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Stealth has changed the way warfare is conducted allowing those with it to invade deep into another’s territory to cause extensive damage with a just a few aircraft compared what would have been needed just a couple of decades ago. But it’s not a one-way street, radar system and opponents have become much better at detecting what was once virtually undetectable. This is the story of how stealth changed modern warfare.
Written, researched and presented by Paul Shillito
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Great video
How come you do a lot of war stuff now. Not complaining but it's a little different from your earlier work.
Thank you for going into so much detail. It's one of the things that keeps me comming back.
Mr. Shillito, Could you do a video of Submarine stealth? Appreciate your content, my favourite learning channel.
stealth exists
S-400:- hold my missiles
Having only one stealth aircraft shot down in 50 years is a huge accomplishment . Just so you know that is 0.142857 % of all stealth fighters in the U.S. . That is nothing to pat anyone on the back about if you are the person that argues Serbia shot down a stealth aircraft .
Last I checked a golf ball is a golf ball . No matter what it's made out of It's the same size , or it's not a golf ball .
I remember keeping that newspaper from that day as a 15 year old thinking, "this is something that isn't supposed to happen". Yes, I was and still am a huge aviation geek. Also, remember newspapers? I kinda miss them, like the video stores; too many choices these days makes it hard to pick. Sorry, random, I know.
Today's missiles are probably not guided by radar, but by WiFi over the cloud using PHP and Laravel, so all you need to do to disable them is to cut off the Internet.
Serbs put up their granny's TV antennas and detected F117 with them. LOL.
He is the older version of Mark Rober
The one 117 was shoot down because it had its bomb bay doors open..
Now I want to be in the air force
The Gulf War showed the war of the information age. It was not only the war of precision-guided missiles/bombs.
It was also the war of information processing, such as stealth, ECM, GPS, PAR/SAR, thermal imager, or FCS.
The war of the AI age will be more bloodless for good or bad, but it is unpredictable because civilization is an adding process.
I hope new techs & policies will also decrease the sacrifice, cost, and risk of war. https://19084.mitemin.net/i400786/
Thank you.
Military Industrial Complex approved video
The F-117 was in already operational in 1983, not 1988…
Was chatting to a friend today…we came to the conclusion that a Sopwith Camel would have bugger all heat signature or radar cross section.
David's options for shirts: loud, louder, loudest :0) (A very relevant and constructive remark indeed, I'm so aware of my added value here ;0))
If I understand that correctly, the F 35 pilots don't really see "through" the metal floor of their bird of course, there are sensors around the plane, and moving the helmet in that direction activates these cameras, isn't that the way it should be put ?
The B-2 Bomber is in a class of its own and will always be! It’s also the most beautiful aircraft!
I was on a USN Destroyer off the coast of Yugoslavia during this time. My rate was Fire Control and I spent a lot of time staring at a radar screen. I cannot imagine what warfare would be like without radar. My radar could track the individual engines on a passenger jet with ease and most military jets showed up just fine. I do not know if we ever got a track on a stealth fighter.
I hope the Stealth fashion ends soon (due new radars or detection methods or whatever), and return to the best aerodynamics shapes of 4th generation.
Stealth planes are black
Plane: fly too low
80 years old AA guns: It’s free real target
(probs to anyone who can shoot a jet down with normal AA)
Stealth is one half of the technology that has transformed air warfare. The two scenarios in the first two minutes both presumed that the bombers in each were delivering four smart bombs. Smart bombs and smart artillery shells are the other, equally important factor that has completely transformed warfare, especially air-to-ground warfare.
with a shirt like that its a perfect target
So advanced that one got catched by a stinger hand-lunched in Jugoslavia in the '90
Apparently…….. British scientists have been developing stealth camouflage for armoured vehicles and have even been testing it….
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but wouldnt a golfball sized object on the radar, moving at mach 1 and 10 km flying altitude be pretty suspicious? the guys sitting at the radar know that these stealth planes exist and can probably tell that its one, no?
Thanks for another great video Paul!
how can p-51's fly at the same speed as an F-22? or an F-22 fly as slow as a p-51?
particularly like that shirt. (and of course all your videos). Do you ever wear any Joe Browns shirts? there was a particularly colourful purple one in the recent magazine they sent out to us. Though, purple may not be a colour you like, I haven't seen you wear one yet, in my as yet limited perusal of your videos (that is slowly but surely changing).
4 JDAM's on a single B-1B? those are truly rookie numbers.
Those terrorists are so happy to shot down F-117. The only one thing their country can be proud off, the second is war crimes. Pathetic.
what was "the first and second Gulf Wars"? Asks an Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm veteran.
FYI, by combining various radar cross signatures, enemies and put together the "flocks of fast flying birds" into an aircraft.
Bonus fact, when first testing the radar signature of stealth tech on a fixed platform, it was thought that it didn't work as well as expected. Until they realized that the fixed platform was producing the radar image and they had to "stealth" the platform too.
I remember touching one of these as a teenager when I wasn't supposed to. It felt like Cardbord paper
So. Much. Weasely. Spam.
Considering recent development surrounding the F15 vs F35-challenge and the demise of the Zumwalt class, it's fair to state that this video didn't age well.
There is also the issue that most "stealth" aircraft are only stealthy radar wise at specific frequency bands. Not only that but the Typhoon han fly so much higher than the F-35 for example that the IRST will detect the F-35 to enable a shot before the F-35 can get one off. Do it at night and the Meteor will be at the F-35 before it can fire.
A video I would like to see, is an in-depth analysis of the efficiency of stealth. As far as I can understand, planes with stealth are vulnerable to different wavelengths of radar. The obvious answer would be to build a dedicated anti-stealth radar. Is this a genuine possibility or is it just avgeek talk?
Serbs also say they hit a b2 stealth and it crash landed in Bosnia
So the plane is not obsolete…it was pilot error….its a possibility it can still be used..JUST CLOSED THE DAMN DOORS
Colonel Dale Zelko: Stealth technolgy alone is not the magic answer
In the 90s they stole taxpayer money with the invisible promise, real life proves them wrong, they keep the money.
In the 2000s the stole the taxpayer money with the drones. What happend to stealth? You promised it's worth the money and now you want MORE money for drones?
Read Eisenhower speech denouncing "The military – industrial complex"
B-2 spirit was also shot by Serbs, but fell in Croatia.
Considering how old the F-117 was, it seems like the Serbs had to do everything perfect and still have a little luck just to shoot one down.