,both because of
jammer
failures.


Nope.

March 29, 1999 8:38, the stealth F-117 bomber, flown by Capt Dale
Zelco, was shoot down near the village Budjanovci, 64 km from
Belgrade. They broadcast footage of the wreckage on TV. The USAF
attributed the shootdown to three factors. 1) Yugoslav defenses
adpating to the airstrikes and finding ways to work around their
limitations. 2) US forces got too predictable in their routing and
multiple SAM units were moved into the path of the F-117 and brought
it down with a salvo of missiles. 3) EA-6B jamming aircraft assigned
to protect the F-117 was too distant to provide effective jamming. As
a result the F-117 was more visible to radar than usual. (source: Air
Forces Monthly, No.138 September 1999)

Read #3 as many times as it takes to sink in.

April 30 1999 An F-117A of the 49th FW was damaged during strike
mission by a nearby explosion of an SA-3 SAM, "...causing loss of part
of the tail section, but the aircraft was able to return safely to
Spangdahlem air base, Germany." (source: Air Forces Monthly, July
1999, p. 75)

Your repeated denial of reality is noted.

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