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2015-08-13 Science & Technology

So How Hard Is It to Shoot Down a Stealth Bomber?

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-08-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Ah..flak box. Area saturation. Let it flying into the fuselage and engine degrading crap. You don't have to knock it down, just ding it up enough that its aerodynamics render it no longer capable of performing its flight profile.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-08-13 00:12|| 2015-08-13 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Throw up a volcanic plume...

Ash is bad for engines.

Posted by Skidmark 2015-08-13 03:06|| 2015-08-13 03:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Shoot it with AK-47?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-08-13 05:43|| 2015-08-13 05:43|| Front Page Top

#4 The article notably doesn't mention that it has been done. Serbia.
(1) Targeting routers get lazy, keep using know ingress /egress paths. (It's safer, easier.)
(2) Russian trained SAM package commander notices this. Sends launcher unit to sit under one, orders to conceal and sit tight.
(3) When their intel sees a F117 unit leave on a know profile, message is sent.
(4) Launcher unit is profiled for known altitude, heat seek only. When they hear the jet, they elevate. When they see the contrail in the starry sky, they fire and haul ass.
(5) Wreckage on nightly news.

Posted by ed in texas 2015-08-13 07:32|| 2015-08-13 07:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, you come in low, way low! Jumping and jiggering, a good pilot a real good pilot would make it th...... zzz HELL YES! HE COULD DO IT!

Posted by Shipman 2015-08-13 18:47|| 2015-08-13 18:47|| Front Page Top

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