Why Russian radars see stealth aircraft




Invisible aircraft does not happen. Built on stealth technology fighters and bombers with bizarre and irrelevant characteristics enormous cost still find Russian radars and Russian missile shot down. We found out why.

World famous stealth technology has brought "Operation Desert Storm". Six weeks in a row, American F-117 gunships bombed Baghdad. Every night, U.S. Air Force planes smoothly overcome all boundaries Iraqi air defenses, hit targets set and returned to base unharmed. It looked that speak effectively and allowed the U.S. Air Force Deputy Commander John Welch proudly noted: "Technology" stealth "brought us back to the fundamental principle of war, which is called a surprise."

For some time the F-117 was the least popular American brand than "Cadillac" or "Coca-Cola". Do not forget that any war is a powerful advertisement for used in her arms. If it lives up to expectations.

Price stealth

Experts do not use in the application of stealth technology to the word "stealth". Make an invisible plane or missile modern means impossible. You can reduce their visibility, and then only in the field of view of the radar. This Achilles heel first stealth aircraft: they are visible to the naked eye operator portable air defense missile system short range. And see his rocket with television homing. In modern MANPADS used a combined method of targeting: optical, infrared (heat on the track), the laser - and stealth technology will not help here. Another thing is that it is desirable to shoot down enemy aircraft on the distant approaches, rather than when they fly overhead.

For the purposes of early warning radars exist. If you do not take into account the missile defense system, the average military radar sees plane for 300 kilometers. Stealth technology can reduce this distance - but at what cost ...

To scatter radar beam plane make angular, consisting of flat faces. This design is called the facet. Where possible, replace the metal carbon. Where you can not cover it-absorbing materials. To hide from radar compressors engines - one of the most notable metal parts on the plane - before them establish special diffusers, extinguishing radar signal.

Flat nozzles create a torch that reduces visibility in the infrared. For the greater masking the jet was added to cold air intakes. Traditional tail replaces V-shaped "butterfly", less visible to radar. Even the back seat drivers in stealth aircraft made corrugated to dissipate radar radiation.

The result is a plane with unimportant combat characteristics. He can not carry a lot of weapons, as all it is hidden in the fuselage, external suspension unmask! It is limited by the speed and range. Finally, he is forced to use great caution radar or even does not have it. Since radiation radar provides the most invisible plane as clearly as a flashlight - the robber in a dark house.

There are two drawbacks. Stealth aircraft are very expensive. American bomber B-2 Spirit is the most expensive aircraft in history, the cost of a single instance of more than 1.5 billion dollars. And despite all the tricks, they are still churning.



Get invisibility

March 27, 1999 during the war in Yugoslavia stealth aircraft F-117 Night Hawk was shot down by USAF old anti-aircraft missile system, the P-125 "Pechora". The first rocket 5V27D issued on behalf of the Kirov factory XX Party Congress in 1976, tore the American fighter wing, the second hit the fuselage. Pilot Dale Zelko ejected, hid in the woods and a few hours later he was evacuated by helicopter American commandos.

- March 24 we left the military unit and moved to a suburb of Belgrade, near the village of Shimanovtsy - said the commander of calculating P-125 Dragan Matic. -Three days passed relatively quietly, working on teams, the usual procedure. The main objective was not to get AWACS radar accompanying NATO aircraft. Evening of March 27 our whole team was on duty. Colleague from the tracking service reported severe interference in the air - the source of interference moving in our direction. Five minutes later radioprospecting gave that to our calculation approaching target. I looked at the monitor and saw it was a clear signal. Reported to the commander that the goal is fixed, we are ready to defeat. 17 seconds after the command "Fire" was shot down by our missiles.

Shoot, gunners immediately left the position.

- The faster peredislotsirueshsya, the more chances calculation stay alive. For the three months of aggression, we changed position 24 times. Behind us AWACS and U.S. satellites. 20 seconds in the air or on the enemy's radar - and you'll have, you're already dead. Fly "Tomahawk" or powerful bomb - continued Matic. - We shot and left in silence - it saved our team. No one was hurt, although in my defense team nine people died.

Serbian rocketeer said his calculation also hit the F-16 stealth bomber and B-2. But these aircraft lasted up to their airfields, so there's no proof. A downed F-117 Americans a long time called "missing", and then asked to return. Serbs naturally now-abandoned cabin "stealth" adorns the Museum of Aviation in Belgrade.



Author Alexander Yuriev
Originator http://www.rg.ru/2014/06/08/stels-site.html
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