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Subject: Re: Russia's Next Fighter Might Have a New Way to Shoot Down F-22s and F-35s
From: Mitchell Holman <noemail@verizont.net>
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Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
news:pkn1p301ihb@drn.newsguy.com:
> more at
> https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russias-next-fighter-might-have-
> new-way-shoot-down-f-22s-and-f-35s-28497
>
> The Russians are not the first to start developing photonic radars. An
> Italian funded project called PHOtonic-based full DIgital Radar
> (PHODIR) developed the first fully photonics-based coherent radar
> system in 2014. A photonic radar replaces the traditional electronic
> circuits of conventional radars with lasers, optical filters and
> photodiodes to generate very precise, high-quality radio frequency
> objects like conventional systems, the laser allows it to pulse highly
> tuned frequencies in a broad emission band from the tens of megahertz
> Electric press statement.
>
> generation unmanned aircraft could be equipped with what is described
I am utterly naive in these things, but what is
point of developing more and better fighters? Ever
since Vietnam they have been little more than missle
delivery platforms. Even the 1981 faceoff between
Gaddafi's Su 22's vs Reagan's F-14s over the Gulf of
Sidra was just airframes lobbing missles at each other.
All the classic use of fighters - bomber escort,
attacking bombers, control of airspace, ground attack,
recon - has either become irrelevant or replaced by
satellites and drones. Beyond the needs of a defense
industry trying to make itself relevant is there likely
to be any "winner" in this competition?
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