Originally Posted by
Anvil Kasseri
While detecting the presence of a stealth fighter is better than nothing, it isn't terribly useful if you can't detect its position accurately enough to guide an anti-aircraft missile to it.
And VHF radar is not accurate enough to guide an anti-aircraft missile to a target.
More importantly, while VHF radar can detect the presence of something as small as a stealth fighter, it has no ability to detect something as large as a stealth bomber.
If US warplanes were penetrating Chinese airspace, they would not be stealth fighters. They would be stealth bombers.
Hopefully though both sides will show restraint and there will never be such a war.
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