alt Hacker NewsAn aircraft doesn’t need to be modern - it needs to shot down the other before it gets shot down.
And, as we have seen with cheap drones, all that money spent on making great stealth aircraft has not stopped Iran from blocking access to 20% of the world’s supply of crude.
So, how effective are your fifth generation fighters based on your nuclear carriers again?
> An aircraft doesn’t need to be modern - it needs to shot down the other before it gets shot down.
Frontal RCS of the Gripen C/D between 0.1 m2 and 1.5 m2
Frontal Radar Cross-Section (RCS) of the F-35 roughly between 0.001 m2 and 0.005 m2
Gripen is an old airframe useless in modern combat. It will be shot down from far away.