Thoughts on potential and development

[Matt308]

High powered AESA radars that allow spoofing, intrusion, data mining, information transfer and narrow beam EMP that either disables or destroys electronics.

Netcentric communications with UCAVs that allowing swarming techniques to overwhelm ground sensors, SAMs, and targets.

[HealzDevo]

Still the whole point is that stealth strikes and attacks may have been an even bigger advantage when the naval F-117 was proposed due to the fact that an aircraft carrier moves around and it is harder to get a lock on these aircraft, thus it means that it is harder for the enemy to simply follow your aircraft on radar and then destroy the carrier. Strike, return and you are hard to track. This was 1980s right through to 1994 that this project was ongoing. It was only the airforce that killed the F-117 project by threatening the F-22 Raptor project that destroyed any chance this great aircraft had. It should have been in service as the start of a naval upgrade but it has died. Naval aviation is only just beginning to catch up with Stealth which the airforce has had since October 1983. With the naval versions of the F-117 project at least the strike capability would have caught up with land...

[FLYBOYJ]

Originally Posted by HealzDevo

Still the whole point is that stealth strikes and attacks may have been an even bigger advantage when the naval F-117 was proposed due to the fact that an aircraft carrier moves around and it is harder to get a lock on these aircraft, thus it means that it is harder for the enemy to simply follow your aircraft on radar and then destroy the carrier. Strike, return and you are hard to track. This was 1980s right through to 1994 that this project was ongoing. It was only the airforce that killed the F-117 project by threatening the F-22 Raptor project that destroyed any chance this great aircraft had. It should have been in service as the start of a naval upgrade but it has died. Naval aviation is only just beginning to catch up with Stealth which the airforce has had since October 1983. With the naval versions of the F-117 project at least the strike capability would have caught up with land...

I don't know where you're coming up with this stuff but once again someone is dreaming. The F-117 could carry only 2 bombs - the US Navy didn't want it based on the bomb loads and capabilities of aircraft currently in use. There was no ongoing Navy F-117 program, I worked at Lockheed through the 80s and was at one time on the program. The F-22 was conceived and developed under an entirely different specification and program - its an air-to-air fighter!!!!

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Woh the enemy is going to know where that carrier is no matter what Healz. Where do you come up with this Sci Fi stuff?