S-500: How Russia Plans to Kill F-22 and F-35 Stealth Fighters in a War?
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On another note, US anti-air capabilities are already far behind the S-400. I understand we don’t have an immediate use case ourselves, but the lack of a credible AA system pushes potential partners like India and Turkey to fight with us for the right to buy the S-400.
Stealth has been obsolete for over 20 years, ever since the Serbs brought down that F117.
But go broke in the stealth vs stealth-detection war, if you desire. It's not as if there are better uses for that money, anyway.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4452474-F-22A-Produc...
I presume drones did this anyway.
The point of putting a human in theatre is that the situation is volatile--you don't yet know if the target is something you want to take out.
If you really want to take something out, I presume drone saturation is far less expensive.