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[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

No, my assertion is that airspace is very dynamic battlefield.

Just because you can track a possible stealth aircraft several hundred nautical miles off you're coast, does not guarantee your ability to intercept it with aircraft before it drops it's payload, or that your SAM sites will be able to get a missile targeting lock.

It's just a first step.

[–] naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And this is also true of conventional jet intercepts. Point being, the problem of stealth is basically no longer a problem.

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

Interceptors haven't been a thing since the cold war. BVR engagements have been the air to air norm for many years, and that requires a weapons grade targeting lock.