...and while that might have been so, there were about a hundred times
as many sorties where the Iraqis didn't know they were in trouble until
the bombs started to hit.


I think you will have to revise your claim significantly downward after reading
Air Forces own intelligence reports.

Jammers are what you use *after* they get a lock on you. Firing up
active countermeasures when there's no radar pointed at you is like
lighting a match in a dark room. Stealth planes use jammers as a last
resort, when they've been actively painted by a radar.

Not neccesarly,you can try to blind hostile radars or try to inject false data
even before an attack starts,if your artillery or special forces could destroy
them before attack even better.(I think that was the defining moment of DS
I,but we love to forget it)

Well, *you* claim they can, but so far, nobody has actually demonstrated
this. It ranks right up with some of the silliest claims by Soviet
techs back in the Cold War.

For a demonstration you need the support of Air Force,only official operator of
airborne stealth platforms and they are of course not very supportive.
To make things even more complicated,the corporate entity that devoloped US
counter LO system is also producer of major US stealth platforms.
So such a competition is harmful for corporate profits,if multistatic wins the
corporation will probably lose stealth business,if stealth wins company will
lose a next generation product and its projected sales.
So,smart corporate strategy seems to be "keep a low profile in multi statics
till all projected stealth sales realized,then start high profile multistatics
campaign".

This a result of defense industry consolidations in 90s.



..and also pretty much theoretical, like those multistatics you keep
hoping someone will build.

Unlike multistatics,they are still experimental.
In multistatics issue there is nothing experimantal they are here.Only to the
point where you can look at a plane and see where it's
biggest returns will be, it doesn't give you a magical key to let you
detect it. Radars have had fifteen years to develop to the point where
they could reliably track stealth planes, and they still *can't*, at
anything other than point-blank

Either you mean only backscatterer type radars when you use the term "radar" or
you call 600 miles "point blank" distance.
Yeah, the new multistatics and ultra wideband radars can't see them in
very different ways than the old radars couldn't see them.

Actually even old radars could see many things that they usually dont see only
if air defense community and radar developers stopped considering them as a
binary detection method,but its hard to change almost a hundred years old
customs overnight.