(Luft) Lockheed Martin F-35 - Lightning II

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um mal wieder in die gleiche Kerbe zu schlagen ;-)

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Did China Just Render America's $1 Trillion Stealth Fighter Program Obsolete? (excerpt)

Over-budget, behind schedule, and -- reportedly -- not a particularly good fighter jet, Lockheed Martin's ultramodern Joint Strike Fighter may be destined for the scrap heap.

In a 2013 RAND Corporation report, one of the nation's foremost military analysts, blasted the F-35 for being a fighter that "can't turn, can't climb, can't run." Proponents of the F-35 reply that because it's stealthy, it shouldn't have to do any of those things -- lobbing missiles at its foes from over the horizon, and long before they can even see it.

Unfortunately, it turns out that the F-35 may not do the "invisibility" thing very well, either.

As DefenseNews.com recently revealed, China has a new device that may be able to track Lockheed's F-35 fighter with "passive" radar detection technology. Dubbed the DWL002, China's equipment can apparently detect stealth aircraft at distances of up to 400 kilometers -- and 600 kilometers for larger "stealth" targets -- processing "pulse, frequency agility, pulse duration, tactical air navigation system, distance measuring equipment, jitter/stagger radar, and identification friend or foe" signals emitted by the otherwise stealthy aircraft to determine its location.

To be clear, DWL002 is not an active radar system itself. As International Assessment and Strategy Center senior fellow Richard Fisher explains "Passive systems like these simply listen for any electronic emission," identifying an aircraft without having to ping it with an active radar transmitter. As such, whether or not the F-35 is itself invisible to "radar" may be a moot point.

China can "see" it anyway. (end of excerpt)

ja...ich weiß....jetzt kommt wieder die Argumentation.... "stimmt ja gar nicht...und selbst wenn....die F35 kann ja viel viel mehr und ist ja im Prinzip erstmal ein fliegender Sensor" :lol:

wenn die Chinesen nun wirklich eine F35 auf 400km aufspüren können....dann ist meiner Meinung nach das ganze Konzept hinfällig...
da es bzgl. aller anderer relevanter Leistungsparameter (Geschwindigkeit, Wendigkeit, Reichweite, Zuladung, Sensorperformance, Preis, Unterhalt,....) bessere Konzepte gibt!

letztendlich wäre es dann besser eine Awacs Variante der C295 mit 20 Meteor Raketen zu bestücken und diese zusätzlich mit aktiven Abwehrmaßnahmen auszurüsten (RAM Launcher oder Phalanx :-P )... das wäre effektiver und günstiger ;-)