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Semis Make Stealth F 35 Obsolete and the "Geat Acceleration"

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Arthur Hanson

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Due to improvements and advancements in radar, stealth is rapidly becoming obsolete. The semi industry has not only speeded up its products, but made possible far faster advancement in numerous other products. The F 35 is a ultra expensive plane not only to buy, but to maintain and will be totally obsolete by the time its deployed. The "Great Acceleration" mandates that the useful life of products and technologies is rapidly shrinking and must constantly taken into account. This mandates that the greatly reduced economic and technological life or processes and devices is greatly reduced and must be taken into account on any purchase or project. Our government has become highly insulated from this and the F 35 is but one very, very expensive example. All individuals, companies, governments and society in general will have to adapt to this or fail before those that do adapt. This is why many devices and procedures don't have to be built for a long life span for they will rendered obsolete first.
This is why high speed automated, adaptive learning will be the key to the future for much knowledge will have a shorter and shorter half life. This will also require a much closer, intimate relationship with the technology around us to keep up. Semis and nanotechnology are the keys to this new world.

PS For reference I did research on low frequency, burst radar and talked to a top jet fighter senior mechanic/technician.

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Latest cost on this fiasco, 379 billion even before sky high maintenance and operational costs

If current off the shelf radar can pick it up right now, it will stick out like a sore thumb five years from now. Current stealth technology will be all but dead in just a few years. Just imagine, who uses a five year old computer or cell phone?
 
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The UK's 30 MHz WW2 Chain-Home radar would have detected the F-35 as well. But that wasn't a very compact system unlike the ones discussed here, I guess.

I'm no Luddite, but I suspect that Pierre Sprey is correct and that all the F-35 money would have been better spent on lots of faster, more agile, simpler updated F-16s and A-10s. But, unlike Mr Sprey, I would put a radar in them ...
 
I had a report from a highly respected source that I knew well personally that the Israelis developed a very inexpensive method of detecting stealth aircraft over twenty years ago when they first came out. It involved off the shelf parts. From the little I know, it seemed to be a relatively short range device, but at extremely low cost.
 
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