There are several ways to “kill” stealth aircraft, in particular, the fifth generation fighters F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II, writes The National Interest.
The American magazine discloses that the stealth plane can be detected using radar operating in the centimeter wavelength range. The publication notes the low accuracy of determining the coordinates of the location of an unobtrusive target using this method. According to the magazine, Russian over-the-horizon short-wave radars (Podsolnukh) short-range radar stations may have such capabilities.
Other methods of detecting the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II, as the newspaper writes, can be the use of infrared search and tracking technology Infrared Search and Track (IRST), the presence of operational vulnerabilities in stealth aircraft, for example, carrying weapons outside the internal compartments, and close one-on-one air combat with a comparable adversary, in particular, the Russian fifth-generation Su-57 fighter.
The last way to “kill” a stealth plane is called its high cost. The publication reminds that one B-2 Spirit strategic bomber, along with equipment and weapons, costs the Pentagon about two billion dollars.
In January, the acting US Secretary of Defense (November 9, 2020 to January 20, 2021) Christopher Miller, during a press conference, called the F-35 Lightning II program a piece of crap.
In October 2019, Kirill Makarov, Director General of the Scientific Research Institute (SRI) for Long-Range Radio Communication, announced that Russia had deployed the Sunflower radar station in the Far East, the Caspian Sea and the Baltic.
