plawolf
Lieutenant General
Re: New Generation Fighter
Yes, all correct and all very basic stuff, but none of it addresses my question of why do you think stealth aircraft cannot engage in SEAD missions in its entirety (with the right weapons load of course).
Do you even understand how stealth fighters work? Doesn't seem like if from your post. 'Fly under stealth to a specific location'? What is that supposed to mean? This is not Star Trek where you say 'its a good day to die' and actually have to switch on a cloaking device you know. Your fighter is stealthy no matter where you fly it.
Also, do you understand why current SEAD/DEAD aircraft NEED support from dedicated jamming aircraft support now, and how that requirement for dedicated jamming aircraft could easily be completely eliminated with stealth?
I'll grant that the J-20 can perform SEAD under certain circumstances. In situations where a static target is being defended and the SAM batteries are immobile, SEAD can be performed without being lit up by enemy radars. In this case you just go over there and bomb a fixed location. This type of attack actually blurs the line between SEAD and Strike. Classic SEAD as performed by tag-teaming wild weasel and jammer aircraft is done versus mobile SAM units where you don't know their location and thus cannot fly under stealth to a specific location and take it out with a JDAM. The wild weasel serves as bait while trolling around in enemy airspace, when an enemy radar lights it up, the EA-6B trailing behind blasts noise, the weasel destroys the radar with a HARM or JSOW, next target.
Yes, all correct and all very basic stuff, but none of it addresses my question of why do you think stealth aircraft cannot engage in SEAD missions in its entirety (with the right weapons load of course).
Do you even understand how stealth fighters work? Doesn't seem like if from your post. 'Fly under stealth to a specific location'? What is that supposed to mean? This is not Star Trek where you say 'its a good day to die' and actually have to switch on a cloaking device you know. Your fighter is stealthy no matter where you fly it.
Also, do you understand why current SEAD/DEAD aircraft NEED support from dedicated jamming aircraft support now, and how that requirement for dedicated jamming aircraft could easily be completely eliminated with stealth?