Can Russia and China Detect the F-35 Stealth Aircraft?

The 500mph seagull, must be an F-35.

"sorry we didn't know it was invisible" The Enemy

Stealth isn’t about not being seen. It’s about seeing the enemy before they see you.

As a former ECM (Electronic Counter Measures) Detection & Jamming Technician you have presented this information Very Well. In war or otherwise their are a few battlefields most people know about and a few they don't know about. They are the Air Battlefield & Ground Battlefield these are the ones most people know about and see on the news. The others are the Electronic Warfare Battlefield, the Cyber Battlefield and soon the Space Platforms Battlefield. Radars are in both the Air and the Electronic Battlefields and soon the Space Battlefield. The only short coming of these systems is that in a time of war, in order to get around them or deny their use we do one or more of the following things: 1. Jam them. Use the radars frequency at high power and feed it back into the system. They are some really cool electronics that do this and most nations have them. The process of how it's done by each nation is highly classified to prevent an enemy from finding a weakness to the electronic process. 2. Deceive them. Electronically manipulate them to make the screen move the actual target to another part of their radar screen. So if they shoot a missile it goes to where the tracking system says it is rather than where it really is. 3. False target them. Electronically manipulate them to flood the screen with hundreds if not thousands of targets to deny them effect use of it. They could shoot all their missiles and still not hit a thing. At that point they usually turn them off or they become a target themselves. Radar signals can be tracked both ways! 4. Destroy them. Prior to an operation we send out teams of either aircraft or personnel to detect and mark the location of them.Then we jam them and send in missiles to lock onto their location and track the source back to the antenna or command center and blow it up. This is done with stealth aircraft, for hard sites we use cruise missiles or Special Ops teams. Iraq's "Shock and Awe" was part of step 4's process. Part of the detection process is to fly into a restricted area forcing them to turn them on so we can find and destroy them. Most nations are familiar with the process so the best effective counter measure is to use mobile platforms and only turn the radars on when it's absolutely necessary for that particular area. If they turn them on before it's necessary we locate them and take them out. It's a cat and mouse game, like snipers hunting snipers in a jungle. That's why spy satellites are so important as they are used to track their location and possibly jam them as needed. Or even sneakier put or false reading to force them to turn on the radar making is location known. You should do another video on these subjects. Thanks for the nice video. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya

A10: if you hear the brrrt, you're not the target. F35: If you see it in radar, you're not the target.

I thought that the Serbs who shot down the F117 also knew from previous flights from Italy when and where the 117 was going to arrive.

Well I can see it with my naked eyes, who needs radar

All planes can be detected (except MH370) it's a question of who can detect who first...big advantage

Any aircraft is detectable. The question is "At what range?". Just as Castle Defense was in a race with siege machines and tactics, so too will "stealth" be in a race with target acquisition technology. If all players have similar targeting prowess, those with the smaller RCS and thermal signature will rule the day. "First shot, first splash". No getting around it. All modern fighter aircraft are limited by the biological 9G limit. Even if that were not the case, no aircraft can endure the 20G turns of a AAM.

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Short answer: yes Long answer: To an extent... any country could potentially detect it

Russia has a pasiv location systems similary like Tamara and Vera-NG. They can locate all stealth plane if the plane use radio or SAT comunication or radar, radio altitudemeter. atc.

Not many people realize this, but civilian air control radars with their long wavelength and massive dishes can effortlessly detect F-35/F-22/J-20/J-31. They just aren't precise enough to create a weapon lock. One way around this is combining long wavelength and tightly beamed short wavelength radars, the long wavelength radar would find the general location, while short wavelength beam zooms in on it for weapon lock. There's also another approach that's arguably more effective specifically against F-35: combining long wavelength radar with infrared. Long wavelength radar would find the general location and send the missile there, when within visual range, infrared sensor on the nose of the missile takes over and homes in. This approach works due to a design flaw in F-35 that's not present in F-22/J-20/J31: extremely hot engine exhaust. Rather than using 2 cooler running engines, Lockheed Martin pushed one engine way past reasonable threshold for its size in order to produce enough thrust for the overweight F-35. During normal cruise, F-35 leaves a hot tail that lights up like a beacon in the sky, comparable to typical fighters with afterburners on. It's not something that can be fixed without a complete redesign.

im sure a Russian with 20/20 vision can detect it, might be a little harder for the Chinese... lol

best video ive seen in a long time.. straight to point plus a ton of knowledge -- respect man

I want my enemies to severely underestimate my assets.

There’s nothing that cannot be detected. Especially as big as a jet.

The F-35 also uses active stealth technology to further reduce the possibility of detection. These systems are turned off during peace time, however, so that potential adversaries aren't able to precisely determine how well they can detect the aircraft.

I was a radar specialist in the Army for my first mos. We used all types from sentinels to q36s, and i could pick up a damn seagal if i wanted to. Its about reducing the signature so you can fly around it.

Really informative video, to the point and without the fluff, subbed!