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Re:China and Russia can detect F-35 (and B-2) using VHF radar by burnt-resistor on Friday November 21, 2025 @07:32PM (#46010821)
Putting words in the mouths of others is a perilous and arrogant habit.

At a lot has changed post P-18 Serbia. VHF and high power L-band ground search and also guidance radar tech of RU and CN are the real threats and they aren't being adequately addressed in either SEAD or first-strike capabilities.

F-117A has a tiny payload and relatively large RCS in VHF. The B-2 RAM can't handle moisture and overall isn't easily upgraded. F-22 doesn't meet RCS RFP requirements in any abeam aspect in any band, only frontal; it has 90's avionics; it's hard to make more of them; and LO maintainers at Tyndall are constantly busy repairing crumbling RAM. LRS-B isn't really IOC, Super Raptor is still fragmented and experimental, and "F-47" is still complete vaporware. Fat Amy isn't as good as the West believes it is against modern, real ground-based search and guidance radar tech of RU and CN.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/radar-r... https://archive.ph/f0fxZ

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/radar.ht... https://archive.ph/wMhDf

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Re:China and Russia can detect F-35 (and B-2) using VHF radar by hollerith on Sunday November 23, 2025 @12:28PM (#46025363)
RAM == radar absorbent material

LO == low observability

Tyndall Air Force Base is in Florida.

LRS-B == the Long Range Strike-Bomber program, i.e., the B-21 Raider

IOC == initial operational capability

Fat Amy == the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter

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