Who needs stealth when you have the turn radius of a nickel.
Who needs stealth when you have the turn radius of a nickel.
Just in case the plane is not recognized immediatly, it's the PW-MK.I from Project Wingman, cool video game, I recommend it for the planes, the music and the memes.
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puts credible defense hat on
But you know, stealth isn’t the be-all, end-all, really. The Navy’s been dragging their feet on 35 procurement for a while, more heavily emphasizing Rhinos and Growlers. Growlers have an absolutely silly amount of extremely advanced ECM and EW hardware onboard. The general doctrine for USN in peer conflicts right now is to just jam the absolute shit out out anything that’s making unfriendly electronic noises around it and then kill the things with prejudice. Don’t need stealth when you just straight up blind the enemy. Definitely more of a brute force approach, but it’s absolutely valid.
Problem is that makes the growler a huge target. It can't really hide when it's emitting so much. It can be somewhat further back, but it'll still need to be pretty close to the action to be effective jamming.
Exactly. The growler is great when it's emitters outrange the enemy missiles, not so much when they don't.
Now granted, I dont think I'm smarter than the entire US Navy, so they probably thought of this too, but it seems like a big issue to me.
It can hide among decoy drones.
The decoy drones would need to be emitting too, or it'd need to stop emitting for a while once the missile gets close. But that is a pretty good idea.
ADM-160 MALD does serve that purpose and has been in service for a bit.
Putting on my brewing hat
Growlers are pretty good. Drunk in one bottle