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In article , Henry J Cobb
wrote:

Harry Andreas wrote:
Explain please how jammers are needed to operate stealth aircraft?

https://www.aef.org/magazine/Dec2004/1204electron.asp
In fact, the prospective threat shapes up as being so great that even
stealth aircraft usually will get jamming support.

That link does not work anymore.

--
Harry Andreas
Engineering raconteur

In article , Henry J Cobb
wrote:

Harry Andreas wrote:
Explain please how jammers are needed to operate stealth aircraft?

https://www.aef.org/magazine/Dec2004/1204electron.asp
In fact, the prospective threat shapes up as being so great that even
stealth aircraft usually will get jamming support.

Your quote above (and it should have had quotation marks around it) ,
while in the article, was completely unsupported by facts, data, or analysis.

They also specifically said that jammers were not needed for stealth aircraft,
although they might be used by stealth aircraft in some cases.

Despite what they stated in that article, I wouldn't run off thinking that
stealth aircraft "need" jammers to operate, certainly not in the near or
middle future.

--
Harry Andreas
Engineering raconteur

Harry Andreas wrote:
Your quote above (and it should have had quotation marks around it) ,
while in the article, was completely unsupported by facts, data, or analysis.

They also specifically said that jammers were not needed for stealth aircraft,
although they might be used by stealth aircraft in some cases.

Despite what they stated in that article, I wouldn't run off thinking that
stealth aircraft "need" jammers to operate, certainly not in the near or
middle future.

http://www.afa.org/magazine/june2001/0601stealth.asp
A prominent criticism of both the F-117 and the B-2 in Kosovo
centered on the fact that, even though both were billed as radar
evaders, both types were supported by jamming aircraft. This was not
supposed to be necessary.

Jumper said bluntly that the F-117s and B-2s "don't need escort
jammers." However, senior USAF officials acknowledge that the stealth
aircraft certainly did coordinate missions with jamming aircraft,
particularly the EA-6Bs operated jointly by the Air Force, Navy, and
Marine Corps, to increase the safety margin when attacking tough
targets.

-HJC

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:26:34 -0700, "Joe Delphi"
wrote:


Anyone know the projected first flight date of the F/A-18G ?

I think they are hoping for August.

--Rolf