Why is the US the only country to invest and produce stealth aircraft no other country has a frontline aircraft with stealth the US has 4 so what is going on with the other countries?

[edit on 25-6-2004 by John bull 1]

That might not be true. Maybe other countrys just hide it better than the US. :O

or like always, we got the dough they dont.

but i most likly think that they hide it beta than us.

we dont want to hide it they dont have it or we here on ATS would at least know something but nothing which leads to one conclusion they dont got nothing.

[edit on 23-6-2004 by WestPoint23]

This came up in the Weaponry forum. Stealth is detectable to the older radar technology, which requires cooperation between two stations. It is likely that militaries have modified theirs systems to work in this way and detect stealth aircraft, and if they have not already, they easily could.
The major advantage to stealth is only that they are protected from the radar guidance of missiles.

has it done any good to the russians no it hasnt so it dosent concern me.

Originally posted by WestPoint23
Why is the US the only country to invest and produce stealth aircraft no other country has a frontline aircraft with stealth the US has 4 so what is going on with the other countries?

I'm not sure if this is 100% true. The USA is the only country with a KNOWN stealth program. Go to the ATS main page and also do some Googling, you will find that the UK and the Russian also have stealth research programs. There are even some unconfirmed rumors that one or even both of these counties have steath (or adleast stealthy) aircraft. We know that the Russians were already working on stealth technology in the 1980's. The CIA even worked with a Soviet Scientist named Tokachof? (correct spelling unkown) who was a specialist in stealth in the 1970's-'80's, until the Soviet government executed him as a traitor after former CIA officer Aldrich Ames, sold his name to the Soviets in part of what became the worst Case of treason in modern US history.

My point is, if they were working on the technology, it is reasonable to assume that the Russians might also have some working stealth technology, even if they don't have the money to deploy them. Remember: Just becaus you have heard of it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist!

Tim
ATS Director of Counter-Ignorance

Gee, maybe the other Countries aren't stealing Alien information. Or jostling those poor cute little creatures around, such as overtaking thier crashed UFOs and harboring them in some uncivilized hangar just to get their secrets. Hm. Yea right. The US has it all down pat don't they?

Originally posted by WestPoint23
has it done any good to the russians no it hasnt so it dosent concern me.

i never done nothing bad for them ethier
they only fell cause of money

Actually, when the US was making their first gen stealth aircraft (F-117), west Germany was also working on an aircraft using the same theory of deflection of radar by flat surfaces.

Russia claims to have plasma stealth, though the US is working on this also, and England had a tech demonstrator that uses RAM as well as computer generated modeling for the aircrafts shape (much like the B-2, F/A-22, and JSF)

so you spend money making something and you dont use it great idea

the stealth on the tornado is equal to the stealth of a B-52

Originally posted by WestPoint23
so you spend money making something and you dont use it great idea

YEAH have you ever heard of the Canadian Avro Arrow...best damb fighter built but never deployed!

the avro haha the Canadians must be pissed the us actually convinced the Canadians they did not need the avro

the avro did not have stealth capabilities it was a fast supersonic fighter and interceptor but not sure if it had stealth I don't think it did.